Polichni

Polichni municipality
Δημοτική Ενότητα Πολίχνης
(Πολίχνη)

Basic data

State :

Greece

Region :

Geographic coordinates :

40 ° 39 ′ N , 22 ° 58 ′ E Coordinates: 40 ° 39 ′ N , 22 ° 58 ′ E

Height above d. M .:

90 m
(average)

Area :

7.325 km²

Residents :

39,332 (2011)

Population density :

5,369.6 inhabitants / km²

Code No .:

071103

Structure:

1 municipality

Website:

www.polichni.gr

Located in Pavlos Melas Municipality and Thessaloniki Regional Unit

Polichni ( Greek Πολίχνη [ pɔˈlixni ] ( f. Sg. )) Is de facto a district of Thessaloniki , but de jure forms a municipality of the municipality of Pavlos Melas in the Central Macedonia region , Greece . Polichni means 'small town'.

Geography and traffic

Polichni is located in the north of the city of Thessaloniki. In the north, Polichni borders on the municipality of Efkarpia , in the west on Stavroupoli , in the south on the municipality of Neapoli-Sykies . The northern part of the municipality up to the inner ring of Thessaloniki is occupied by the former Karatasiou barracks . The northern tip of the area is home to two stadiums (Karatasiou and Makedonikou). The inner ring of Thessaloniki goes around Polichni in a swivel to the southeast.

history

Until 1913 the area was called Karaisin (Καράισιν) and was inhabited by Wallachians . In 1912 families from Kars and Tbilisi first settled in the area of today's city of Polichni. In 1917, after the great fire in Thessaloniki, which destroyed a large part of the city center, the Karaisin settlement was redesigned and built. Builders and planners were parts of the Jewish population of Thessaloniki who had become homeless as a result of the great fire. In 1922 around a thousand refugees from Asia Minor , the Caucasus and the southern Black Sea coast arrived after the Greek defeat in the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1923). In 1929 the Karaisin settlement area was renamed Polichni, and in 1930 the Church of St. Pandeleimonas was built as the religious center of the settlement area. Polichni became an independent rural community (kinotita) in 1935 . In 1947 the population of Polichnis increased due to migration within Greece as a result of the Greek civil war . In 1972 Polichni was given the designation Stadtgemeinde (dimos), roughly comparable to the granting of city rights in Germany . With the administrative reform in 2010 , Polichnic was combined with the neighboring communities of Efkarpia and Stavroupoli to form the new community of Pavlos Melas, where it has been a district since then.

70 percent of the area of 7.325 km² Polichnis is urban. In the last census in 2011, 39,332 people lived in this area.

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)

[1] 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)