Rapsani

Community in Greece

Rapsani Ραψάνη
Community

39°54′N 22°33′E / 39.900°N 22.550°E / 39.900; 22.550
Country	Greece
Administrative region	Thessaly
Regional unit	Larissa
Municipality	Tempi
Municipal unit	Kato Olympos
Population (2021)^[1]
• Community	505
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Rapsani (Greek: Ραψάνη) is a town of the former municipal district of Kato Olympos, which is part of the municipality of Tempi in the Larissa regional unit, Thessaly, Greece.

Rapsani is sited at an altitude of 600 meters. The location of Peneus river at the level of the station Rapsani is a scenic landscape. The town is close (5 km) from a station that bears the same name.

History

The settlement is recorded as village and as "Rapşani" in the Ottoman Tahrir Defter number 101 dating to 1521.^[2]

References

^ "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
^ Ünal, Uğur; Budak, Mustafa; Bayram, Sabahattin; Yıldıztaş, Mümin (2013). Özkılınç, Ahmet; Coşkun, Ali; Sivridağ, Abdullah (eds.). Osmanlı Yer Adları: I - RUMELİ EYALETİ (1514-1550) (in Turkish). Ankara, Türkiye. p. 714. ISBN 9789751962386.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)