page_title: Farsala
section_title: Modern Farsala
hierarchical_section_title: Farsala / History / Modern Farsala
caption_attribution_description: English: Christopher Wordsworth. Greece Pictorial, Descriptive, &amp; Historical, and a History of the Characteristics of Greek Art, London, John Murray, 1882.
context_page_description: Farsala, known in Antiquity as Pharsalos, is a city in southern Thessaly, in Greece. Farsala is located in the southern part of Larissa regional unit, and is one of its largest towns. Farsala is an economic and agricultural centre of the region. Cotton and livestock are the main agricultural products, and many inhabitants are employed in the production of textile. Farsala is famous for its distinctive halva, but even more so for its significance in ancient history. It is inhabited by a large Aromanian population.
context_section_description: Farsala was known as Çatalca during Ottoman rule.
  Following the Treaty of Berlin the city became part of the Hellenic Kingdom together with the rest of Thessaly in 1881. During the First Greco-Turkish War (1897), a major battle took place in the vicinity of Farsala.
  The contemporary town has no historical or medieval buildings left as a result of a World War II bombardment and a catastrophic earthquake that struck the area in 1954. Small scale urbanization processes attracted population from surrounded villages during the 80's and 90's creating an urban landscape typical of Greek cities with small apartment buildings in nearby plots of land.
caption: Farsala in the 19th century
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