The Mesogeia or Mesogaia ( Greek : τα Μεσόγεια, η Μεσόγαια/Μεσογαία , "Midlands") is a geographical region of Attica in Greece .
3-574: The term designates since antiquity the inland portion of the Attic peninsula. The term acquired a technical meaning with the reforms of Cleisthenes in c. 508 BC , when each of the ten Attic tribes was in territory composed of three zones ( trittyes ), urban ( asty , the main city of Athens), interior ( mesogeia ) and coastal ( paralia ). In the Classical period , the mesogeia comprised about 47 settlements ( demoi ). In modern usage,
6-439: The late Middle Ages , the area was the site of Albanian ( Arvanite ) settlement, as can be seen from toponyms such as Spata or Liopesi . Before the 2011 Kallikratis reform , the area comprised the municipalities of Gerakas , Glyka Nera , Anthousa , Pallini , Paiania , Pikermi , Spata, Artemida , Rafina, Markopoulo Mesogaias , Keratea , Koropi , Kalyvia Thorikou , Vari , Kouvaras , and Voula . Its main settlement
9-642: The term refers to the central portion of East Attica , separated from the Athens basin by Mount Hymettus , and delineated to the north by Mount Penteli and to the south by the mountains of south Attica (Merenta, Panio [ el ] , Laureotic Olympus ). To the east the Mesogeia reaches the Aegean Sea at the Petalioi Gulf , but is separated from the actual coastline by a line of low hills. In
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