Marathia, Karditsa

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Statistics
Marathia Μαραθιά
Prefecture:	Karditsa
Province:	none
Municipality:	Sellana
Municipal district:	Marathia
Number of subdivisions:	2 (see below)
Location: Latitude: Longitude:	39.5243 (39° 31' 33") N 21.9945 (21° 59' 32") E
Population: (2001) -Municipal district -Village -Percent of the municipality	709 967 14.04%
Altitude: -lowest: -centre:	about 70 to 80 m 95 m about 100 m
Postal code:	GR-430 61
Car designation:	`KA`

Marathia (Greek, Modern: , Katharevousa^{[citation needed]}: Μαραθέα), older^{[citation needed]} form: Marathea, also with the third a accented is a Greek located northeast of Karditsa in the northeastern part of the Karditsa Prefecture. Marathia is in the municipality of Sellana. Marathia had a 2001 population of 709 for the village and 967 for the municipal district. The village is situated in the Thessalian Plain.

Its residents are based in agriculture and other businesses. Its main production are cotton. In the older times, the village was known as Vanari (Βάναρη) and was renamed to Marathia in the late-20th century.

1 Subrivisions
2 Nearest places
3 Population
4 Other
5 External links
6 See also

[edit] Subrivisions

Korda

[edit] Nearest places

Proasteio, southwest
Korda

[edit] Population

Year	Municipal population	Change	Municipal district population	Percent of the municipality
1981	1,032	-	-	-
1991	761	-271 or -26.26%	-	-
2001	709	-62 or -8.15%	967	14.04%

After World War II and the Greek Civil War, the population steadily declined as residents moved to larger towns and cities and the richest countries in the world.

Electricity and automobiles arrived in the 1960s, it was linked with pavement in the late-20th century, television arrived in the 1980s. Internet and computers arrived in the late-1990s.

[edit] Other

Marathia has a school, a lyceum (middle school), a gymnasium (secondary school) a few churches and the central square (plateia), its nearest and banks are in Proastio as well as its post offices.