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The Pieria regional unit is bordered by Imathia to the north, Kozani to the west, and to the south and west by the region of Thessaly's Regional Unit of Larissa. The Pierian Mountains lie to the west; the Thermaic Gulf lies to the east. It also has a valley by the GR-13. Most of the population live within the Olympian Riviera. The lowest point is the Thermaic Gulf and the highest point is Mount Olympus.
It combines extensive plains, high mountains and sandy beaches. The region's beauty gives it a great potential for further tourist development.[8][9]
Its climate is mainly of Mediterranean type with hot summers and cool winters. Severe winter weather is common in the central and western parts of Pieria, especially in the Pierian Mountains and on Mount Olympus.
On June 8, 2007, a low pressure weather system from Southern and Central Europe resulted in heavy rainfall that ravaged the prefecture and caused great damage in fruit and vegetable production. The worst hit area was Korinos.
Map of the Kingdom of Macedon with Pieria located in the southern districts of the kingdom.
The region, known as Pieria or Pieris (Ancient Greek: Πιερία/Πιερίς) in Antiquity, took its name from the Pieres (Πίερες), a Thracian[13] tribe that was expelled[14] by the Macedonians in the 8th century BC[15] from their original seats, and driven to the North beyond the Strymon river and Mount Pangaeus,[14] where they formed a new settlement in Edonis. The name Pieria has been connected to Homeric πῖαρ "fat", πίειραν ἄρουραν "fertile land" in a metaphorical sense.[16]
It was later invaded and became a part of the Ottoman Empire. During the Greek War of Independence in 1821, Pieria took up arms along with the rest of Greece,[17][18] but their struggle failed and Pieria did not join the rest of Greece until the Balkan Wars in 1913. Until 1947, Pieria was part of the Thessaloniki Prefecture (at that time the largest Greek prefecture), as a province. Pieria saw an economic boom in agriculture and business. During the Greco-Turkish War, it saw an influx of refugees from Asia Minor, now a part of Turkey, and several places were named after their former homelands including Nea Trapezounta from Trebizond (now Trabzon) and Nea Efesos from Ephesus (now Efes). The village of Elafos in the municipal unit Elafina, formerly a community in the Imathia prefecture, was attached to Pieria in 1974.[19]
Katerina Nikolaidou (1992), rower athlete, 4th place 2016 Olympic Games, silver medal in the lightweight single sculls at the 2013 and 2014 World Rowing Championships
Dorothea Poimenidou (1995),[25] archer, 4th place Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, 9th place Paris 2024 Paralympic Games
Christina Moschi (2002), 10m air pistol shooter, Member of the Hellenic National Shooting Team
Maria Tsionoglou (1991), 10m air pistol shooter, Member of the Hellenic National Shooting Team
^"Homer, Odyssey, Book 5, line 50". Perseus Digital Library. Retrieved 2020-05-04. On to Pieria he stepped from the upper air, and swooped down upon the sea, and then sped over the wave like a bird, the cormorant, which in quest of fish over the dread gulfs of the unresting sea wets its thick plumage in the brine. In such wise did Hermes ride upon the multitudinous waves.
^Marchant, E.C., ed. (1891). Thucydides Book II. London: Macmillan. between Mount Olympus and the Thermaic Gulf, the original home of the Muses and birth-place of Orpheus
^Guthrie, William Keith (1993). Alderink, Larry J. (ed.). Orpheus and Greek Religion: A Study of the Orphic Movement. Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 62. ISBN978-0691024998. ... assigned, Pieria, was originally inhabited by a Thracian tribe, the Pieres, who according to Thucydides (ii. ...
^ abWalker, Keith G. (2004). Archaic Eretria: A Political and Social History from the Earliest Times to 490 BC. London: Routledge. p. 154. ISBN9780415285520. ... 498-54)12' had incorporated coastal Pieria into Macedonia and expelled the 'Pieres', who afterwards took up their abode in areas at Mt.Pangaion...
^Hansen, Mogens Herman; Nielsen, Thomas Heine (2005) [1st edition 2004]. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis, An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation. Oxford University Press. p. 865. ISBN978-0-19-814099-3.
^Adams, D. Q.; Mallory, J.P. (2006). The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world. Oxford University Press. p. 261. ISBN978-0199296682.
^Arvanitis, Konstantinos (2021). Turkish-occupied Pieria (in Greek). Katerini: MATI. pp. 1–442. ISBN978-618-5376-53-6.
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