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Agios Stefanos (or former Ozeros Nezer) is located on the southwestern shore of the drained lake Xyniadas and 36.5 km north of Lamia. The administrative district of covering 20,181 acres. Upon release from 1883 and until 1912 was a settlement of the municipality Xyniadas based Omvriaki as settlement Ozero.
In 1912 when the then administrative reform created the community "Ozero". Renamed St. Stephenos community with the decree of 09.11.1928. It is one of the villages mentioned in the intention of the Monastery of Redina as, "Ozeros" then designates the age and its existence before 1640.
The name Agios Stefanos came from the church that was built in the tradition Turkish officer when the day of the feast of St. Stephen (27 December) spent the night over snowy, icy and foggy lake, with the troops, without knowing and without to sink in it. In the church of St. Stepheno's and today marble inscription on the history of the frozen lake. 
In the village there is the church of Agia Marina and All Saints church built recently on a hill above the village and in "Alice." Files in community councils of the period 1914-1920, we find that in the communities that used outside the national coat of arms emblem included Agios Stefanos, with the motto "fish left oblique direction".