Lavreotiki Municipality

Also known as Lawreotiki

Lavreotiki () is a municipality at the southeasternnmost tip of the Attica peninsula in the Greek regional unit of East Attica. Its municipal seat is the town of Lavrio.

Key facts

Greek Dimos.name: Lavreotiki
Greek Dimos.name_local: Λαυρεωτική
Greek Dimos.type: municipality
Greek Dimos.image_map: 2011 Dimos Lavreotikis.png
Greek Dimos.georegion: Central Greece
Greek Dimos.periph: Attica
Greek Dimos.periphunit: East Attica
Greek Dimos.pop_municipality: 25199
Greek Dimos.area_municipality: 175.80
Greek Dimos.pop_municunit: 10046
Greek Dimos.area_municunit: 35.484
Greek Dimos.population_as_of: 2021

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Lavreotiki () is a municipality at the southeasternnmost tip of the Attica peninsula in the Greek regional unit of East Attica. Its municipal seat is the town of Lavrio.

It is historically important as a significant ancient mining district, most notably in the villages of Lavrio and Thorikos on the southeastern seaboard during the 6th, 5th, and 4th centuries BCE. As such it financed the wealth of Athens and the emergence of the Athenian Empire through the slave-powered mining efforts for silver and lead, beginning with the discovery of 2 deep-vein mining efforts during the 480's. Prior to that development, which at Themistocles urging in 483 BC led to the expansion of the Athenian fleet to 200 ships, only surface-mining was deployed as a technique for harvesting silver. More than 250 ore washeries have been identified by archaeologists and geologists in the district.