Kallithea
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Municipality of Kallithea Δήμος Καλλιθέας (Καλλιθέα) |
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| Region : | Attica | ||
| Regional District : | Athens South | ||
| Geographic coordinates : | 37 ° 57 ' N , 23 ° 42' E | ||
| Area : | 4.749 km² | ||
| Residents : | 100,641 (2011) | ||
| Population density : | 21,192 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Post Code: | 17671-17676 | ||
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| Seat: | Kallithea | ||
| LAU-1 code no .: | 4801 | ||
| Districts : | no | ||
| Local self-government : |
3 boroughs |
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| Website: | www.kallithea.gr | ||
| Location in the Attica region | |||
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Kallithea ( Greek Καλλιθέα ( f. Sg. ), Good view ') is a city in the greater Athens area . With 100,641 inhabitants (according to the 2011 census), Kallithea is the tenth largest city in Greece and, after Athens, Piraeus , Peristeri and Acharnes, the fifth largest city in the metropolitan area of the capital. With 21,067 inhabitants per km², it is the most densely populated municipality in Greece.
location
Kallithea is located three kilometers south of Athens city center and extends over an area of 5 km² between Faliro Bay in the south and the Philopappos and Sikelia hills in the north. In the east, Syngrou-Allee forms the border to the towns of Nea Smyrni and Paleo Faliro , in the west of the Ilisos that to Tavros-Moschato .
history
The city is located in the area that was protected in ancient times by Athens' Long Walls . At that time there was a settlement here called Xypete, which is also mentioned in Plato's dialogues . Modern Kallithea owes its rise above all to the first Olympic Games in 1896 , after the plans for the construction of the city of Kallithea had already been decided in December 1884. In the center of the city, the Skopeftirion, a shooting range, was built, which, along with the Athens Olympic Stadium and the Velodrome Neo Faliro further south, today's Karaiskakis Stadium , was one of the three venues.
In 1910, the first tram depot was built in Kallithea, which is on the tram line from Athens to Faliro. The Charokopos University was added in 1925 and the Panteion University in 1928 . In the 1920s, numerous displaced persons from the Greco-Turkish wars settled here and initially used the area of the shooting range as living space before new settlements were built for them. In the 1930s, more Greek emigrants were added, who were resident on the eastern Black Sea coast and who fled to Greece from reprisals by the Soviet Union . The school building built on the shooting range served as a prison during the German occupation during the Second World War and was finally demolished in 1966. Greek resistance fighters and victims of occupation and civil war, such as Nikos Belogiannis , were imprisoned here.
In the 1990s there was another wave of immigration from Greeks from the (former) Soviet Union. In Tzitzifies, in the south of the city, there was a trotting track, which until 2004 was the only one in the whole country; it has since been moved to Markopoulo . Tzitzifies is also known as the center of Greek folklore music. Markos Vamvakaris, Vassilis Tsitsanis, Yannis Papaioannou, Marika Ninou, Sotiria Bellou, Manolis Chiotis , Mary Linda, Yorgos Zambetas, Stelios Kazantzidis, Marinella, Poly Panou and Viki Moscholiou performed here. In 2004 venues for the Olympic Games were built again in Kallithea .
Infrastructure
There are two universities in Kallithea, Harokopio and Panteion University, as well as numerous cultural organizations and sports clubs, such as Kallithea FC , which uses the Grigoris Lambrakis Stadium , or Esperos.
Kallithea is connected to the Athens metro network with the stations Kallithea and Tavros . There are also a number of tram, bus and trolley bus lines. The city can be reached by car via Syngrou-Allee, Poseidonos-Allee, Kifissos-Allee and Thisseos-Allee.
Attractions
In addition to Agia Eleousa , a church from late Byzantine times, the focus is on the Faliro Olympic complex on Kallithea Beach, which ranges from the Faliro sports pavilion to the Olympic beach volleyball center and the Ilisos estuary. The Kallithea Monument , a family grave from the 4th century BC, comes from Kallithea . BC, which is now exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus.
A monument in the center of the town on Davaki Square shows the origin of the local Black Sea Greeks.
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center started operations in 2016 . It houses the Greek National Library and the National Opera of Greece.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Results of the 2011 census at the Greek Statistical Office ELSTAT ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
