Makrysi (Greek: Μακρύσι, before 1927: Σιάλεσι - Sialesi[1]) is a village and a community in the municipality of Megalopoli, Arcadia, Greece. It is situated on a hillside on the left bank of the river Elissonas, at 496 m elevation. It is 3 km northwest of Mallota and 3 km northeast of Megalopoli town centre. The community consists of the villages Makrysi and Kato Makrysi. Kato Makrysi is situated at 450 m elevation. Zacharias Barbitsiotis, an anti-Ottoman insurgent defeated the Turks in Sialesi in the 1780s.
[edit] Historical population
| Year |
Total population |
Makrysi |
Kato Makrysi |
| 1981 |
- |
153 |
- |
| 1991 |
190 |
79 |
111 |
| 2001 |
172 |
53 |
119 |
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