Phthiotis

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Phthiotis Prefecture Νομός Φθιώτιδας

Periphery	Central Greece
Capital	Lamia
Population	181,383 (2005)Ranked 14th
Area	4,440.765 km² Ranked 4th
Population density	40.8/km²Ranked 40th
Number of provinces	2
Number of municipalities	23
Number of communities	2
Postal codes	35x xx
Area codes	223x0
Licence plate code	ΜΙ
ISO 3166-2 code	GR-06
Website	www.fthiotida.gr

Phthiotis (Greek: Φθιώτιδα, Fthiótida, IPA: [fθiˈo̞tiða]; ancient Greek and Katharevousa: Φθιώτις) is one of the prefectures of Greece. The capital is the city of Lamia. It is bordered by the Maliac Gulf to the east, Boeotia in the south, Phocis in the south, Aetolia-Acarnania in the southwest, Eurytania in the west, Karditsa in the north, Larissa in the north, and Magnesia in the northeast. The name dates back to ancient times. The modern prefecture was created during the Greek War of Independence of 1821 and was known as Phthiotis and Phocis until 1947 when the old southern part became the modern Phocis prefecture and the name changed to the modern-day Phthiotis.

1 Geography
2 History
3 Transport
4 Municipalities and communities
5 Persons
6 Sporting teams
7 See also

[edit] Geography

Much of the areas within the shorelines are mountainous from the southern part with a few low-lying areas but the lowlands are in the central part and a length of 200 to 500 m in average in the north and in the Cephissus and the Spercheios valleys. GR-1 used to encircle the western part of the shoreline of Phthiotis until a tunnel opened up. Mountains dominate the south, the southwest, the further west and the north.

[edit] History

The prefecture in the 1950s began construction of the GR-1 (Athens - Lamia - Thessaloniki). Electricity and pavement of the roads began in the 1950s and the 1960s. The highway bypassed Lamia. It was opened a few years later. In the late-1990s, the tunnel began construction and was planned in the later part of the century ans is located in the eastern part of the prefecture. The grand opening of the Maliakos Tunnel linking near Stylida and E of Kameni Vourla was opened in the mid-2000s.

In the Spercheios, flooding which began on March 6, 2005 flooded several places and caused mudslides in the western part wrecking homes and properties. In the mountain areas the snowstorm which arrived by the evening hours of February 7, 2005 brought heavy snowfalls to the area that accumulated as high as one to two metres and stranded roads, inhabitants and caused minor bread shortages, one of the villages including Kampia were hit hard and one which has only one inhabitant which saw the road blanketed with heavy snowfall.

[edit] Transport

E65, S, Cen., NE
Greek National Road 1/E75, SE, E, Cen., NE
Greek National Road 3, SE, S, Cen., N
Greek National Road 27, S, Cen.
Greek National Road 38, W, Cen.

[edit] Municipalities and communities

Municipality	YPES code	Seat (if different)	Postal code
Agios Georgios Tymfristou	4901		350 17
Agios Konstantinos	4902		350 06
Amfikleia	4903		350 02
Atalanti	4904		352 00
Dafnousia	4906	Livanates	350 07
Domokos	4907		350 10
Echinaioi	4909	Raches	353 00
Elateia	4908		350 04
Gorgopotamos	4905	Moschochori	351 00
Kamena Vourla	4911		350 08
Lamia	4912		351 00
Leianokladi	4913		351 00
Makrakomi	4914		350 11
Malesina	4915		350 01
Molos	4916		350 09
Opountia	4918	Martino	350 05
Pelasgia	4920		350 13
Spercheiada	4921		350 03
Stylida	4922		353 00
Thessaliotida	4910	Neo Monastirio	351 00
Tithorea	4923	Kato Tithorea	350 15
Xyniada	4917	Omvriaki	350 10
Ypati	4925		350 16
Community	YPES code	Seat (if different)	Postal code
Pavliani	4919		351 00
Tymfristos	4924		350 17