Agioi Theodoroi (Άγιοι Θεόδωροι) is a suburb of Athens The Greek capital has a population of 745,514 within its administrative limits and a land area of 39 km2 (15 sq mi). The urban area of Athens extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3,130,841 (in 2001) and a land area of 412 km2 (159 sq mi). According to Eurostat, the Athens Larger Urban Zone (LUZ) is the 8th most Greece Greece (English: /ˈɡriːs/ ; Greek: Ελλάδα, Elláda, IPA: /eˈlaða/ ( listen); Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, Hellás, IPA: /helːás/), also known as Hellas and officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Ellīnikī́ Dīmokratía, IPA: /eliniˈci ðimokraˈtia/), is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on located around 12 km east of Corinth Corinth, or Korinth (Greek Κόρινθος, Kórinthos ( [ˈkorinθos] ) is a city in Greece. In antiquity it was a city-state, on the Isthmus of Corinth, the narrow stretch of land that joins the Peloponnesus to the mainland of Greece. To the west of the isthmus lies the Gulf of Corinth, to the east lies the Saronic Gulf. Corinth is about 78 and about 63 km W of Athens The Greek capital has a population of 745,514 within its administrative limits and a land area of 39 km2 (15 sq mi). The urban area of Athens extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3,130,841 (in 2001) and a land area of 412 km2 (159 sq mi). According to Eurostat, the Athens Larger Urban Zone (LUZ) is the 8th most in the easternmost part of the Corinthia Prefecture. Its population was 5,960 inhabitants at the 2001 census. It has one toll interchange with GR-8A first opened in 1995, and a braking lot. The south contains beach, the west is bounded by the Corinth Refinery with the Kalamaki hills and mountains dominating the northern part, and the Attica Attica is a historical region of Greece, containing Athens, the current capital of Greece. The historical region is centered on the Attic peninsula, which projects into the Aegean Sea. There is a modern periphery (administrative region) of Greece, also named Attica, which is more extensive than the historical region, and includes several islands, boundary with Kineta (Kinetta) to its east. The municipality is bounded with Loutraki Loutraki is a seaside town located 4 km NE of Corinth in the Prefecture of Corinthia, Greece. Loutraki is the seat of the municipality Loutraki-Perachora. It is largely a tourist town, and is well-known in Greece for its vast natural springs. The name itself, Loutraki, derives from the Greek word for Spring. Within Greece, Loutraki is also famous in the west and Megara Megara is an ancient city (pop. 23,032 in 2001) in Attica, Greece. It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens. Megara was one of the four districts of Attica, embodied in the four mythic sons of King Pandion II, of whom Nisos was in the east. Agricultural used to dominate before the 1960s and the 1970s. Now most of the agricultural land is in the north and the east. Some houses are summer homes.
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Settlements
- Agia Paraskevi
- Katsiviri?
- Stena
- Kalyvizes
- Kato Kokkini Spilia
- Ano Kokkini Spilia
Nearest places
- Kineta (east)
- Kalamaki (west)
Historical population
| Year | Municipal population | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 2,660 | - |
| 1991 | 5,084 | 2,424/91.13% |
History
In 2001, a fire started on a mountain north of Aghioi Theodori and south of the Geraneia mountains. It lasted days. It spread close to the refinery, and the town and smoke covered the main freeway and highway. Road closures took place. A couple of houses especially in Kineta were burnt down. As soon as firefighters put out the fire, the fires were stopped.
On July 31, 2005, two days after the enormous Attica Fire near Rafina, another enormous fire reaching as high as 15 to 30 m ravaged the settlements of Agia Paraskevi and Katsivari northeast of the downtown area of Agioi Theodoroi near the Geraneia Mountains, which are covered with virgin pine trees that cover the southern and the western parts of the mountains which were threatened. The fire continued down to the superhighway/service road (second highway). The forests near the mountain started in the afternoon hours and partly in Kineta in the Attica prefecture. The flames were threatening and roamed faster like the East Attica Fire of July 29. One of the fires ravaged several houses in the settlement of Agia Paraskevi lying near the forests to the northeast. The firefighters began to use the stairs in one of the affected houses to put out the fire before it caused damage. Many square kilometres of fire were contained. Smoke covered the northeastern part.
References
- ^ "Δείτε τη Διοικητική Διαίρεση" (in Greek). Hellenic Interior Ministry. www.ypes.gr. http://www.ypes.gr/UserFiles/f0ff9297-f516-40ff-a70e-eca84e2ec9b9/D_diairesi.xls. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
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See also
Categories: Cities, towns and villages in the Corinthia Prefecture | Municipalities in Corinthia prefecture
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