Lefktra

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|name = Lefktra

|name_local = Λεύκτρα

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|periphunit = Boeotia

|municipality = Thebes

|municunit = Plataies

|population_as_of = 2021

|population = 779

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Lefktra ({{langx|el|Λεύκτρα|Léfktra}}, {{IPA|el|ˈlefk.tra|label=Modern Greek:}}) is a village in the regional unit of Boeotia, Greece, and a part of the municipality of Thebes. Before 1915, its name was Parapoungia ({{langx|el|Παραπούγγια}}).[https://www.eetaa.gr/eetaa/metaboles/oikmet_details.php?id=11203 EETAA local government changes], Lefktra{{cite web |last1=Λιθοξόου |first1=Δημήτρης |title=Μετονομασίες των χωριών της Ελλάδας |url=https://www.lithoksou.net/2020/11/metonomasies-horion_15.html |access-date=31 July 2021 |language=el}} Lefktra is located in the foothills of Mount Kithairon at 353 meters average elevation.{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |publisher=National Statistical Service of Greece |title=Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation) |language=el |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |archivedate=2015-09-21 }} The population of Lefktra is 779 people (2021 census). Thebes is sixteen kilometers away and Athens 70 km away, via the old national road. There are bus lines from Thebes to Lefktra and vice versa daily, and from Athens to Lefktra at the weekends. Residents' main occupations are agriculture and stockbreeding. Livadostra and Koromili beaches are ten minutes away by car.

Between 1912 and 1997 Lefktra was an independent community (an independent municipality after 1989). In 1997, at the Kapodistrias reform, it was merged into the municipality Plataies, along with the communities Melissochori, Loutoufi and Kaparelli. In 2010, at the Kallikratis reform, Plataies was merged into the municipality of Thebes.[https://www.eetaa.gr/eetaa/metaboles/dkmet_details.php?id=2382 EETAA local government changes], Plataies