Trikala

Trikala is a city in northwestern Thessaly, Greece, and the capital of the Trikala regional unit. The metropolis straddles the Lithaios river, that's a tributary of Pineios. According to the Greek National Statistical Service, Trikala is populated with the aid of 81,355 inhabitants 2011, even as in total the Trikala nearby unit is populated by 131,0.5 population 2011. The area of Trikala has been inhabited in view that prehistoric times. The first indications of permanent agreement have been uncovered within the cave of Theopetra, and date back to approx. 49,000 BC.

Neolithic settlements relationship lower back to 6,000 BC have been exposed in Megalo Kefalovriso and different places. The city of Trikala is built on the historical city of Trikka or Trikke, which become based across the third millennium BC and took its name from the nymph Trikke, daughter of Penaeus, or consistent with others, daughter of the river god Asopus. The historic city become built at a shielding region in between the neighborhood hill and the river Lithaios.

The town have become an critical middle in antiquity and it become considered to be the birthplace and predominant residence of the healing god Asclepius. The city exhibited one of the maximum vital and historic of Asclepius' healing temples, known as asclepieia. The city is referred to in Homer's Iliad as having participated within the Trojan War with thirty ships beneath Asclepius' sons Machaon and Podalirius. In the Mycenean length, the city turned into the capital of a nation, and later it constituted the principle middle of the Thessalian area of Estaiotis, which occupied more or less the territory of the current Trikala Prefecture.