Agioi Theodoroi

Infobox Greek Dimos
name = Agioi Theodoroi
name_local = Άγιοι Θεόδωροι


periph = Peloponnese
prefec = Corinthia
province =
population = 5960
population_as_of = 2001
population_ref = [http://www.statistics.gr/gr_tables/S1101_SAP_1_TB_DC_01_03_Y.pdf source]
pop_dens = 60.8
area = 98.030
elevation =
lat_deg = 37
lat_min = 55
lat_hem = N
lon_deg = 23
lon_min = 5
lon_hem = E
postal_code = 200 03
area_code = 27410
licence = ΚΡ
mayor =
website =


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Agioi Theodoroi (Άγιοι Θεόδωροι) is an suburb of Athens Greece located around 12 km east of Corinth and about 63 km W of Athens 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 boundary with Kineta (Kinetta) to its east. The municipality is bounded with Loutraki in the west and Megara 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.

ettlements

*Agia Paraskevi
*Katsiviri?
*Stena
*Kalyvizes
*Kato Kokkini Spilia
*Ano Kokkini Spilia

Nearest places

*Kineta (east)
*Kalamaki (west)

Historical population

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.

External links

* [http://www.agioitheodoroi.com/ Local commercial website]

ee also

*Communities of Corinthia