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Leuctra
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Lefktra (, ) is a village in the regional unit of Boeotia, Greece, and a part of the municipality of Thebes. Before 1915, its name was Parapoungia (). Lefktra is located in the foothills of Mount Kithairon at 353 meters average elevation. The population of Lefktra is 779 people (2021 census). Thebes is sixteen kilometers away and Athens 70 km away, via the old national road. There are bus lines from Thebes to Lefktra and vice versa daily, and from Athens to Lefktra at the weekends. Residents' main occupations are agriculture and stockbreeding. Livadostra and Koromili beaches are ten minut
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- Locality
- Δημοτική Ενότητα Πλαταιών
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Στερεάς Ελλάδας
- Country
- Ελλάς
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Greece place.name
- Lefktra
- Greece place.name_local
- Λεύκτρα
- Greece place.type
- community
- Greece place.image_skyline
- Καπαρέλλι-Λεύκτρα.jpg
- Greece place.periph
- Central Greece
- Greece place.periphunit
- Boeotia
- Greece place.municipality
- Thebes
- Greece place.municunit
- Plataies
- Greece place.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greece place.population
- 779
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 1019
- Elevation
- 344
- Image
- Καπαρέλλι-Λεύκτρα.jpg
- Dialing code
- 2262
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- native label
- Λεύκτρα
- Commons category
- Leuctra (village)
- postal code
- 322 00
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Lefktra (, ) is a village in the regional unit of Boeotia, Greece, and a part of the municipality of Thebes. Before 1915, its name was Parapoungia (). Lefktra is located in the foothills of Mount Kithairon at 353 meters average elevation. The population of Lefktra is 779 people (2021 census). Thebes is sixteen kilometers away and Athens 70 km away, via the old national road. There are bus lines from Thebes to Lefktra and vice versa daily, and from Athens to Lefktra at the weekends. Residents' main occupations are agriculture and stockbreeding. Livadostra and Koromili beaches are ten minutes away by car.
Between 1912 and 1997 Lefktra was an independent community (an independent municipality after 1989). In 1997, at the Kapodistrias reform, it was merged into the municipality Plataies, along with the communities Melissochori, Loutoufi and Kaparelli. In 2010, at the Kallikratis reform, Plataies was merged into the municipality of Thebes.
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