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Polichni (Greek Πολίχνη ( f sg ) ) is a de facto district of Thessaloniki, but is de jure a district of the municipality Pavlos Melas in the region of Central Macedonia, Greece. Polichni means small town '.

Geography and transport

Polichni is located in the north of the city of Thessaloniki. To the north is bordered Polichni to the district Efkarpia, on the west by Stavroupoli, to the south by the municipality of Neapolis - Sykies. The northern part of the municipality to the inner ring of Thessaloniki occupied by the former barracks Karatasiou. The northern tip of the site is home to two stages ( Karatasiou and Makedonikou ). The inner ring of Thessaloniki bypasses Polichni in a turn to the southeast.

History

Until 1913 the area was called Karaisin ( Καράισιν ) and was inhabited by Vlachs. 1912 families settled in Kars and Tbilisi for the first time to the area of the present town Polichni. In 1917 the settlement was Karaisin after the great fire of Thessaloniki, which destroyed much of the city center, planned and built. Builders and planners were part of the Jewish population of Thessaloniki, which had been left homeless by the fire. 1922 met around a thousand refugees from Asia Minor, the Caucasus and the southern Black Sea coast a after the Greek defeat in the Greco- Turkish War ( 1919-1923 ). In 1929, the settlement area Karaisin was renamed Polichni, built in 1930 the church of St. Pandeleimonas as the religious center of the settlement area. Polichni 1935 for independent rural community ( kinotita ). 1947, the population Polichnis rose through the Greek domestic migration due to the Greek Civil War. 1972 Polichni was designated municipality ( dimos ), roughly comparable to the granting of town rights in Germany. With the administrative reform in 2010 Polichnic was united with the neighboring communities Efkarpia and Stavroupoli for Pavlos Melas new community, where it has since formed a district.

Seventy percent of the floor area of ​​7.325 km ² Polichnis are built urban. In this area lived 2011 39.332 people at the last census.

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