Larissa

Larissa (called by the Turks Yenisher), famous in ancient times as the chief town of Thessaly, is now a place of 13,169 inhabitants, one-third Greeks and one-third Turks. Larissa was ceded by Turkey to Greece in 1881. It stands on the Salambria (anc. Peneus), in the fertile plain of Thessaly, and has manufactures of silk, cotton, and tobacco. It was the centre of the Turkish operations in the war of Greek Liberation, and was occupied by the Turks in the war of 1897.