Nostimo, Kastoria

Nostimo (Νόστιμο) Kastoria

Nostimo is a mountainous settlement of the Municipality of Orestidos in the Region of Western Macedonia (Kallikratis Program). From 1999 to 2010 according to the then administrative division of Greece it belonged to the Municipality of Argos Orestiko. Until 1927 it was called Nistimion, when it was first renamed Koufoxylia and then Nostimo. [1] [2] and at the 2001 census had 115 inhabitants.

Location

It is located at the southern end of the prefecture on the border with the prefecture of Kozani at an altitude of 920m and is 15 km from Argos Orestiko and 27 km from Kastoria.
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hronicle of exploration
The Museum of Fossils in Nostimo Kastoria

In 1935 a resident of the area, mining lignite, discovered the existence of fossilized trunks and marine fossils. Sixty years later, Evangelos Velitzelos, a professor of paleontology at the University of Athens, is making his first visit to the area, and excavations officially begin in June 1997. The researchers brought to light the fossil forest aged 27-23 million years. Specialists come to this conclusion after many years of scientific documentation of the findings dating back to pre-human times in the first period of the New Age [3] [4] such as shark teeth, mussels, stars, shells, snails, tropical and subtropical species. excellent fossilization.

Photos

Shark Tooth (Megalodonton)

Shell

Fossilized trunk

References

Receiver renaming of the settlements of Greece, Nistimion-Koufoxylia
Pandektis Name changes of settlements of Greece, Koufoxylia-Nostimo
The History of the Humanity of UNESCO Volume 1 s.Cenozoic Century

Live-Pedia.gr Centennial [dead link]

External links

Museum of Palaeontology and Paleo-Botanical Tasting of Kastoria
The fossil forest of Delicious Kastoria
Fossil Forest Museum of Nostimos-Kastoria [dead link]

Municipal unit Argos Orestiko
Municipal Community Argos Orestiko
Argos Orestiko (Άργος Ορεστικό, το)
Kremasto (Κρεμαστό, το)
Community Agios Ilias
Agios Ilias (Άγιος Ηλίας, ο)
Community Ammoudara
Ammoudara (Αμμουδάρα, η)
Ampelochori (Αμπελοχώρι, το)
Votani (Βοτάνι, το)
Community Asprokklisia
Asprokklisia (Ασπροκκλησιά, η)
Asproneri (Ασπρονέρι, το)
Community Vrachos
Vrachos (Βράχος, ο)
Community Dialekto
Velos (Βέλος, το)
Dialekto (Διαλεκτό, το)
Community Kastanofyto
Ano Perivoli (Άνω Περιβόλι, το)
Kastanofyto (Καστανόφυτο, το)
Community Lagka
Λάγκα, η
Community Lakkomata
Krya Nera (Κρύα Νερά, τα)
Lakkomata (Λακκώματα, τα)
Lachanokipoi (Λαχανόκηποι, οι)
Community Melanthi
Melanthio (Μελάνθι, το)
Νίκη, η
Petropoulaki (Πετροπουλάκι, το)
Community Nostimo
Nostimo (Νόστιμο, το)
Community Spilaia
Zevgostasi (Ζευγοστάσι, το)
Spilaia (Σπήλαια, τα)
Community Spilios
Anthiro (Ανθηρό, το)
Kerasona (Κερασώνα, η)
Spilios (Σπήλιος, ο)

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