Corinthia (Greek: Κορινθία, Korinthía) is the area around the city 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, located in the north-eastern part of the Peloponnese The Peloponnese or Peloponnesus is a large peninsula and region in southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth. The peninsula is divided among three distinct peripheries of modern Greece: most of the Peloponnese and parts of the West Greece and Attica peripheries peninsula. It is a prefecture Greece consists of 13 administrative regions known as Peripheries of Greece, which are further subdivided into 3 super-prefectures and 54 prefectures or nomes of Greece Greece /ˈɡriːs/ (Greek: Ελλάδα, transliterated: Elláda [e̞ˈlaða] , historically Ἑλλάς, Hellás, IPA: [eˈlas]), officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Ellīnikī́ Dīmokratía, [e̞liniˈkʲi ðimokraˈti.a]), is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan, part of the periphery The peripheries (more properly "regions", in English) are the official regional administrative divisions of Greece. There are 13 peripheries (nine on the mainland and four island groups), which are further subdivided into 54 prefectures of Peloponnese. It is bounded by Achaia Achaea is an ancient province and a present prefecture of Greece, on the northern coast of the Peloponnese, stretching from the mountain ranges of Erymanthus and Cyllene on the south to a narrow strip of fertile land on the north, bordering the Gulf of Corinth, into which the mountain Panachaicus (1,902 m, the northernmost mountain range in the to the west and southwest, the Gulf of Corinth and Attica Attica is a periphery (subdivision) in Greece, containing Athens, the capital of Greece. Attica is subdivided into the prefectures of Athens, Piraeus, East Attica and West Attica to the north, the Saronic Gulf to the east and Argolis Argolis is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. It is located in the eastern part of the Peloponnese. Most arable land lies in the central part. Its primary agricultural resources are oranges and olives, and beaches are found in the south and east; mountains and hills dominate the west, northeast and east and Arcadia Arcadia, Arkadía , or Arcady is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas to the south.

Corinthia is the fourth most populated prefecture on the Peloponnese peninsula and the second largest in the periphery since the 1980s when it surpassed the neighboring Arcadia's population. Currently (2001 census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and door to door censuses' , agriculture, and business censuses. The term itself comes) the population stands at 144,527 inhabitants, while the 1991 figures showed a population of 132,139.

The Corinth Canal The Corinth Canal is a canal that connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Peloponnesian peninsula from the Greek mainland, thus effectively making the former an island. The canal is 6.3 kilometres in length and was built between 1881 and 1893, carrying ship traffic between the Ionian The Ionian Sea is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, south of the Adriatic Sea. It is bounded by southern Italy including Calabria, Sicily and the Salento peninsula to the west, and by southwestern Albania, including Saranda and Himara, and a large number of Greek islands, including Corfu, Zante, Kephalonia, Ithaka, and Lefkas to the east. The and the Aegean The Aegean Sea (Greek: Αιγαίο Πέλαγος, Egeo Pelagos [eˈʝeo ˈpelaɣos]; Turkish: Ege Denizi ) is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey respectively. In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea seas, is about 4 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, cutting through the Isthmus of Corinth The Isthmus of Corinth is the narrow land bridge which connects the Peloponnese peninsula with the mainland of Greece, near the city of Corinth. The word "isthmus" comes from the Ancient Greek word for "neck" and refers to the narrowness of the land. To the west of the Isthmus is the Gulf of Corinth, to the east the Saronic. The prefecture is increasingly seen as part of the wider metropolitan area of Athens Athens , the capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the world's oldest cities, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years, with municipalities, such as Agioi Theodoroi in the easternmost part of Corinthia, being considered suburbs of Athens.

The area around Corinth and the western Saronic The Saronic Gulf or Gulf of Aegina in Greece forms part of the Aegean Sea and defines the eastern side of the isthmus of Corinth. It is the eastern terminus of the Corinth Canal, which cuts across the isthmus. Islands that are lined in the middle of the Gulf are Aegina, Salamis, and Poros along with smaller islands of Patroklou and Vleves. The including the southeastern part are made up of fault lines including the Corinth Fault, the Poseidon Fault and a fault running from Perahcora to Agioi Theodoroi. More faults are near Kiras Vrysi and Sofiko.

! Municipality !! Municipal code !! Seat (if different) !! Postal code |- | Agioi Theodoroi || 3001 || || 200 03 |- | Assos-Lechaio || 3002 || Perigiali || 200 11 |- | 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 || 3006 || || 201 00 |----- | Evrostini || 3005 || Derveni || 200 09 |----- | Feneos || 3015 || Gkoura || 200 14 |----- | Loutraki-Perachora Loutraki-Perachora is a municipality of Corinthia Prefecture, Greece || 3007 || Loutraki || 203 00 |----- | Nemea Nemea is an ancient site near the head of the valley of the River Elissos in the northeastern part of the Peloponnese, in Greece. Formerly part of the territory of Cleonae in Argolis, it is today part of the prefecture of Corinthia. The small village of Ancient Nemea (formerly known as "Iraklion") is immediately southwest of the || 3008 || || 205 00 |----- | Saronikos || 3010 || Athikia || 200 05 |----- | Sikyona || 3011 || Kiato || 202 00 |----- | Solygeia || 3012 || Sofiko || 200 04 |----- | Stymfalia || 3013 || Kalianoi || 200 16 |----- | Tenea || 3014 || Chiliomodi || 200 08 |----- | Velo || 3003 || || 200 02 |----- | Vocha Vocha is a municipality in Corinthia, Greece. Population 10,112 (2001). The seat of the municipality is in Zevgolateio || 3004 || Zevgolateio || 200 01 |----- | Xylokastro Xylokastro is a city that is 40 km W of Corinth via GR-8, which is also E65. Its interchange is about 1.5 km W, west of the river. The population is around 11,000 and there is a nearby interchange southwest of the city. Its 2001 population was 5,618 for the village and 15,273 for the municipal district. The city has a river named Sythas to its || 3009 || || 204 00 |}

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Communities and municipal districts

See also: List of settlements in the Korinthia prefecture

Towns of significance

Population

Year Population Change
1991 132,129 - - -
2001 144,527 12,398/9.38% 14.07% 4.53%

History

From 1833 to 1899, it included Argolis Argolis is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. It is located in the eastern part of the Peloponnese. Most arable land lies in the central part. Its primary agricultural resources are oranges and olives, and beaches are found in the south and east; mountains and hills dominate the west, northeast and east and was known as Argolidocorinthia Argolidocorinthia is an old Greece prefecture in the eastern Peloponnese that existed from 1833 to 1899 and again from 1909 to 1949. In 1949, following the victory of the Royalists in the Greek civil war, the prefecture was split in three. The northern half became Corinth with its capital at the city of Corinth and Argolis with its capital at and included Hydra Hydra is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece, located in the Aegean Sea between the Saronic Gulf and the Argolic Gulf. It is separated from the Peloponnese by narrow strip of water. In ancient times, the island was known as Hydrea (Υδρέα, derived from the Greek word for "water"), which was a reference to the springs on the island, Spetses and Kythira Kythira is an island of Greece, historically part of the Ionian Islands. It lies opposite the eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula. It is administratively part of the Piraeus Prefecture (centered in the Athens metropolitan area) although geographically distant from the prefecture's population center. It has a land area of 279.593 km² (107.951. Argolis joined Corinthia to re-form Argolidocorinthia again in 1909. Forty years later, in 1949, the prefecture was finally separated from Argolis, then Argolidocorinthia.

The highway was first paved in the 19th to the 20th century. The mid to late-20th century saw the population shifting from agriculture to other jobs as people moved to larger towns and cities as well as other parts of the world. In the 1960s, a superhighway was constructed to handle the increasing traffic between Corinth and Athens and allow higher speed limits (60 km/h to 80 km/h). This highway consists of the GR-8A, partly E65 and E94 and is tolled. The section from the old Corinth interchange eastward in Korinthia was opened in 1962 and the section west of Korinthia was added in 1969. The new highway had a significant effect on the prefecture's industry, as it lowered the cost of transportation of goods between Korinthia and the Athens metropolitan area.

In late 2006, the prefect of Corinthia announced the construction of a new dam located 5 to 7 km south of Kiato and Sicyon Sikyon was an ancient Greek city situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth and Achaea on the territory of the present-day prefecture of Corinthia. The king-list given by Pausanias comprises twenty-four kings, beginning with the autochthonous Aegialeus; the penultimate king of the list, Agamemnon, compels the submission of Sicyon to, near Stimanika, over the Elissos River. It will become the second largest body of water (lakes, reservoirs) in the prefecture and also the first prefecture in the Peloponnese The Peloponnese or Peloponnesus is a large peninsula and region in southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth. The peninsula is divided among three distinct peripheries of modern Greece: most of the Peloponnese and parts of the West Greece and Attica peripheries peninsula to built a reservoir. The dam will be designed to withstand earthquakes and natural disasters including flooding.

On Tuesday July 17 July 17 is the 198th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 167 days remaining until the end of the year, 2007 2007 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, a forest fire struck the area around the historic Acrocorinth Acrocorinth , "Upper Corinth", the acropolis of ancient Corinth, is a monolithic rock overseeing the ancient city of Corinth, Greece. "It is the most impressive of the acropoleis of mainland Greece," in the estimation of George Forrest. Acrocorinth was continuously occupied from archaic times to the early nineteenth century and its castle. It started on a slope near Acrocorinth and the fires spread quickly enough to burn a large number of Greek Fir, pine See Pinus classification for complete taxonomy to species level. See list of pines by region for list of species by geographical distribution and cypress Cypress is the name applied to many plants in the cypress family Cupressaceae, which is a conifer of northern temperate regions. Most cypress species are trees, while a few are shrubs. Most plants bearing the common name cypress are in the genera Cupressus and Chamaecyparis, but several other genera in the family also carry the name trees in the surrounding area and reach the new GR-7 (E65) superhighway, causing traffic to be rerouted. It took a significant number of firefighters, fire trucks, two helicopters and a few planes to contain and stop the blaze from spreading. The fire was finally put out the next day. On July 19 July 19 is the 200th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 165 days remaining until the end of the year however, two more fires started near Chiliomodi and Mapsos. They started in the late afternoon hours and burnt several forests and groves during the night.

==Geography==leave britney alone the eastern coast of the prefecture are made up of pasture lands and farmlands where olives, grapes, tomatoes and vegetables are cultivated. The rest of prefecture is dominated by mountains. Its tallest mountain is Kyllini to its west and the largest lake is Lake Stymphalus situated in the southwest. The reservoir will become one of the largest lakes after its completion.

Climate

The climate of Corinthia consists of hot summers and mild winters at the coastal areas and somewhat more cold winters with occasional snowfalls at the mountain areas.

Economy

The main sources of income are goods and services, manufacturing, tourism and agriculture.

Transport

The area are connected by highways:

Communications

Culture

Famous attractions include the Ancient Corinth and its acropolis, Acrocorinth Acrocorinth , "Upper Corinth", the acropolis of ancient Corinth, is a monolithic rock overseeing the ancient city of Corinth, Greece. "It is the most impressive of the acropoleis of mainland Greece," in the estimation of George Forrest. Acrocorinth was continuously occupied from archaic times to the early nineteenth century, thermal springs of Loutraki, the Corinth Canal, Nemea and the Heraion of Perachora.

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