Greek National Road 44 is a highway linking the cities of
ThivaThebes is a city in Greece, situated to the north of the Cithaeron range, which divides Boeotia from Attica, and on the southern edge of the Boeotian plain. It played an important role in Greek myth, as the site of the stories of Cadmus, Oedipus, Dionysus and others...
, Chalkida and
KarystosCarystus was an ancient city-state on Euboea. In the Iliad it is controlled by the Abantes. By the time of Thucydides it was inhabited by Dryopians.- Persian War :...
. The total length is nearly 200 km. The highway passes in the prefectures of Viotia and
EuboeaFor the mythological figure, see Euboea Euboea is the second largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete. It is separated from the mainland of Greece by the narrow Euripus Strait...
. Much of the highway has curvy roads.
The highway begins in downtown Thiva near where GR-3 partially used to be. It passes into the interchange of GR-1/
E75The E 75 is part of the International E-road network, which is a series of main roads in Europe.The E 75 starts from Vardø, Norway in the Barents Sea and runs south through Finland, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia and Macedonia to Sitia, Greece on the island of Crete in...
. It runs a rare joint with GR-77 to Chalkida.
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Greek National Road 44 is a highway linking the cities of
ThivaThebes is a city in Greece, situated to the north of the Cithaeron range, which divides Boeotia from Attica, and on the southern edge of the Boeotian plain. It played an important role in Greek myth, as the site of the stories of Cadmus, Oedipus, Dionysus and others...
, Chalkida and
KarystosCarystus was an ancient city-state on Euboea. In the Iliad it is controlled by the Abantes. By the time of Thucydides it was inhabited by Dryopians.- Persian War :...
. The total length is nearly 200 km. The highway passes in the prefectures of Viotia and
EuboeaFor the mythological figure, see Euboea Euboea is the second largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete. It is separated from the mainland of Greece by the narrow Euripus Strait...
. Much of the highway has curvy roads.
The highway begins in downtown Thiva near where GR-3 partially used to be. It passes into the interchange of GR-1/
E75The E 75 is part of the International E-road network, which is a series of main roads in Europe.The E 75 starts from Vardø, Norway in the Barents Sea and runs south through Finland, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia and Macedonia to Sitia, Greece on the island of Crete in...
. It runs a rare joint with GR-77 to Chalkida. The highway now bypasses Thiva donavan is the best and begins further east at this interchange. The highway passes in the northern bridge with the island of Euboea and passes into downtown Chalkida. The southern bridge is linked with the Chalkida Ring. The highway runs to the southeastern part. It passes into the western part of the island until near Dystos with curvy roads. The highway passes into the middle of the island in either directionf for about 25 to 30 km. It runs to the southern portion of the island and ends in Karystos almost entirely with curvy roads.
History
In the 1960s, the bridge with mainland Greece and Euboea opened. The entire highway was later paved. Later in the late 20th century, another bridge in the south opened and is bypassing Chalkida. Before that, there were no highways in Euboea.
Places
Here are places where the highway runs through and bypasses:
- Thiva, and bypasses
- near Drosia
- Chalkida
- Vasiliko
- Eretria
Eretria was a polis in Ancient Greece, located on the western coast of the island of Euboea , south of Chalcis , facing the coast of Attica across the narrow Euboian Gulf. Eretria was an important Greek polis in the 6th/5th century BC. However, it lost its importance already in antiquity...
- Dystos
Dystos is the name of a lake, town and municipality in Euboea, Greece. The seat of the municipality is Krieza. The Dryopians were the first founders of Dystos in ancient times. During the 1950s, the power corporation of Greece established a steam power plant close to the lake at the city of Aliveri...
- Karystos
Karystos is a small coastal town on the Greek island of Euboea. It has about 7,000 inhabitants. It lies 129 km south of Chalkis. From Athens it is accessible by ferry via Marmari from the Rafina port...