MANDRA

'Mandra' (Greek: 'Μάνδρα', meaning "yard"), also 'Mandhra' is a town in the westcentral part of the prefecture of Attica in Greece, it is part of the Athens area. It is near the east coast of the Greek mainland. It has mild summers and fairly cold winters. Mandra’s population now is around 15,000 and it’s quite famous for their big industrial zone, since it's very close to the capital of Greece. Magoula is bypassed with the GR-3 (Athens - Thiva). Mandra is linked with the GR-8A/E94 (Athens - Corinth - Patras) and the old GR-8 as well as the Attiki Odos since February 2004 with its exit north. Its junction lies further south and was constructed in 2001 and opened in 2004. The area around Mandra has farmlands located near the boundary with Magoula, the mountains including Pateras lies to the west and more to the north. Mandra is located about 25 km northwest of Athens, about 5 km north of Elefsina, ENE of Corinth and southeast of SSE of Thiva.

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Economy

Subdivisions

Nearest places

Historical population

Other

External links

Economy

The industrial area of Elefsina lies to the south while residential buildings lies to the north. Prior to the 1970s, agriculture was the predominant industry in Mandra. Housing developments arrived in the 1970s. Problems such as drug smuggling and prostitution increased.

Subdivisions

★ Agia Sotiria

★ Viliarti

Nearest places

★ Agios Vlassios, north

★ Magoula, east

★ Eleusis/Elefsina and Patima, southeast

★ Loutsa, southwest

★ Viliarti, northwest

Historical population

Year	Population	Change	Municipal population
1981	8,804	-	-
1991	10,012	1,208/13.72%	11,343

Other

Mandra has schools, lyceums or middle schools, gymnasia or high schools, churches, a post office, banks and squares (''plateies'').

External links

★ GTP Travel Pages (Municipality) (in English and Greek)

★ 'Map and aerial photos':

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★ Street map: Street map from Mapquest, MapPoint or Google or Yahoo! Maps

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★ Satellite images: Google or Microsoft Virtual Earth - image now available

★ Coordinates:

'Northwest:' Erythres	'North:' Dervenochori and Oinoi (community)
'West:' Megara	'Mandra'	'East:' Magoula (community)
'Southwest:' Nea Peramos	'South:' Elefsina