Here are communities in the Larissa prefecture in Greece: Alternative meanings: Larissa in mythology was a daughter of Pelasgus; Larrissa is a moon of Neptune; 1162 Larissa is an asteroid; Larissa is also a first name. ... Greece, officaly called the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρατία), is a country in the southeast of Europe on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula. ...
Larissa was a daughter of Pelasgus (see History, below); Larissa is a moon Larissa (la-ris'-a, Greek Λάρῑσα) is the fifth of Neptune's known moons.
It is bordered by the prefectures of Euboea via a gulf in the east, Boeotia in the west, Phokida in the south, Aitolia-Acarnania in the southwest, Evrytania in the west, Karditsa in the west, Larissa in the north and Magnesia in the east.
Larissa was the headquarters of Ali Pasha during the Greek War of Independence, and of the crown prince Constantine during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.