Lárisa,
also Larissa, city in
eastern Greece, capital
of Lárisa Department.
The city lies in the
heart of the wide and
fertile plain of Thessaly,
which is watered by
the Piniós River.
Lárisa is a busy
railroad and trading
center for an agricultural
region that produces
fruit, wheat, vegetables,
and tobacco. Its limited
industrial enterprises
produce silk, sugar,
and ouzo, an anise-flavored
liqueur. Home to Hippocrates,
often called the father
of medicine, and the
poet Pindar, Lárisa
ranked as a leading
city of ancient Thessaly.
It changed hands repeatedly;
the Romans, and later
the Ottomans, ruled
the longest. A 1941
earthquake and German
occupation during World
War II left the city
heavily damaged. Population
113,090 (1991).
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