Krya Vrysi (, Plasničevo , before 1927: Πλάσνα Plasna) is a town and a former municipality in Pella regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pella, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 76.956&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>. It is located 75&nbsp;km west of Thessaloniki and 2&nbsp;km east of the Early Neolithic settlement of Nea Nikomideia.

History

The town of Krya Vrysi, named Plasna before 1927, became an independent community in 1934, when it was separated from Valta.

  1. Takis Fostiropoulos, (*1950), President of the Piraeus Coaches Association (Σύνδεσμος Προπονητών Ποδοσφαίρου Πειραιά) that received honours from UNESCO (2016). In 1990 he had been the first coach of the then founded Greece women's national football team, and 1989–2002 coach of the Joint Youth and Children Groups of Piraeus Football Clubs Association. 1966–74 he had been team member of Apollon Kryas Vrysis (Απόλλων Κρύας Βρύσης) when the team had been playing in the second national league.
  2. Dimitra Markovitsi, (*1954), is an Emeritus Research Director at the French National Center for Scientific Research. Her studies shed light on the first steps occurring when ultraviolet radiation is absorbed by DNA. She is the Chair of the International Foundation for Photochemistry and served as President of the European Photochemistry Association (2007-2010). With her husband, Gérard Balland, she translated into French the historical novel by M. Karagatsis "Sergius and Bacchus".
  3. Theodoros Theodoridis (*1956) is a Greek architect and politician. He served as a Community Councillor of Krya Vrysi from 1986 to 1990, Mayor of Krya Vrysi from 1991 to 2002, Prefectural Councillor of Pella from 2003 to 2010, Deputy Regional Governor of Pella from 2011 to 2019, and has been a Municipal Councillor of Pella since 2019.
  4. Nikolaos Fostiropoulos, (*1958), had been elected to the Karlsruhe (Germany) City Council from 1999 to 2019 as a member of the left party Die Linke. He is founder and owner of company alfatraining that has been listed in the top 20 of German providers of further education.
  5. Konstantinos Fostiropoulos, (*1960), physicist, 2003–2016 head of the Organic Solar Cells Group at HZB. In 1989/90 he was the first to develop a method to synthesize the "football molecule" C<sub>60</sub> fullerene. (ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ)

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