Municipality of Argos

The Municipality of Argos was a municipality of Argolis prefecture which was established by the Kapodistrias Plan from the merging of older communities of the area, which later formed the municipal districts of the municipality. The municipality operated in the period 1999-2010 when it was abolished with the implementation of Kallikratis Plan and joined the new municipality Argos-Mykines as municipal unit. It was located in the northwest of the prefecture and covered a large part of the Argolic plain, up to the mountain Artemisio. It bordered with the municipalities of Koutsopodi, Lyrkeia, Midea, Lerna, Mycenae, Nea Kios and the community of Achladokampos. The municipality had a population of 29,228 inhabitants according to the 2001 census and was the largest municipality in population of Argolida. The seat of the municipality was Argos.

Municipality of Argos
Δήμος Άργους
Municipality of Argos is located in Greece
Municipality of Argos
Municipality of Argos
Municipal Unit of Argos
Coordinates: 37°37′N 22°43′E
CountryGreece
Administrative regionPeloponnese
Regional unitArgolis
MunicipalityArgos-Mykines
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

The former municipality and current municipal unit, is subdivided into the following communities and their respective settlements.

Community of Argos
Community of Dalamanara
  • Dalamanara
Community of Elliniko
  • Kryoneri
  • Elliniko
  • Zogka
  • Krya Vrysi
  • Tourniki
Community of Ira
  • Ira
Community of Inachos
  • Inachos
  • Tristrato
Community of Kefalari
Community of Kourtaki
  • Kourtaki
Community of Lalouka
  • Lalouka
Community of Pyrgella
  • Pyrgela


Ancient sites

  • Kechries or Cenchreae
  • Larissa
  • Timenio

Mayors of Argos

The municipality was established in 1834 and operated till 1914 and again since 1925 till 2010 when it was abolished. During 1914-1925, it was downgraded into community, due to having less than 10,000 population. Before the Kapodistrias reform in 1997, municipality of Argos contained only the community of Argos. First mayor was Hristos Vlassis.[1]


  • 1834-1838 Hristos Vlassis
  • 1838-1841, 1852-1855 Konstantinos Vokos
  • 1841-1848 Georgios Tsokris
  • 1848-1852 Konstantinos Rodopoulos
  • 1855-1858 Ioannis Vlassis (and congressman)
  • 1858-1861 Petros Divanis (doctor)
  • 1861-1866 Lambros Lambrinidis
  • 1866-1870 Mihail Pashalinopoulos
  • 1870-1874, 1879-1883 Mihail Papalexopoulos (doctor, congressman, governor)
  • 1874-1875, 1883-1891, 1893-1899 Spilios Kalmouhos
  • 1891-1893 Haralambos Mistakopoulos (1830-1894, died in office)
  • 1899-1903 Emmanouil Roussos (doctor)
  • 1903-1907 Dimitrios P. Kouzis (1870-1958) (senator and congressman)
  • 1907-1914 Andreas Karatzas (lawyer)
  • 1917-1918 Hristos Karagiannis (president of Argos Community)
  • 1925-22 January 1928 Aggelis Bobos (1878-1928) merchant, (died in office)
  • 1928-1941 Konstantinos Bobos (merchant). He succeeded his brother Angelis.
  • 1941-1943 Efthimios Smirniotatkis (lawyer)
  • 1943-1944 Georgios Papagiannopoulos (lawyer)
  • 1944-1945 Konstantinos Dorovinis (dentist)
  • ...
  • 1951-1964 Efstathios Marinos (1902-1990)
  • 1964-1967 Georgios Thomopoulos (1906-1995)
  • 1967-1973 Theodoros Polihronopoulos
  • 1973-1974[2] Marios Presvelos
  • 1974-1975 (appointment by the government of national unity)
  • 1975-1978 Dimitrios Bonis
  • 1979-1986[3] Georgios Peirounis (1926-1999)
  • 1987-1998 Dimitrios Papanikolaou (1937-2017)
  • 1999-2002 Nikolaos Koligliatis
  • 2003-2006 Dimitrios Platis
  • 2007-2010 Vasileios Bouris

References
  1. "Δήμαρχοι του Άργους (1834–1951)". Argolikos Archival Library Of History And Culture (in Greek). Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  2. "Δημοτικές εκλογές και δήμαρχοι στο Άργος το 19ο και 20ο αιώνα". Argolikos Archival Library Of History And Culture (in Greek). Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  3. "Αποτελέσματα δημοτικών εκλογών". EETAA (in Greek). Retrieved 6 August 2021.
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