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Extract from the Krinthos Travel Guides:
Like its ancient predecessor, the city of
KRINTHOS
(modern Corinth) has been levelled on several occasions by earthquakes - most recently in 1981, when a serious quake left thousands in tented homes for most of the following year. Repaired and reconstructed, with buildings of prudent but characterless concrete, the modern city has little of interest to the outsider; it is largely an industrial and agricultural centre, its economy bolstered by the drying and shipping of currants, for centuries one of Greece's few successful exports (the word "currant" itself derives from Corinth). Perhaps unexpectedly, Krinthos is the hottest...
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