Alexandreia, Greece

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Alexandria (Greek Αλεξάνδρεια ) is a Greek community in the Regional District Imathia the Greek region of Central Macedonia. My office is located in the small town of Alexandria with (2011) 14,821 inhabitants.

Geography

The city of Alexandria is located in the lowlands zentralmakedonischen on alluvial deposits of the rivers Loudias and Aliakmona. The Loudias passes through the community area to the north. The Aliakmona is located in the south of the municipality. The distance from the coast of the Thermaikos Gulf is a straight line about 20 km. Thessaloniki, the second largest city of Greece, located in a north-easterly direction at about 52 km away, the prefectural capital Veria in west south-westerly direction to approximately 33 km. The city of Edessa is in the northwest of Alexandria in about 50 km distance, the city Giannitsa about 20 km to the north and the town of Naoussa in the east-northeast around 50 km away.

After Veria and Naoussa town Alexandria is the third largest city in the area Imathias and one of the larger cities in Northern Greece outside the metropolitan area of Thessaloniki.

History

The territory of the municipality of Alexandria was already inhabited in the Neolithic period. Remains of a Neolithic settlement have been discovered at Nea Nikomidia (Greek Νέα Νικομήδεια ). In the course of time the Bottiäer ( Βοττιαίοι ) settled in the area. 1150 BC fell Fryger ( Φρύγες ) in the area and conquered it. In millennium BC the Dorians and then the Macedonians reached the area and took possession of it. The area of present-day Alexandria was an integral part of the Kingdom of Macedonia. It lay between the former power centers Pella and Vergina; an appreciable or significant habitation existed in this area but obviously not. The Greek and Macedonian dominance ended with the defeat in Macedonian Macedonian -Roman war in 168 BC Subsequently, the region was part of the province of Macedonia of the Roman Empire.

The control of the Roman Empire lasted until the division to 395 AD. The area of Alexandria fell to the Eastern Roman Empire, the later Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines, who controlled until the 7th century secured. In the Byzantine period, the area of the municipality of Alexandria was known as Roumlouki (Greek Ρουμλούκι ). The name is taken to indicate a Greek-speaking settlement. The information on the present-day Alexandria region in the Byzantine period are still sparse.

From the 7th century, Byzantine control was repeatedly interrupted: first by the migration of the Slavs to the present mainland of Greece, and by the expansion of the Bulgarian Empire. Finally lost Alexandria went with the conquest of Constantinople Opel in 1204 under the Fourth Crusade. In the subsequent division of the Byzantine Empire Alexandria fell to the Kingdom of Thessalonica, which, however, proved short-lived. After the fall of the Kingdom of Thessalonica different fractions of the Byzantines and the Serbs controlled the region of present-day Alexandria.

The Ottomans conquered from 1370 successively today's Greek mainland, including the territory of modern Alexandria. Under the Ottoman rule, the villages of the Roumlouki, today's Alexandria, different Kazas and different dioceses belonged to. Middle of the 18th century, the large village grew Gida ( Γιδά ), the precursor of today's settlement city of Alexandria, significantly. The growth occurred despite Gidas its participation in the Greek Revolution in 1821.

Until the First Balkan War in 1912, the territory of the present municipality of Alexandria was ( at that time called Gida, Greek Γιδά ) part of the Ottoman province of Macedonia. In the last decade of the 19th century, the port of Gida on the railway network of the Ottoman Empire was made: the railway line Bitola - Edessa -Thessaloniki happened Gida, which received a railway station. The rise of Greek troops in October 1912, Thessaloniki also brought the territory of the settlement Gida on October 18, 1912 Greek control. With the Treaty of Bucharest in 1913 Gida finally fell to the Kingdom of Greece.

1918 the settlement Gida to rural community ( Kinotita ) was charged. It included next to the village Gida The villages Lianoveri, Paleochori and Platy Imathias, in the latter case, the population was recruited solely from the staff at the local train station. In the 1920 census, the village Gida 844 inhabitants, Lianoveri 373, 260 Paleochori, Platy Imathias 61, Station 22 and Gida Schinia had 279 inhabitants. Due to the influx of refugees from Asia Minor after the Greek defeat in the Greco- Turkish War in 1922, the settlement Platy Imathias was founded in its present form and subsequently cleaved from the community Gida. In April 1941 Gida was conquered by the troops of the Wehrmacht under the company Marita. Three months after the German conquest of the community Gida was released on 10 July 1941, the province of Thessaloniki out and assigned to the province Imathia. The German occupation lasted until October 1944.

On 9 February 1948, the municipality Gida was recognized as a municipality ( Dimos ) ( similar to the granting of town rights in Germany ). On January 6, 1953, the city of Alexandria was given its present name after the Macedonian king Alexander the Great. In 1997, the existing township Alexandria ( Alexandria Dimos ) was extended in the Greek local government reform: the neighboring towns Vrysaki, Kambochori, Neohori and Nisi (or Niselio ) the municipality Alexandria have been assigned. According to the census in 2001 the population of the municipality of Alexandria was 19,283 inhabitants. With the administrative reform of 2010 Alexandria was again extended to the neighboring communities Andigonides, Meliki and Platy and grew as a number of more than 42,000 inhabitants. The predecessor municipalities have since been managed as municipal districts ( Ez gr Dimotiki enotita ), the former municipal districts as towns ( Ez gr Dimotiki kinotita, urban community 'or topiki kinotita, local community ').

Traffic

The community of Alexandria has a direct connection to two transport systems: road and rail. Through the municipal area extends from east-northeast to west southwest National Road 4, which reaches from Nea Chalkidona (close to National Road 2 towards Thessaloniki ) Coming to the prefecture capital Veria and on over the Kastanies Pass and the resort Polymylos the neighboring prefecture of Kozani with its capital. Since the beginning of the 21st century this until then the main road link through the highway 2 (Europe Road 90) was replaced, which passes through the municipality in the south in the same direction as the National Road 4. The Highway 2 connects to the East Alexandria with Thessaloniki and Katerini, to the west with Veria and Kozani. There is a motorway junction on Highway 2 (Exit Alexandria / Niselio ). To the north there are minor road links to the city Giannitsa and Edessa as well as other towns. To the south are also made minor road links, for example, Vergina and Eginio. About the roads and the public local and long distance traffic is carried by buses of KTEL to Veria and Thessaloniki.

Second main modes of Alexandria is the railway. The railway line Florina Amyndeo - Edessa - Veria - Alexandria - Platy Imathias -Thessaloniki passing through the community and the city of Alexandria. In the city of Alexandria is an eponymous train station. The driving time from Alexandria to Thessaloniki by train is 30 minutes

An inland waterway connection to Alexandria is not possible. Neither the municipality nor the passing flow Loudias greater flow Aliakmona are navigable.

The lying within the municipality airport is used solely as a military airbase.

Personalities

  • Vasileios Tsiartas - Greek football player
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