Nikaia, Attica
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Nikea ( Greek: Νίκαια ( f sg ), ancient Greek Nikaia, after its former name known as Kokkinia Κοκκινιά Greek ) is a Greek city in Attica in the Regional District of Piraeus.
Still under the name Nea Kokkinia ( Νέα Κοκκινιά ) was the place in 1934 spun off from Piraeus and is recognized for as municipality ( dimos ), it was renamed 1940. Since the merger with the neighboring village of Agios Ioannis Rendis January 1, 2011 Nikea forms a district of the municipality of Nikea - Agios Ioannis Rendis, which also houses the administrative seat of the municipality.
Geography
Nikea is located 4 kilometers north of Piraeus between Keratsini and Korydallos at the foot of the mountain Egaleo.
It is a western suburb of Athens and Piraeus, with which it is grown together settlement default.
History
Until the 20th century into the hilly area was essentially agricultural. After the Asia Minor catastrophe in 1922 then located at the foot of Egaleo Mountains area for the air flowing into the Greater Athens refugees was developed as a suburb of Athens and built. Nikea was the second largest refugee city in Greece.
Until 1940 it was known as Kokkinia, allegedly because he was a center of Communists ( kokkinos = red after the Greek word). However, the term actually should go back to the front of the existing building strewn with poppy fields.
The raid on 17 August 1944
On Thursday, August 17, 1944 happened in Nikea a war crime of the German occupation forces, commonly known in Greece as still today " Blocco ( raid ) of Kokkinia " (Greek Μπλόκο της Κοκκινιάς ). All the men in an area which was cordoned off by thousands of German soldiers, supported by Greek collaborators had to kneel down on the square Osias Xenis; more than 100 men who had been displayed by informers were placed on the wall of a small factory and shot immediately.
7,000 people were arrested and taken to the concentration camp Chaidari, 1200 deported them after a few days in freight trains to Germany, where they were used as forced laborers. A part of them was brought to Biblis, in order to build a military airfield.
Cityscape
In the southwest Nikeas an industrial area was established; an area that has been used previously for the mining industry, was transformed in the 1960s into a park. Here the Olympic Hall, the venue for the 2004 competitions in weightlifting at the Olympic Games was created.
The city is dominated by two major boulevards, the Grigori - Lambraki Street and Petrou Ralli Street.
At the sights Klimakia Museum, the Plato - sports center and the Proodeftiki Stadium are mentioned. Nikea has two hospitals and a number of primary and secondary schools. It is the football team of the second division Ionikos Nikea home of the volleyball team Nikaia Piraeus.