Nea Filadelfeia

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Nea Filadelfia (Greek Νέα Φιλαδέλφεια; ( f sg ); alternative transcription Nea Philadelphia ) is a Greek city in the north of the Greek capital Athens. Nea Filadelfia is as Athens itself in the plain of Attica ( Attiki Lekanopedio ) and is one of the northern suburbs of the metropolitan area of ​​Athens. Similar to the situation in the German Ruhr area can be identified on the basis of Nea Filadelfia and buildings between the neighboring cities and towns often no limit.

By 2010, Nea Filadelfia formed an independent municipality on 1 January 2011 it was merged with Nea Filadelfia Chalkidona for new community - Chalkidona, where it has since formed a district.

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

In 1920, Nea Filadelfia from a small farming village with 120 houses and several water mills on the river Kifisos. The structure of the present settlement was made in 1923: After the Greek defeat in the Greco- Turkish war, were refugees from Asia Minor, who had to leave their home under the provisions of the Treaty of Lausanne and the therein population exchange between Turkey and Greece, down here. These refugees had already arrived in Greece from 1922 to 1923 and in the greater Athens area and had first lived in refugee camps in the region Ambelokipi. The destruction of the accommodation by a fire in 1923 led to the settlement in the area of Nea Filadelfia. Within three years of Nea Filadelfia was built on the plan of a small English town. The rapid construction of the city was greatly hampered by the lack of first connection to the Greek electricity grid and the absence of regulated water and sewage supply, schools and roads. In 1931 was the first bus to Athens. 1932, the town was officially known as Nea Filadelfia ( "New Filadelfia " ) because most of the inhabitants were refugees of Filadelfia region in Asia Minor. Nea Filadelfia 1999 as other suburbs of Athens itself was rocked by a major earthquake.

Nea Filadelfia had 1981 25.320 1991 25.261 inhabitants and. Unlike many other cities and towns of the metropolitan area Piraeus Athens, the population has decreased from 1991 by 2001 ( 2001: 24,112 inhabitants).

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

Nea Filadelfia is connected by highway 1 to the Greek motorway and trunk road network; The motorway west of the city.