Phocis Regional Unit
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Phocis (; ; ) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Central Greece. It stretches from the western mountainsides of Parnassus on the east to the mountain range of Vardousia on the west, upon the Gulf of Corinth. It is named after the ancient region of Phocis, but the modern regional unit also includes parts of ancient Aetolia, Locris and Doris.
Key facts
- Greece place.name
- Phocis
- Greece place.name_local
- Περιφερειακή ενότηταΦωκίδας
- Greece place.type
- regional unit
- Greece place.image_skyline
- 2010 Dimi Fokidas numbered.svg
- Greece place.caption_skyline
- Municipalities of Phocis
- Greece place.image_map
- Nomos Fokidas.png
- Greece place.map_caption
- Phocis within Greece
- Greece place.periph
- Central Greece
- Greece place.seat
- Amfissa
- Greece place.area
- 2120
- Greece place.population
- 36199
- Greece place.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greece place.postal_code
- 33x xx
- Greece place.area_code
- 226x0, 26340
- Greece place.licence
- ΑΜ
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- regional unit of Greece
- Country
- Greece
- Located in
- Central Greece Region
- Contains
- Dorida Municipality
- Capital
- Amfissa
- Population
- 44963
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- replaces
- Phocis Prefecture
- Commons category
- Phocis
- topic's main category
- Category:Phocis
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Administration
- Prefecture
- Municipalities
- Former provinces
- Demographics
- Population statistics
- Notable people
- Sporting teams
- History
- Ancient History
- Byzantine era
- Frankokratia
- Ottoman era and Greek War of Independence
- See also
- Attribution
- References
- External links
Phocis (; ; ) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Central Greece. It stretches from the western mountainsides of Parnassus on the east to the mountain range of Vardousia on the west, upon the Gulf of Corinth. It is named after the ancient region of Phocis, but the modern regional unit also includes parts of ancient Aetolia, Locris and Doris.
==Geography== Modern Phocis has an area of , of which are forested, are plains, and the remainder is mountainous. The massive ridge of Parnassus (, which traverses the heart of the country, divides it into two distinct portions. The neighbouring prefectures are Aetolia-Acarnania to the west, Phthiotis to the north and Boeotia to the east. It also shares a tiny border with Evrytania. Much of the south and east are deforested and rocky and mountainous while the valley runs from Itea up to Amfissa. Forests and green spaces are to the west, the central part and the north.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Phocis Regional Unit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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