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Central Greece

Continental Greece ( - Stereá Elláda, earlier ???s?? ?????) or Central Greece ( - Kentrikí Elláda), colloquially known as Roúmeli
Rumelia

Rumelia or Rumeli is a Turkish name, used from the 15th century onwards, for the southern Balkan regions of the Ottoman Empire. "Rumeli" literally translates as "land of the Romans", in reference to the Byzantine Empire, the former dominant power in the area....
(???µe??), is a geographical region

Regions of Greece

The regions are the traditional administrative divisions of Greece, still widely used in daily discourse. There are 10 regions , which are further subdivided into 54 Prefectures of Greece....
of Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
. Its territory is divided into the peripheries of Central Greece

Central Greece (periphery)

The periphery of Continental Greece or Central Greece is one of the thirteen peripheries of Greece. It is divided into the Prefectures of Greece of Euboea, Evrytania, Phocis, Phthiotis, and Boeotia Prefecture....
, Attica

Attica

Attica is a Peripheries of Greece in Greece, containing Athens, the capital of Greece. Attica is subdivided into the prefectures of Greece of Athens Prefecture, Piraeus Prefecture, East Attica and West Attica....
, and one prefecture

Prefectures of Greece

Greece consists of 13 administrative regions known as Peripheries of Greece, which are further subdivided into 3 Super-prefectures of Greece and 54 prefectures or nomes ....
of West Greece

West Greece

West Greece is one of the thirteen peripheries of Greece. It is divided into the Prefectures of Greece of Achaea, Aetolia-Acarnania and Elis Prefecture....
. Although Attica is part of the geographical region of Central Greece, it has recently been considered a separate region in itself.

region has traditionally been known as Roúmeli (???µe??), a name deriving from the Turkish

Turkish language

Turkish is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Cyprus, with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and other parts of Eastern Europe....
word Rumelia
Rumelia

Rumelia or Rumeli is a Turkish name, used from the 15th century onwards, for the southern Balkan regions of the Ottoman Empire. "Rumeli" literally translates as "land of the Romans", in reference to the Byzantine Empire, the former dominant power in the area....
or Rumeli, meaning "the land of the Rum [the Romans, i.e.

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Regions of Greece

Greece

Central Greece (periphery)

Attica

Prefectures of Greece

Greece consists of 13 administrative regions known as Peripheries of Greece, which are further subdivided into 3 Super-prefectures of Greece and 54 prefectures or nomes ....
of West Greece

West Greece

Etymology

The region has traditionally been known as Roúmeli (???µe??), a name deriving from the Turkish

Turkish language

Byzantine

The word Byzantine may refer to:Topics directly related to the Byzantine Empire* A citizen of Byzantine Empire, or native Greeks during the Middle Ages ....
Greeks

Greeks

The Greeks , also known as Hellenes, are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, who can also be found in Greek diaspora communities around the world....
]". The official name Stereá Elláda ("Continental" or "Mainland" Greece), derives from the fact that Central Greece was, along with the Peloponnese peninsula, the first region to form the modern Greek state.

Geography

Central Greece is the most populous geographical region of Greece, with a population of 4,591,568 people, and covers an area of 24,818.3 km², making it the second largest of the country. It is located to the north of the Peloponnese

Peloponnese

The Peloponnese or Peloponnesus is a large peninsula and Regions of Greece in southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth....
and to the south of Thessaly

Thessaly

Thessaly is one of the 13 Peripheries of Greece of Greece, and is further sub-divided into 4 Prefectures of Greece. The capital of the periphery and traditional Regions of Greece is Larissa....
and Epirus

Epirus

The name Epirus, from the Greek language "?pe????" meaning continent may refer to:...
, bordering the Aegean Sea

Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkans and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey respectively....
to the east, the Ionian Sea

Ionian Sea

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, by southwestern Albania, including Saranda and Himara, and a large number of Greek islands, including Corfu, Zante, Kephalonia, Ithaka, and Lefkas to the east....
to the west and the Corinthian Gulf to the south. Its climate is temperate along its coastlines, and dry in the interior.

Mountains

The region is one of the most mountainous in Greece, having some of the highest elevations in the country.

Number Number A number is a mathematical object used in counting and measurement. A notational symbol which represents a number is called a Numeral system, but in common usage the word number is used for both the abstract object and the symbol, as well as for the numeral for the number....	Mountain Mountain A mountain is a landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area usually in the form of a peak. A mountain is generally steeper than a hill....	Height Height Height is the measurement of vertical distance, but has two meanings in common use. It can either indicate how "tall" something is, or how "high up" it is.... (m)	Placed in Greece	Prefecture Prefecture Prefecture indicates the office, seat, territorial circumscription of a Prefect. The term prefecture is also used to refer to offices analogous to prefectures....
1	Giona	2,510	5th	Phocis Phocis Phocis is an ancient district and a modern Prefectures of Greece of Greece, located in Central Greece, stretching from the western mountainsides of Mount Parnassus on the east to the mountain range of Vardousia on the west, upon the Gulf of Corinth....
2	Vardousia Vardousia Vardousia is a municipality in Phocis, Greece. Population 2,216 . The seat of the municipality is in Krokyleio. It is one of several municipalities that does not have any settlements....	2,495	7th	Phocis Phocis Phocis is an ancient district and a modern Prefectures of Greece of Greece, located in Central Greece, stretching from the western mountainsides of Mount Parnassus on the east to the mountain range of Vardousia on the west, upon the Gulf of Corinth....
3	Parnassus Mount Parnassus Mount Parnassus is a mountain of barren limestone in central Greece that towers above Delphi, north of the Gulf of Corinth, and offers scenic views of the surrounding olive groves and countryside....	2,457	9th	Phocis Phocis Phocis is an ancient district and a modern Prefectures of Greece of Greece, located in Central Greece, stretching from the western mountainsides of Mount Parnassus on the east to the mountain range of Vardousia on the west, upon the Gulf of Corinth.... , Boeotia Boeotia Prefecture Boeotia is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the Central Greece periphery, and its area was known in ancient times. Its capital is Livadeia, the second largest city being Thebes, Greece, and the area has access to the island of Euboea via two bridges : one that runs through Chalcis, and another bypassing it with a further road...
4	Tymfristos Tymfristos Tymfristos is a community in Phthiotis, Greece. Population 566 ....	2,315	16th	Evrytania Evrytania Evrytania is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the periphery of Central Greece and its capital is Karpenisi . The prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Aitolia-Acarnania prefecture.... , Phthiotis Phthiotis Phthiotis 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 Prefecture in the north, Larissa Prefecture in the north, and Magnesia in the northeast....
5	Oeta Mount Oeta Mount Oeta is a mountain to the south of Central Greece, in Greece, forming a boundary between the valleys of the Spercheius and the Boeotian Cephissus ....	2,152	22nd	Phthiotis Phthiotis Phthiotis 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 Prefecture in the north, Larissa Prefecture in the north, and Magnesia in the northeast....

Lakes

Central Greece has also some of the largest lakes in Greece, while amongst the most important is Mornos

Mornos

The Mornos is a river that flows in the Fokida and Aitoloakarnania prefectures in Greece. Its source is in the Mount Oeta mountains...
lake in Phocis

Phocis

Phocis is an ancient district and a modern Prefectures of Greece of Greece, located in Central Greece, stretching from the western mountainsides of Mount Parnassus on the east to the mountain range of Vardousia on the west, upon the Gulf of Corinth....
, which supplies water around the prefecture, parts of the Phthiotis

Phthiotis

Phthiotis 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 Prefecture in the north, Larissa Prefecture in the north, and Magnesia in the northeast....
and Boeotia

Boeotia

Boeotia, Beotia, or B?otia , formerly Cadmeis, was a region of ancient Greece, north of the eastern part of the Gulf of Corinth. It was bounded on the south by Megaris and the Kithairon mountain range that forms a natural barrier with Attica, on the north by Opuntian Locris and the Euripus Strait at the Gulf of Euboea, and on the...
prefectures and Athens

Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
as well.

Number Number A number is a mathematical object used in counting and measurement. A notational symbol which represents a number is called a Numeral system, but in common usage the word number is used for both the abstract object and the symbol, as well as for the numeral for the number....	Lake Lake A lake is a terrain feature , a body of liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the bottom of basin and moves slowly if it moves at all....	Area Area Area is a quantity expressing the two-dimensional size of a defined part of a surface, typically a region bounded by a closed curve. The term surface area refers to the total area of the exposed surface of a 3-dimensional solid, such as the sum of the areas of the exposed sides of a polyhedron.... (km²)	Placed in Greece	Prefecture Prefecture Prefecture indicates the office, seat, territorial circumscription of a Prefect. The term prefecture is also used to refer to offices analogous to prefectures....
1	Trichonida Lake Trichonida Lake Trichonida, also Trihonida or Trikhonida , older forms: Trihonis and Trikhonis ancient: Trichonis is the largest natural lake in Greece....	96,513	1st	Aetolia-Acarnania Aetolia-Acarnania Aetolia-Acarnania, is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the western part of Greece; the prefecture is a combination of the regions Aetolia and Acarnania, and its capital for historical reasons is Mesolongi, with its biggest city and economic centre at Agrinion....
2	Yliki	22,731	9th	Boeotia Boeotia Prefecture Boeotia is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the Central Greece periphery, and its area was known in ancient times. Its capital is Livadeia, the second largest city being Thebes, Greece, and the area has access to the island of Euboea via two bridges : one that runs through Chalcis, and another bypassing it with a further road...
3	Amvrakia	13,619	13th	Aetolia-Acarnania Aetolia-Acarnania Aetolia-Acarnania, is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the western part of Greece; the prefecture is a combination of the regions Aetolia and Acarnania, and its capital for historical reasons is Mesolongi, with its biggest city and economic centre at Agrinion....
4	Lysimachia Lake Lysimachia Lysimachia, Lisimachia, Lysimahia or Lisimahia is a lake located west of Agrinio. The Acheloos river flows to the northwest with an artificial flow now to the east and an old natural flow near the lake....	13,200	14th	Aetolia-Acarnania Aetolia-Acarnania Aetolia-Acarnania, is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the western part of Greece; the prefecture is a combination of the regions Aetolia and Acarnania, and its capital for historical reasons is Mesolongi, with its biggest city and economic centre at Agrinion....
5	Ozeros Ozeros Lake Ozeros is a lake located west of Agrinio. The Acheloos river flows to the northwest. The lake is about 5 km in length and 3 km in width....	10,013	16th	Aetolia-Acarnania Aetolia-Acarnania Aetolia-Acarnania, is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the western part of Greece; the prefecture is a combination of the regions Aetolia and Acarnania, and its capital for historical reasons is Mesolongi, with its biggest city and economic centre at Agrinion....

Rivers

Some important and well known rivers of Central Greece are Acheloos

Acheloos River

The Acheloos , also Achelous, is a river in western Greece. It formed the boundary between Acarnania and Aetolia of antiquity. It empties into the Ionian Sea....
in Aetolia-Acarnania which is the second longest of the country, Spercheios

Spercheios River

The Spercheios is a river in the Central Greece geographical region, of Greece. The river begins in Eurytania prefectures of Greece in the Panaitoliko mountains and flows northeast from near Megalo Chorio and into Karpenisi and flows within Greece Interstate 28 and through Agios Georgios Tymfistos south of the Tymfistos and into the prefec...
in Phthiotis, Evenus

Evenus

The Evinos, Evenus, or Euenos is a river in Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece. It rises in the mountains near Artotina, and empties 92 km later into the north side of the Gulf of Patras near Krioneri, east of the Messolonghi lagoon....
in Aetolia-Acarnania and Mornos

Mornos

The Mornos is a river that flows in the Fokida and Aitoloakarnania prefectures in Greece. Its source is in the Mount Oeta mountains...
in Phocis.

Cities

The principal cities of the region of Central Greece according to the census of 2001 are:

Athens
Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....

3,130,841 (Athens metropolitan area)

including all the towns around Athens urban area

3,761,810)
Chalkida

53,584

Lamia
Lamia (city)

Lamia is a city in central Greece. The city has a continuous history since Antiquity, and is today the capital of the Prefectures of Greece of Phthiotis and periphery of Central Greece ....

46,406

Agrinio
Agrinio

Agrinion is the largest city and a municipality of the Aetolia-Acarnania prefectures of Greece of Greece, with about 100,000 inhabitants home to around a quarter of the prefecture's population....

42,390

Thebes
Thebes, Greece

Thebes is a city in Greece, situated to the north of the Cithaeron range, which divides Boeotia from Attica, Greece, and on the southern edge of the Boeotian plain....

21,211

Livadeia
Livadeia

Livadeia is a city in central Greece. It is the capital of the prefecture Boeotia Prefecture. Levadia is located 130 km NW of Athens, E of Nafpaktos, ESE of Amfissa and Desfina, SE of Lamia and west of Chalkida....

20,061

Culture

Roumelian music and dances

Roumelian dances

Greek dances

Greek dance is a very old tradition, being referred to by ancient authors such as Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch and Lucian. There are different styles and interpretations from all of the islands and surrounding mainland areas....
tend to be slow and controlled. The clarinet

Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular type of trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet....
is the main instrument in this region. The main dances of this region are Tsamiko

Tsamiko

The Tsamiko is a popular traditional dance of Albania and Greece and is considered a national dance in both countries. The name literally means dance of the Chams, because it is the traditional dance of Cham Albanians....
s (an ancient warrior dance, in which the leader performs energetic leaps), Mazochto and Kangeli.

Central Greece

Etymology

Geography

Mountains

Lakes

Rivers

Cities

Culture

Roumelian music and dances

See also

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