Magnesia (regional unit)

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Magnesia is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Thessaly. Its capital is the city of Volos. About 70% of the population of Magnesia live in the Greater Volos area, which is the second-largest city in Thessaly and the third busiest commercial port in Greece.

Pagasetic Gulf

Pelion

Volos

Milies

Thessaly

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Thessaly is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thessaly was known as Aeolia, and appears thus in Homer's Odyssey.

The first ancient theatre of Larissa. It was constructed inside the ancient city's centre during the reign of Antigonus II Gonatas towards the end of the 3rd century BC. The theatre was in use for six centuries, until the end of the 3rd century AD

Part of the Byzantine castle of Trikala

View of the Panagia Olympiotissa Monastery in Elassona

"The Hyperian Fountain at Pherae", during the Ottoman era, by Edward Dodwell.