The Municipality of Argos was a municipality of Argolis prefecture which was established by the Kapodistrias Plan from the merging of older communities of the area, which later formed the municipal districts of the municipality. The municipality operated in the period 1999-2010 when it was abolished with the implementation of Kallikratis Plan and joined the new municipality Argos-Mykines as municipal unit. It was located in the northwest of the prefecture and covered a large part of the Argolic plain, up to the mountain Artemisio. It bordered with the municipalities of Koutsopodi, Lyrkeia, Midea, Lerna, Mycenae, Nea Kios and the community of Achladokampos. The municipality had a population of 29,228 inhabitants according to the 2001 census and was the largest municipality in population of Argolida. The seat of the municipality was Argos. The former municipality and current municipal unit, is subdivided into the following communities and their respective settlements. Community of Argos Argos Akova Kokla Timenio Community of Dalamanara Dalamanara Community of Elliniko Kryoneri Elliniko Zogka Krya Vrysi Tourniki Community of Ira Ira Community of Inachos Inachos Tristrato Community of Kefalari Kefalari Magoula Community of Kourtaki Kourtaki Community of Lalouka Lalouka Community of Pyrgella Pyrgela Ancient sites Kechries or Cenchreae Larissa Timenio Mayors of Argos The municipality was established in 1834 and operated till 1914 and again since 1925 till 2010 when it was abolished. During 1914-1925, it was downgraded into community, due to having less than 10,000 population. Before the Kapodistrias reform in 1997, municipality of Argos contained only the community of Argos. First mayor was Hristos Vlassis. 1834-1838 Hristos Vlassis 1838-1841, 1852-1855 Konstantinos Vokos 1841-1848 Georgios Tsokris 1848-1852 Konstantinos Rodopoulos 1855-1858 Ioannis Vlassis (and congressman) 1858-1861 Petros Divanis (doctor) 1861-1866 Lambros Lambrinidis 1866-1870 Mihail Pashalinopoulos 1870-1874, 1879-1883 Mihail Papalexopoulos (doctor, congressman, governor) 1874-1875, 1883-1891, 1893-1899 Spilios Kalmouhos 1891-1893 Haralambos Mistakopoulos (1830-1894, died in office) 1899-1903 Emmanouil Roussos (doctor) 1903-1907 Dimitrios P. Kouzis (1870-1958) (senator and congressman) 1907-1914 Andreas Karatzas (lawyer) 1917-1918 Hristos Karagiannis (president of Argos Community) 1925-22 January 1928 Aggelis Bobos (1878-1928) merchant, (died in office) 1928-1941 Konstantinos Bobos (merchant). He succeeded his brother Angelis. 1941-1943 Efthimios Smirniotatkis (lawyer) 1943-1944 Georgios Papagiannopoulos (lawyer) 1944-1945 Konstantinos Dorovinis (dentist) ... 1951-1964 Efstathios Marinos (1902-1990) 1964-1967 Georgios Thomopoulos (1906-1995) 1967-1973 Theodoros Polihronopoulos 1973-1974 Marios Presvelos 1974-1975 (appointment by the government of national unity) 1975-1978 Dimitrios Bonis 1979-1986 Georgios Peirounis (1926-1999) 1987-1998 Dimitrios Papanikolaou (1937-2017) 1999-2002 Nikolaos Koligliatis 2003-2006 Dimitrios Platis 2007-2010