Corinth is a city in Greece. It gave its name to the Corinth Canal. This is in the middle of the Isthmus of Corinth, a narrow strip of land which joins the Peloponnese peninsula with mainland Greece. It has a castle called the acrocorinth. Corinth is in the north of Peloponnese. It is a coastal city. It had 60,000 people at the 2011 census.
Corinth
History
On February 21, 1858, the old Corinth was destroyed by an earthquake, after which the new city was founded six kilometers to the northeast in the same year. After the planning had been completed, temporary barracks were first erected to house the authorities. In the following years, almost 400 houses were built, into which many inhabitants of Old Corinth moved after initial hesitation.
In 2010, the neighbouring municipalities of Assos-Lecheo, Saronikos, Solygia and Tenea were incorporated into Corinth; the area of the municipality was thus increased sixfold and the number of inhabitants almost doubled.
Infrastructure
While the importance of the Corinth Canal for shipping is now almost exclusively limited to tourism, its importance for land transport has increased. In the mid-1990s the motorway to the Peloponnese was expanded, since then there is also the motorway junction Corinth-West with the fork to Patras (A8) and Sparta/Tripolis A7.
Corinth was connected to the railway in 1885 with the metre-gauge railway line Piraeus-Patras. In 1886 the first section of the railway line Corinth-Kalamata went into operation. These narrow-gauge railways have since been closed down. Towards Athens, rail traffic was transferred to a standard-gauge new line running along the highway. This was extended westwards to Kiato in 2010 and is currently used by the Athens commuter railway. Construction is underway on an extension of the line to Patras. When that is completed, long-distance traffic is also to take place here.
