Information AboutLechaeum |
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| corinthia | |
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HISTORICAL POPULATION OTHER The community has a school, a church, a train station that is located north of the centre, a beach with a campsite {Link without Title} , a small airport and a square ('' Plateia ''). The area is filled with mixed farming along with olive groves, citrus groves, pastures and other fruits and vegetables and some forests. The mountain of Acrocorinth lies to the southeast. This place had an ancient harbor and had connections of a small harbor in Schinouda , now Kalamaki in the Saronic Gulf . The old naval base of Atratinus was probably in Lechaeum. An ancient road the marble-paved Lechaion Road which was connected with Corinth . The 8th Sparta n mora (regiment) was defeated by the Athenians (led by Iphicrates ) at Lechaeum in the times of Aegislaus , in the Battle Of Lechaeum . The Roman bath was situated on the Lechaeum Road was built in the 3rd Century AD. A novel named '' The Great Bath On The Lechaion Road '' is about the Lechaion Road and was published Jane C. Biers . Lechaio has schools, lyceums, a few gymnasia, churches, a port, beaches, a sporting team (Iraklis Lechaio), a post office, and squares '' Plateies ''. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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