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Kefalovryso is the home of amateur football club A.O. Kefalovrysou, currently participating in the 3rd division of
Trikala Amateur Football Championships. The club was founded in 1974 and its major achievement is the participation in the 1st division. In the past few years a basketball club named
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The
Kefalovryso residents are mainly occupied in the field of agriculture, particularly in the production of corn, wheat and cotton. Many of them are also working in the nearby city of Trikala in a variety of private enterprises or as civil servants. A few are also working in the iron and timber
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Since 1999, the village has been a municipal department of the
Municipality of Faloreia, also being its seat until November 2010. After the prefectural elections of November 2010 the village has become a part of the Municipality of the town of Trikala.
516:. In 1919 Lesteno and Rongia were extracted from the community of Mikro Mertsi and formed the community of Lesteno. In 1924 the Mikro Mertsi community was renamed into Kefalovryso Community. The modern name of the village is Kefalovryso (derived from
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Kefalovryso's initial name was Mertzi or literally
Mertzion (Greek: Μέρτζι/Μέρτζιον). The word Mertzi -by olders sometimes still in use as Mertsi- probably derives from the old Slavic word
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till 1912, when it became an autonomous community as Mertsi-Mikro
Community. The newly formed community also included the settlements of Lesteno (now
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A.S.K. Faloreia was also founded in
Kefalovryso and is currently participating in the Trikala Amateur Basketball Divisions.
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According to the unwritten tradition, the modern name comes from a brigand who was active in the region around
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