Tanagra

Tanagra Τανάγρα
Tanagra
Location within the region
Coordinates: 38°19′N 23°32′E / 38.317°N 23.533°E / 38.317; 23.533Coordinates: 38°19′N 23°32′E / 38.317°N 23.533°E / 38.317; 23.533
Country	Greece
Administrative region	Central Greece
Regional unit	Boeotia
Area
• Municipality	461.02 km2 (178.00 sq mi)
• Municipal unit	122.53 km2 (47.31 sq mi)
Elevation	214 m (702 ft)
Population (2011)
• Municipality	19,432
• Municipality density	42/km2 (110/sq mi)
• Municipal unit	3,827
• Municipal unit density	31/km2 (81/sq mi)
Community
• Population	1,117 (2011)
• Area (km2)	27.814
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Postal code	322 00, 320 09
Area code(s)	22620
Vehicle registration	ΒΙ

Tanagra (Greek: Τανάγρα) is a town and a municipality north of Athens in Boeotia, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Schimatari. It is not far from Thebes, and it was noted in antiquity for the figurines named after it. The Tanagra figurines were a mass-produced, mold-cast and fired type of Greek terracotta figurines produced from the later fourth century BCE, primarily in Tanagra.

The municipality Tanagra was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 4 former municipalities, that became municipal units:

Pausanias mentions in Tanagra's location the ancient city of Graea, eponymous of the Graikoi, a Boeotian tribe whose name gave rise to the Latin Graecus "Greek". Homer, while reciting the Boeotian forces in the Iliad 's Catalogue of Ships, provides the first known reference to the Boeotian city of Graea.

Tanagra's alternative name was Poimandria, after its founder Poimandros, who took part in the Trojan campaign. It was the site of two Battles of Tanagra, in 457 BC and 426 BC. The Boeotian League under Tanagra led forth "the Boeotians" against the Athenian invaders at Oenophyta, 62 days after the battle of Tanagra (See Battle of Oenophyta)

In the early 2000s, a military plane which was on a training flight crashed on the runway during bad weather. There were no survivors.