GRAVIA

'Municipality of Gravia' '''Δήμος Γραβιάς''' '''Dimos Gravias'
Statistics
Prefecture:	Fokida
Province:	Parnassida
Number of municipal districts:	8 (see below)
Location: Latitude: Longitude:	38.6696 (38° 40' 6") N 22.4432 (22° 25' 37") E
Population: (2001) -Municipality -Town -Percent of the municipality -Percent of the prefecture	2,975 897 30.15% 6.16% /km²
Altitude:  -lowest:  -centre:	about 100 m (south) 400 m about 1,700 m (southeast)
Postal code:	GR-330 57
Area/distance code:	11-(00)30-26940
Car designation (as of 2006):	AM
Website:	www.gravia.gr

'Gravia' (Greek: Γραβιά) is a municipality in the northeastern part of the Phocis, Greece. Its 2001 population was 897 for the village and 2,975 for the municipality. It is one of several municipalities in the prefecture that do not have settlements. The municipality is bounded with the Fthiotida Prefecture to the north and northeast. Gravia is linked with the road linking with the GR-27 (Itea - Amfisssa - Lamia. Gravia is located south of Lamia, northwest of Livadia and north of Amfissa and Itea.

Contents

Municipal districts

Geography

Information

History

Population

Sporting clubs

Other

See also

External links

Municipal districts

★ Apostolia

★ 'Gravia'

★ Kaloskopi

★ Kastellia

★ Mariolata

★ Oinochori

★ Sklithro

★ Vargiani

Geography

Gravia is situated on a mountain slope. Farmlands are in the valley areas and much of the area are mountainous. The forests are in low lying areas as well as the mid-elevation, grasslands and barren land are in the higher parts. The Parnassus mountains are to the southeast and the Oeta mountains to the north. Its main industry area agriculture with some services. Not too many work outside the municipality.

Information

Schimatari has 2 km of local roads and approximately 20 to 25 km of hydro lines. Much of the houses were stone built until the 1960s. Electricity arrived in the same year. Vehicles arrived in the 1970s, the pavement of the main road and television arrived in the 1980s and computer and internet are rarely known in the beginning of the 21st century and up to date technology are not seen.

History

After World War II and the Greek Civil War, its buildings were rebuilt. Its population also declined but it recovered between the 1991 and the 2001 census.

Population

Year	Population	Change	Municipal district population	Chagne	Percent of the municipal district	Percent of the municipality
1981	918	-	-	-	-	-
1991	887	-31 or -3.38%	3,361	-	-	-
2001	897	+10 or +1,13%	2,975	-386 or -11.48%	30.15%	6.16%

Sporting clubs

★ Androutsos Gravia

Other

Gravia has a church, a lyceum (middle school) a gymnasium (secondary school), churches, banks, shops and a square (''plateia'').

See also

★ List of settlements in the Boeotia prefecture

External links

★ Official website of the municipality of Gravia

★ Gravia on the GTP Travel Pages

★ 'Map and Aerial Photos':

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★ Street Map Information: Mapquest, LiveLocal, Google orYahoo! Maps

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★ Satellite Images: Google or Microsoft Virtual Earth

★ Coordinates:

	'North:' Fthiotida Prefecture
'West:' Kallies	'Gravia'	'East:' Parnassos
	'South:' Amfissa