Modern Elefsis

The 1950s saw a population explosion, a decisive factor in which was the situation that had been created in the countryside by the civil war and the poverty that plagued many areas. People from Epirus, Chios, the Dodecanese, and Corfu settled in Elefsina. The presence of Cretans dates back to around the early 1960s. In the mid-1960s, Pontians began to settle there, particularly from the countries of the then Soviet Union.