Nea Filadelfia

Municipality of Nea Filadelfia
Δημοτική Ενότητα Νέας Φιλαδέλφειας
(Νέα Φιλαδέλφεια)

Basic data

State :

Greece

Region :

Attica

Nea Filadelfia-Nea Chalkidona

Geographic coordinates :

38 ° 2 ′ N , 23 ° 44 ′ E Coordinates: 38 ° 2 ′ N , 23 ° 44 ′ E

Height above d. M .:

110 m
town center

Area :

2.85 km²

Residents :

25,734 (2011)

Population density :

9,029.5 inhabitants / km²

Code No .:

450801

Structure:

1 municipality

Located in the municipality of Nea Filadelfia-Nea Chalkidona and in the Athens-Center regional unit

Nea Filadelfia ( Greek Νέα Φιλαδέλφεια ( f. Sg. ); Alternative transcription Nea Philadelphia ) is a northern suburb of the Greek capital Athens . Like Athens itself, Nea Filadelfia is located in the plain of Attica (Lekanopedio Attikis); analogous to the situation in the German Ruhr area , often no border can be identified between Nea Filadelfia and the neighboring cities and communities based on the development.

Until 2010 Nea Filadelfia formed an independent municipality, on January 1, 2011 it was merged with Nea Chalkidona to form the new municipality Nea Filadelfia-Nea Chalkidona , where it has since formed a municipality.

The center of the Greek capital Athens is located south of Nea Filadelfia.

In 1920 Nea Filadelfia consisted of a small farming village with 120 houses and several watermills on the Kifissos River. The construction of today's settlement began in 1923: After the Greek defeat in the Greco-Turkish War , refugees from Asia Minor , who had to leave their homeland according to the provisions of the Treaty of Lausanne and the population exchange between Turkey and Greece envisaged therein, settled here. These refugees had already reached Greece and the greater Athens area between 1922 and 1923 and initially lived in refugee shelters in the Ambelokipi region. The destruction of the accommodation by a fire in 1923 led to the settlement in the area of Nea Filadelfia. Within three years, Nea Filadelfia was built on the layout of a small English town. The rapid development of the city was significantly hampered by the initially lacking connection to the Greek power grid and the lack of a regulated water and sewage supply as well as schools and roads. The first bus connection to Athens did not take place until 1931. In 1932 the city was officially referred to as Nea Filadelfia ("New Filadelfia") because most of the residents were refugees in the Filadelfia region in Asia Minor. In 1999, Nea Filadelfia, like other suburbs of and Athens itself, was hit by a major earthquake.

Nea Filadelfia had 25,320 inhabitants in 1981 and 25,261 in 1991. In contrast to many other cities and municipalities in the Athens-Piraeus metropolitan area, the population decreased from 1991 to 2001 (2001: 24,112 inhabitants).

Until 1927 the area of today's Nea Filadelfia was known as Podoniftis ; the name was borrowed from the stream of the same name, which flows from north to south in the direction of the Saronic Gulf through the plain of Attica.

Nea Filadelfia is connected to the Greek motorway and trunk road network by the Greek motorway 1 running to the west .

literature

Attica, Egina & Salamina. 1: 60,000. Road Editions, Athens 2004. ISBN 960-8481-88-0 .

Web links

Commons : Nea Filadelfia - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Information from the Greek Statistical Office based on the 2001 census ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Results of the 2011 census, Greek Statistical Office (ΕΛ.ΣΤΑΤ) ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Excel document, 2.6 MB)

[1] Information from the Greek Statistical Office based on the 2001 census ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

[VZ2011-2] Results of the 2011 census, Greek Statistical Office (ΕΛ.ΣΤΑΤ) ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Excel document, 2.6 MB)