{{Short description|Town in Phthiotis, Greece}} {{Infobox Greek Dimos |name = Kato Tithorea |name_local = Κάτω Τιθορέα |type = community |image_map = |map_caption = | periph = Central Greece | periphunit = Phthiotis |municipality = Amfikleia-Elateia |municunit = Tithorea |pop_community = 1453 |population_as_of = 2021 |area_community = |elevation = |coordinates = {{coord|38|36|N|22|43|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |postal_code = |area_code = |licence = ΜΙ |website = |image_skyline = 20080531-7520-Tithorea-A367.jpg |caption_skyline = Kato Tithorea's train station before it was renovated }} '''Kato Tithorea''' ({{langx|el|Κάτω Τιθορέα}}, {{em|Lower Tithorea}}) is a town in Phthiotis, in central Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Amfikleia-Elateia, of which it is the seat.<ref name=Kallikratis>{{Cite web|url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL81-32jgAMSfbnMRVjyfnPUeJInJ48_97uHrMts-zFzeyCiBSQOpYnT00MHhcXFRTsb2fGphpq4MKX2ZkaHobySNnvZCNHXvYVvlf80XevW0Q.|title=ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities|language=el|publisher=Government Gazette}}</ref> It has a population 1,841 according to the 2011 Greek census. It is situated on the right bank of the river Cephissus and between the Parnassus and Kallidromo mountains, 11 km east of Amfikleia and 24 km northwest of Livadeia. Nearby places includes Panagitsa (northeast), Agia Paraskevi (southeast) and Tithorea (southwest).
==Name== The town first appears in the modern era, as Καλύβια Τιθορέας (literally {{em|Tithorea Shacks}}).<ref name="dimotiko">{{Cite web |url=http://dim-kat-tiroth.fth.sch.gr/?page_id=1811 |title=Ο Τόπος Μας |language=el |trans-title=Our Place |website=Kato Tithorea Elementary |access-date=2019-09-19}}</ref> Between 1912 and 1955 the village was called Κηφισοχώριον (Kifisochorion),<ref name="dimotiko" /> literally {{em|Village of Cephissus}}, in reference of the local river. The new name of Kato Tithorea, literally {{em|Lower Tithorea}}, was adopted on 11 May 1955 and is in reference to the nearby village of Tithorea, which traces its roots to the ancient Phocian town of the same name mentioned by Pausanias and Herodotus among others.<ref name="Kifisichorion">{{Cite web |url=http://pandektis.ekt.gr/pandektis/handle/10442/170845 |title=Pandektis: Kifisochorion - Kato Tithorea |date=2019-09-19 |website=Institute for Neohellenic Research |access-date=2019-09-19}}</ref><ref name="Perseus">{{Cite web |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0006:entry=tithorea |title=TITHOREA (Velitsa) Phokis, Greece. |website=www.perseus.tufts.edu |publisher=The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites |access-date=2019-09-19 |year=1976}}</ref> Tithorea itself is, according to Pausanias, named after Tithorea, a tree nymph particularly associated with oaks.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/descriptiongree00pausgoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/descriptiongree00pausgoog/page/n181 172]|quote=nymph tithorea.|title=The Description of Greece |year=1824|last1=Pausanias |last2=Taylor |first2=Thomas |publisher=Thomas Davison |language=en |access-date=2019-09-19}}</ref>
==Transport== The town is served by the Tithorea railway station on the Piraeus–Platy railway, part of the main railway line connecting Athens and Thessaloniki, which opened in 1904. The station received a major refurbishment and upgrade in the 2016{{endash}}2017 period as part of the Tithorea-Leianokladi-Domokos high-speed rail bypass, a 20-year project which starts at Kato Tithorea and includes the longest railway tunnel in the Balkans.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.kathimerini.gr/942322/article/epikairothta/ellada/dokimastika-dromologia-ti8orea---lianokladi |title=Δοκιμαστικά δρομολόγια Τιθορέα - Λιανοκλάδι |date=2018-01-09 |website=www.kathimerini.gr |publisher=Kathimerini |language=el |trans-title=Trial Runs on the Tithorea - Lianokladi (line) |access-date=2019-09-19}}</ref> The new bypass, which starts at Kato Tithorea and ends at Domokos, replaced the older mountainous part of the Piraeus–Platy railway line with an electrified line capable of speeds of up to {{convert|200|km/h|mi/h}}.<ref name="ergose">{{Cite web |url=https://www.ergose.gr/project/tithorea_domokos/?lang=en |title=Tithorea – Domokos |publisher=Hellenic Railways Organisation |language=en-US |access-date=2019-09-19}}</ref>
Kato Tithorea is also transversed by the old Greek National Road 3, a single carriageway which served as the main road link between Athens and Thessaloniki until the construction of what is now the A1 motorway in 1962.
==Notable people == * Filopimin Finos, the founder of Finos Film, a film production company that dominated the Greek film industry from 1943 to 1977 * Ioannis Grivas, President of the Court of Cassation and caretaker Prime Minister in 1989
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