Atalanti is a town and a former municipality in southeastern Phthiotis

Phthiotis

Phthiotis is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Central Greece. The capital is the city of Lamia. It is bordered by the Malian Gulf to the east, Boeotia in the south, Phocis in the south, Aetolia-Acarnania in the southwest, Evrytania in the west,...

, Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Lokroi

Lokroi (municipality)

Lokroi is a municipality in the Phthiotis regional unit, Central Greece, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Atalanti.-Municipality:...

, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. Atalanti is a known market town, and it was the capital of the former Locris Province

Locris Province

-References:* http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Επαρχίες_της_Ελλάδας...

. Atalanti is the second largest town in Phthiotis, after Lamia

Lamia (city)

Lamia is a city in central Greece. The city has a continuous history since antiquity, and is today the capital of the regional unit of Phthiotis and of the Central Greece region .-Name:...

. The town is accessed with the Greek National Road 1

Greek National Road 1

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 (Athens - Lamia - Thessaloniki). Atalanti is located southeast of Lamia, north of Livadeia

Livadeia

Livadeia is a city in central Greece. It is the capital of the prefecture Boeotia. Livadeia is located 130 km NW of Athens, E of Nafpaktos, ESE of Amfissa and Desfina, SE of Lamia and west of Chalkida. Livadeia is linked with GR-48 and several kilometres west of GR-3. The area around Livadeia...

 and northwest of Chalcis

Chalcis

Chalcis or Chalkida , the chief town of the island of Euboea in Greece, is situated on the strait of the Evripos at its narrowest point. The name is preserved from antiquity and is derived from the Greek χαλκός , though there is no trace of any mines in the area...

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Atalanti is home to the APO Atalantis and Atalanti '92 football clubs.

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Atalanti is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets):

• Atalanti (Atalanti, Agios Vlasios, Palirroia, Skala)
• Exarchos
• Kalapodi
  Kalapodi
  Kalapodi is a village in the Lokroi municipality, Phthiotis, Central Greece. The name also denotes an archaeological site ca. 1 km east of the village, where an ancient sanctuary was discovered. Cult activity here seems to have begun in the late Bronze Age and continued without break into the...
  
  
• Kyparissi (Kyparissi, Efkalyptos)
• Kyrtoni
• Megaplatanos
• Tragana (Tragana, Mikrovivos)

Historical population

Year	Town population	Municipality population
1940	4,041	-
1981	5,562	-
1991	6,189	10,240
2001	6,127	10,367

External links

• Official website
• Atalanti (municipality) on GTP Travel Pages (in English and Greek)
• Atalanti (community) on GTP Travel Pages (in English and Greek)