Paliki ( Greek : Παλική ) is a peninsula and a former municipality on the island of Kefalonia , Ionian Islands , Greece . At the 2011 local government reform it became part of the municipality Kefalonia . In 2019 this municipality was divided into three municipalities, and the municipal unit Paliki became the only municipal unit of the new municipality Lixouri . The municipal unit has an area of 119.341 km. The name comes from the ancient town of Pale/Pali, which was north of Lixouri and is now an archaeological site. The peninsula is the westernmost part of Kefalonia. The seat of the municipality was the town Lixouri (3,752).
4-406: The municipal unit Paliki is subdivided into the following communities (that were independent municipalities and communities before the 1997 Kapodistrias reform , constituent villages in brackets): Pali Province ( Greek : Επαρχία Πάλης ) was one of the provinces of Cephalonia Prefecture . Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipal unit Paliki. It was abolished in 2006. Paliki
8-677: Is a peninsula in the Ionian Sea , attached to mainland Cephalonia in the northeast. On the east side, the Gulf of Argostoli separates Paliki from Cephalonia. Mountains up to 500 m cover the western and northern part of the peninsula. The oldest document which contains the name "Lixouri" was sent in 1534 by local authorities to the Senate of Venice. Many houses were destroyed in the earthquakes of January 23, 1867 and August 1953. According to Robert Bittlestone 's 2005 book Odysseus Unbound , Paliki
12-551: Was Homer's Ithaca , the home of Odysseus , the central figure in the Odyssey of Homer . Kapodistrias reform Kapodistrias reform ( Greek : Σχέδιο Καποδίστριας , "Kapodistrias Plan") is the common name of law 2539 of Greece , which reorganised the country's administrative divisions . The law, named after 19th-century Greek statesman ( Ioannis Kapodistrias ), passed the Hellenic Parliament in 1997, and
16-830: Was implemented in 1998. The administrative system was changed again at the 2010 Kallikratis reform . Before and after the Kapodistrias reform, the difference between municipalities (δήμοι) and communities (κοινότητες) was merely a matter of size. Municipalities were larger and had a more urban character than communities, which were as small as a single village. The reform reduced the number of municipalities and communities sharply: from 5775 (441 municipalities and 5382 communities) to 1033 (900 municipalities and 133 communities). Municipalities and communities varied in population from 745,514 ( Athens ) to 28 ( Gramos , in Kastoria Prefecture) with an average of 10,603.5 and
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