Vilia ( el, Βίλια; formerly Eidyllia, Ειδυλλία) is a village and a former

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

West Attica West Attica ( el, Δυτική Αττική) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Attica. The regional unit covers the western part of the agglomeration of Athens, and the area to its west. Administration The region ...

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with ...

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

Mandra-Eidyllia Mandra-Eidyllia ( el, Μάνδρα-Ειδύλλια) is a municipality in the West Attica regional unit, Attica, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Mandra. The municipality has an area of 426.197 km2. Municipality The municipa ...

, of which it is a municipal unit. Its population was 1,753 at the 2011 census. It is part of Athens metropolitan area. The inhabitants of Vilia are

Arvanites Arvanites (; Arvanitika: , or , ; Greek: , ) are a bilingual population group in Greece of Albanian origin. They traditionally speak Arvanitika, an Albanian language variety, along with Greek. Their ancestors were first recorded as settlers ...

.Adamou E. & Drettas G. 2008, Slave, Le patrimoine plurilingue de la Grèce – Le nom des langues II, E. Adamou (éd.), BCILL 121, Leuven, Peeters, p.54.

Geography

The municipal unit Vilia covers the mountainous northwestern part of

Attica Attica ( el, Αττική, Ancient Greek ''Attikḗ'' or , or ), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and its countryside. It is a peninsula projecting into the Aegean Se ...

, and has a land area of 144.851 km². The main mountain ranges are

Cithaeron Cithaeron or Kithairon (Κιθαιρών, -ῶνος) is a mountain and mountain range about sixteen kilometres (ten miles) long in Central Greece. The range is the physical boundary between Boeotia in the north and Attica in the south. It is mai ...

(1,409 m) in the northwest and

Pastra Pastra ( el, Πάστρα) is a village and a community in the southeastern part of the island of Kefalonia, Greece. It was the seat of the municipality of Eleios-Pronnoi. The community consists of the villages Pastra (population 133 in 2011) an ...

in the northeast. In the west it stretches along the coast of the

Alkyonides Gulf The Alkyonides Gulf ( el, Κόλπος Αλκυονίδων - ''Kolpos Alkyonidon'') is a bay that connects with the Gulf of Corinth to the west. The bay is approximately 20 to 25 km long and 20 km wide. It stretches from Aigosthena to ...

, a bay of the

Gulf of Corinth The Gulf of Corinth or the Corinthian Gulf ( el, Κορινθιακός Kόλπος, ''Korinthiakόs Kόlpos'', ) is a deep inlet of the Ionian Sea, separating the Peloponnese from western mainland Greece. It is bounded in the east by the Isth ...

. The village Vilia, the largest in the municipal unit, lies in the easternmost part, at the southeastern foot of Cithaeron. Vilia is 6 km south of

Erythres Erythres ( el, Ερυθρές, formerly known as Kriekouki, Greek: Κριεκούκι) is a village and a former municipality in the northernmost part of West Attica, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality M ...

, 7 km west of

Oinoi Oinoi ( el, Οινόη) is a village and a former community in the northern part of West Attica, Greece. The village was named Mazi ( el, Μάζι) until 1919. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Mandra-Eidyllia, ...

, 10 km east of the coastal village

Aigosthena Aigosthena ( grc, Αἰγόσθενα) was an ancient Greek fortified port city of Megaris, northwest of the ancient city of Megara to which it belonged. It is also the name of the coastal settlement at the foot of the ancient city walls, also kn ...

, 17 km south of Thebes and 40 km northwest of

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

. The municipal unit's largest villages are Vilia (pop. 1,269 in 2011), Kato Alepochori (220), Aigosthena (80), Veniza (52), and Agios Nektarios (40).

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Vilia consists of the following villages: *Vilia *Agia Paraskevi *Agios Konstantinos *Agios Nektarios *

(also ''Porto Germeno'') *Ano Alepochori *Veniza *Kato Alepochori *Kryo Pigadi *Loumpa *Mytikas *Profitis Ilias *Psatha

Historical population

Notable people

Ellie Lambeti Ellie Loukou ( el, Έλλη Λούκου; 13 April 1926 – 3 September 1983), known professionally as Ellie Lambeti ( el, Έλλη Λαμπέτη), was a Greek actress. Family Lambeti was born in 1926 in the village of Vilia, Attiki, to Kos ...

(1926–1983) actress

References

External links

Official website

West AtticaVilia (municipality) on GTP Travel Pages
(in English and Greek) {{Authority control Populated places in West Attica Arvanite settlements