Having been around 6.5 square miles (16.8sq km) in 2022, the surface area of the lake was reduced to just 4.6 square miles (12 sq km) in 2024, according to satellite images released by Greece’s National Observatory.

The village, which once comprised around 80 houses, a school and a church, has only reappeared once before, during another period of drought in the 1990s.

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