Chiliomodi

Chiliomodi (Greek, Modern: Χιλιομόδι, Ancient/Katharevousa: -on) is a village in east-central Corinthia in the Peloponnese. It was the seat of the municipality of Tenea. Chiliomodi is situated on the old GR-7, the old road linking Tripoli and Corinth. It is located 18 km SW from Corinth in Greece, 37 km N of Argos, about 45 km N of Nafplio and about 65 km (old distance: about 98 km) NE of Tripoli. It is also located 14 km S of GR-8A/E94, E65 northbound and about 15 km E of E65 with its nearest interchange near Nemea.

Chiliomodi has a school, a lyceum, a high school, a church, banks, a police station, a train station (Kalamata - Tripoli - Corinth) a water tower, a junior soccer team, and a square (plateia). Chiliomodi is situated in a valley and are made up of mixed farming including groves, pastures and some fruits and vegetables. Another small valley lies to the southeast. The mountains are forested. The southeastern part of the municipality are underpopulated and has a road linking to the northern part of Argolis where it forms its boundary with Mycenae. Other roads are gravel and unusable.

Chiliomodi also has a forest which is named Magemeno including a camp, an observatory named Stephanoin.

A catastrophic fire burnt the area on July 17, 2007 that burnt thousands of hectares of land on the mountains outside Mapsos in the Magemeno Forest. Firefighters along with helicopters and two planes battled the blaze and fought it from entering the village and its farms. The fire occurred in the afternoon hours and continued through the evening hours and ended. About 15 buildings and properties suffered some damages. It turned what used to be a beautiful and prestigious scenery became an ugly undemanding ashy scenery. Ten hydro poles burnt and collapsed to the burnt ground which resulted blackout to the area along with Chiliomodi, much of its residents were evacuated to nearby villages to avoiud problems.

Communities and subdivisions

• Agionori

Persons

• Irene Papas (1926-) actress
• Vassilis Rotas (1889 - 1977) author
• Manousos Manousakis (1950-) writer, director
• Nektaria Sofou-Boustris, vocalist for the Journey to Ithaca
• 1000mods, stoner rock band

Historical population

External links

• Chiliomodi Public School (in Greek)
• Apollo of Tenea
• Kouros from Tenea - University of South Carolina
• Kouros from Itea - aegean.gr

See also

• List of settlements in the Corinthia prefecture