Trikala

Trikala is a city in northwestern Thessaly, Greece, and the capital of the Trikala regional unit. The Lithaios River, a tributary of the Pineios, runs through it, and the city lies close to the monasteries of Meteora and the southern Pindus mountains. It is built on the ancient city of Trikka, said to have been founded around the third millennium BC and named for the nymph Trikke. In the fourteenth century the city served as the seat of a Serbian court, and under the Ottomans it was the administrative centre of a sanjak with large Muslim and Jewish communities. It passed to Greece with the rest of Thessaly in 1881. The 2021 count gave the city 62,064 inhabitants and the wider municipality 78,605.