Kilkis
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Kilkis municipality Δήμος Κιλκίς (Κιλκίς) |
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| Region : | Central Macedonia | ||
| Regional District : | Kilkis | ||
| Geographic coordinates : | 40 ° 59 ′ N , 22 ° 52 ′ E | ||
| Area : | 1,581.21 km² | ||
| Residents : | 51,926 (2011) | ||
| Population density : | 32.8 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Post Code: | 61100 | ||
| Prefix: | (+30) 23410 | ||
| Seat: | Kilkis | ||
| LAU-1 code no .: | 0901 | ||
| Districts : | 7 municipal districts | ||
| Local self-government : |
1 city district 52 local communities |
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| Website: | www.e-kilkis.gr | ||
| Location in the Central Macedonia region | |||
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Kilkis ( Greek Κιλκίς [ Kilkis ] Bulgarian / Macedonian Кукуш Koukoush , Turkish Kilkis ) is a town and municipality ( Greek Δήμος Dimos ) in the Greek region of Central Macedonia . Since the Greek administrative reform in 2010 , with which the municipality was expanded to include six neighboring municipalities ( Cherso , Doirani , Gallikos , Kroussa , Mouries and Pikrolimni ), Kilkis is the fourth largest municipality in the country in terms of area. The western neighboring municipality Peonia and Kilkis are now the only two municipalities in the Kilkis regional district, which corresponds to the area of the former Kilkis prefecture .
The core city of Kilkis with (2011) around 51,990 inhabitants is located in a hilly landscape about 280 m above sea level.
history
In 1873 the city had around 5,500 inhabitants, in 1905 - around 10,000, with the Bulgarians making up the majority and having two elementary schools and a high school.
The city was badly damaged during the Second Balkan War in 1913. On June 21, the Greek army captured Kilkis after a three-day battle and drove out the Bulgarian population living there . When it was incorporated into the Greek state in 1913 , it had only 1,600 inhabitants, most of them from the neighboring villages.
Kilkis experienced a major growth spurt from the large number of refugees who settled there in the 1920s . These were predominantly Pontic Greeks ; others were from Asia Minor and Bulgaria. In 1928 it had about 6500 inhabitants.
In 1934 it was officially designated the economic and administrative center of the entire region; in the years before the Second World War it became more urban. In the Balkans campaign , Wehrmacht troops conquered Greece. Kilkis was part of the German occupation zone. In autumn 1944 the occupiers withdrew from Greece.
In 1997, the previous municipality (Dimos) Kilkis was merged with other localities as part of the Greek local government reform to form a new (expanded) municipality Kilkis. The municipal area grew from 87.45 km² to 319.834 km², the population from 19,358 (1991) to 24,874 (2001), whereby the city of Kilkis itself had the largest share of the increase (1981 11,148 inhabitants, 1991 12,139 inhabitants, 2001 19,247 inhabitants) .
economy
From 1974 to 2001 the German medium-sized company Stiebel Eltron produced solar systems (solar collectors) here. ALUMIL Milonas produces semi-finished aluminum products in Kilkis . The Kleemann Group , a major manufacturer of elevators and escalators , is also based in town .
Town twinning
Kilkis has twinned cities with the following cities:
- Asenovgrad , Bulgaria
sons and daughters of the town
- Krum Christow (1906–1988), Bulgarian journalist and diplomat
- Goze Deltschew (1872–1903), Bulgarian revolutionary
- Niki Eideneier (* 1940) (also: Eideneier-Anastassiadi) Νίκη Αΐντεναερ-Αναστασιάδη, German-Greek neo-Graecist, literary translator and publisher
- Giorgos Floridis (* 1956), Greek politician
- Wassilios Fthenakis (* 1937) Βασίλειος Εμμανουήλ Φθενάκης, Greek pedagogue, anthropologist, geneticist and psychologist
- Valentini Grammatikopoulou (* 1997), Greek tennis player
- Theocletus Karipides (1926–1975), Greek poet
- Kostas Lachas , Greek painter
- Panagiotis Moullas (1935-2010) Παναγιώτης Μουλλάς, Greek neo-Greekist
- Fotios Papadopulos (* 1954), Greek football player
- Christo Smirnenski (1898–1923), Bulgarian poet
- Aleksandar Stanishev (1886–1945), Bulgarian politician
- Savvas Tsitouridis (* 1954), Greek politician
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population figures according to the 2011 census ( memento of the original from November 13, 2011 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. (PDF) ELSTAT 2011
- ↑ kedke.gr (PDF; Greek)
- ↑ Йордан Илиев Йорданов (Ed.): Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г. (= Македонска библиотека. 33). Македонски научен институт, София 1995, ISBN 954-8187-21-3 , стр. 160-161.
- ↑ DM Brancoff: La Macédoine et sa population Chrétienne. Librairie Plon, Paris 1905, pp. 98-99.
- ↑ Κατάλογος των προσφυγικών συνοικισμών της Μακεδονίας σύμφωνα με τα της στοιχεία Επιτροπής Αποκαταστάσεως Προσφύγων (ΕΑΠ) έτος 1928 ( Memento of 15 November 2007 at the Internet Archive )
- ↑ assenovgrad.com Twinning of Asenovgrad (Bulgarian)
- ↑ see English Wikipedia
