Drama (city)
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Municipality of Drama Δήμος Δράμας (Δράμα) |
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| Region : | East Macedonia and Thrace | ||
| Regional District : | drama | ||
| Geographic coordinates : | 41 ° 9 ′ N , 24 ° 8 ′ E | ||
| Area : | 833.01 km² | ||
| Residents : | 58,944 (2011) | ||
| Population density : | 70.8 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Post Code: | 66100 | ||
| Prefix: | (+30) 25210 | ||
| Seat: | drama | ||
| LAU-1 code no .: | 0201 | ||
| Districts : | 2 parishes | ||
| Local self-government : |
4 city districts 11 local communities |
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| Website: | www.ota.gr/drama/ | ||
| Location in the region of East Macedonia and Thrace | |||
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Drama ( Greek Δράμα [ ˈðrama ] ( f. Sg. )) Is a city in northern Greece . It is the capital of the Drama regional district in the Eastern Macedonia and Thrace administrative region .
origin of the name
There are different views on the etymology of the toponym drama. Drama has often been identified with the city of Drabēskos ( ancient Greek Δράβησκος ) mentioned by Thucydides , which was derived from Doric draō ( δράω ) 'see' and would mean, for example, 'place with a view'. Another theory derives the name from dy-rema , to dyō ( δύω ) 'two' and rheō ( ῥέω ) 'flow', which could mean a city divided in half by a river. Mostly an origin from ancient Greek ὕδωρ hydōr or ὑδρ- hydr- 'water' is assumed, which would generally indicate a water-rich area.
history
Already in prehistoric times there seems to have been an inhabited Arcadian settlement in Drama . In the early or late classical Hellenistic period (late fourth or early third century BC), settlements were built on the site of today's drama, the inhabitants of which cultivated the vines and worshiped the god Dionysus in their own shrine. The settlements persisted during the Roman and Byzantine periods . The grave stele of Tiberius Claudius Maximus was found in the village of Grammeni and can be viewed in the city's archaeological museum (see below).
After the Battle of the Mariza in 1371, Drama came under Ottoman rule. The Ottoman Empire was a multi-ethnic state , which also reflected the composition of the city's population. In 1530 there were 143 Christian and 96 Muslim households. In 1900, according to Vasil Kanchov, the city had about 9040 inhabitants, of which 6300 were Turks , 1500 Greeks , 350 Bulgarians , 300 Aromanians , 240 Gypsies , 150 Jews , 50 Circassians and 150 others. In 1905, according to Dimitar Mishev, the then secretary of the Bulgarian Exarchate, the Christian population of Drama consisted of 320 Bulgarians, 80 United Bulgarians , 32 Protestant Bulgarians, 700 Greeks and 1,500 Wallachians . At that time there was a primary school and two Greek secondary schools in the city with six teachers and 250 students.
During the First Balkan War , the city was liberated by units of the Bulgarian army in 1912. Thrace fell to Bulgaria for a short time. In the subsequent Second Balkan War, Thrace fell to Greece. In a train accident on May 11, 1913, 25 cars from a train ran away near Drama and collided with other cars. 150 people died. According to Greek statistics, 12,903 people lived in Drama in 1913.
The deportation of the Jews
After the Balkan campaign (1941) , Drama and all of Greece were occupied by the Axis powers . The regional occupying power was the Kingdom of Bulgaria .
On March 4, 1943, the deportation of Jews began throughout Thrace and also in Drama . The Bulgarian soldiers deported a total of around 4,000 Jews from Thrace and 589 from the city of Drama to Bulgaria and pounded them there in empty tobacco warehouses. They were then taken to the Treblinka extermination camp on the Reichsbahn . None survived the genocide .
Culture and sights
The short film festival Drama Short Film Festival took place for the first time in 1978 and has been repeated annually since the mid-1980s.
- Archaeological Museum
- The Byzantine Church of St. Sofia
- The stalactite caves of the Angitis (Maras) river
- Park (Piges Agias Varvaras) in the center with restaurants and water features
- The Milopotamos Aquarium
- Milopotamos Park
- The park of Drama (fountain)
Iron Age helmet in the Archaeological Museum
The Byzantine Church of St. Sofia
The Church of St. Nikolaos
National costumes in the Macedonian Museum
Climate table
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Monthly average temperatures and rainfall for Drama 2009-2017
Source: http://meteosearch.meteo.gr/
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economy
In the past, the economic development of drama depended on the paper and textile industries. These factories have now either closed or relocated to the neighboring low-wage country of Bulgaria, which has had a negative impact on the local economy and employment rate. In particular from 2007, after Bulgaria became a member of the EU, Greek companies were able to easily emigrate to the inexpensive neighboring country. Other sources of livelihood are agriculture (especially tobacco plantations), mining (especially marble ) and forestry . Recently, attempts have been made to promote the development of ecotourism .
There is a ski area on Mount Falakro near Drama .
traffic
Drama train station is on the Thessaloniki – Alexandroupoli railway line, which opened in 1896 .
sons and daughters of the town
- Mahmud Dramali Pasha (1780–1822), Ottoman general
- Ibrahim Pascha (1789–1848), son of Muhammad Ali Pascha , Ottoman general, viceroy of Egypt in 1848
- Basilis C. Xanthopoulos (1951–1990), theoretical physicist
- Koulis Stoligkas (1910–1984), actor
- Efstratios Perperoglou (* 1984), basketball player
- Ioannis Alexiou (* 1984), football player
- Ioannis Fetfatzidis (* 1990), football player
- Dimitris Siovas (* 1988), football player
- Nikos Sergianopoulos (1952–2008), actor
- Tania Tsanaklidou (* 1952), singer and actress
- Maria Mitkou (* 1994), soccer player
- Matthias Braunmar (* 1960), writer
gallery
The old and the new cathedral
St. Barbara Church
Mosque in the old town
Statue of the militant Pavlos Melas
Lavender field in drama
Twin town
Web links
- Drama Infoportal Godrama (Greek)
- Drama at q-test.de
- Grecian.net (English)
- Drama, Greek Macedonia (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Results of the 2011 census at the National Statistical Service of Greece (ΕΛ.ΣΤΑΤ) ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Excel document, 2.6 MB)
- ↑ Dimitra Vasli: I Drama ke i istoria tis. o. O. 2002, p. 4 ( PDF online; 1.5 MB).
- ↑ Vasil Kanchov: Macedonia. Ethnography and Statistics. Sofia, 1900, st. 197
- ↑ DM Brancoff: Macedonia and its Christian population . Plon, Paris, 1905, pp. 204-205 (pdf, 91 kB).
- ↑ Δημήτρης Λιθοξόου: Απαρίθμηση των κατοίκων των νέων επαρχιών της Ελλάδος του έτους 1913 - Μακεδονία. Archived from the original on January 15, 2008 ; Retrieved April 18, 2017 .
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↑ יהודי בולגריה - כפשע בינם לבין המוות. (pdf, 153 kB) Yad Vashem Memorial , accessed on April 18, 2017 (Hebrew, “Bulgaria's Jews - avoiding the death”). Michael Bar-Zohar: The trains went out empty . Hed-Artzi, Or-Yhuda, Israel, 1999 (Hebrew).
- ↑ Website of the festival ( Memento des Originals from February 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
