Elateia
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 38.646, 22.783
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Phokis
History
Elateia was an ancient Greek city of Phthiotis, and the most important place in that region after Delphi. It is also a modern-day town that is a former municipality in the southeastern part of Phthiotis. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is a municipal unit of the municipality Amfikleia-Elateia. Its population is 2,804 inhabitants and its land area is 154.361 km2. The municipal seat was the town of Eláteia ; other communities are Zeli (466), Panagítsa (148), Lefkochóri (99) and Sfáka (89).