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 |name_local = Παύλιανη
|type = municipal unit
|image_map = DE Pavlianis.svg 
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| periph = [[Central Greece (administrative region)|Central Greece]]
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|municipality = [[Lamia (city)|Lamia]]
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 |population_as_of = 2021
 |area_municunit = 38.468 
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'''Pavliani''' ({{langx|el|Παύλιανη}}) is a village on [[Mount Oeta]], and a former community in [[Phthiotis]], [[Greece]]. It is divided into two settlements, Pavliani proper or Ano Pavliani (Άνω Παύλιανη) and Nea Pavliani (Νέα Παύλιανη) or Kato Pavliani (Κάτω Παύλιανη).<ref name=stat01>{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf|publisher=National Statistical Service of Greece|title=Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)|language=el}}</ref>

==History==
In [[Greek mythology]], Oeta is chiefly celebrated as the scene of [[Heracles]]' death and funeral pyre.<ref name="DGRGOeta">{{Cite DGRG|title=Oeta|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064:id=oeta-geo|first=|last=|volume=I|pages=}}</ref> The remains of a 3rd-century BC [[Doric order|Doric]] temple dedicated to Heracles and his funeral pyre (Πυρὰ Ἡρακλέους), as well as an altar and ruins of adjacent buildings, still survive at the entrance of the Katavothra plateau at a height of 1,800&nbsp;m, near Pavliani. The temple complex remained in use until late [[Roman Greece|Roman times]].{{sfn|Kastanioti|Stamellou|2013|p=34}}<ref name="NP">{{cite encyclopedia | author = Kramolisch, Herwig | title = Oete | encyclopedia = Brill's New Pauly | publisher = Brill Online | access-date = 9 September 2015 | url = http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/oete-e829530 }}</ref> The ruins of the medieval town of [[Siderokastron]] are located to the east of the village.{{sfn|Koder|Hild|1976|pp=256–257}}

With the establishment of the independent [[Kingdom of Greece]], on 20 April 1835 Pavliani became the seat of the Municipality of [[Rodontia]] (Δήμος Ροδοντίων) of the [[Phocis and Locris Prefecture]].<ref name="eetaa">{{cite web | url = https://www.eetaa.gr/eetaa/metaboles/dkmet_details.php?id=90445 | script-title = el:Δ. Ροδοντίων | publisher = Hellenic Agency for Local Development and Local Government | language = Greek | access-date = 29 June 2020}}</ref> The municipality comprised the nearby villages of Gardikaki ([[Oiti (village)|Oiti]]), [[Sklithraki]], and [[Koumaritsi]].<ref name="eetaa"/>

On 2 July 1841 the Municipality of Rodontia was dissolved and Pavliani became part of the Municipality of Irakleiotes (Δήμος Ηρακλειωτών) of the [[Phthiotis and Phocis Prefecture]] (in 1899–1909 the [[Phthiotis Prefecture]]),<ref name="eetaa"/> until it became an independent community (Κοινότης Παύλιανης) on 31 August 1912.<ref name="eetaa2">{{cite web | url = https://www.eetaa.gr/eetaa/metaboles/dkmet_details.php?id=1093| script-title = el:Κ. Παύλιανης | publisher = Hellenic Agency for Local Development and Local Government | language = Greek | access-date = 29 June 2020}}</ref> The village was also the site of the [[Battle of Pavliani]] on 3 June 1943, by the forces of the [[Greek Resistance]] against an Italian army column. A monument dedicated to the fallen of the battle stands at the entrance of Kato Pavliani.

Pavliani remained an independent community until the [[Kallikratis plan|2011 local government reform]],<ref name="eetaa2"/> following which it is part of the municipality of [[Lamia (city)|Lamia]], of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 38.468&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>.<ref name=stat01/> Population was 498 in the 2011 census, of whom 367 in Ano Pavliani and 131 in Kato Pavliani.<ref name=census11/>

== Population ==
{{Historical populations
|align = none
|1889<ref>{{cite Greek census|year=1889}}, p. 8</ref>|727
|1896<ref>{{cite Greek census|year=1896}}, p. 33</ref>|885
|1907<ref>{{cite Greek census|year=1907}}, p. 367</ref>|972
|1920<ref>[http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00012.pdf 1920 census, Statistical Results for Central Greece and Euboea], p. 37]</ref>|1,001
|2001<ref name=stat01/>|287
|2011<ref name=census11>{{cite web | url = http://www.statistics.gr/documents/20181/1210503/resident_population_census2011rev.xls | title = Απογραφή Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2011. ΜΟΝΙΜΟΣ Πληθυσμός | publisher = Hellenic Statistical Authority | language = el }}</ref>|498
|2021<ref name="census21"/>|214
}}

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

==Sources==
* {{cite book | last1 = Kastanioti | first1 = A. | last2 = Stamellou | first2 = A. | title = Οίτη, Ένα Βουνό Γεμάτο Ομορφιές και Μύθους / Oiti, A Mountain Full of Beauties and Myths | location = Loutra Ypatis | publisher = Management Body of Mt Oiti National Park | year  = 2013 | language = Greek, English }}
* {{Tabula Imperii Byzantini | volume = 1}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090808075629/http://www.pavliani.gr/ Community of Pavliani] {{in lang|el|en}}

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[[Category:Populated places in Phthiotis]]
[[Category:Lamia (city)]]
[[Category:Mount Oeta]]