Thebarton, South Australia

Thebarton is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The suburb is adjacent to the River Torrens in the north, to the Port Road and Bonython Park to the east, Kintore Street to the south and to the west by the South Road. At the last census in 2006 lived in the suburb of 1,327 inhabitants.

Thebarton was named after the Theberton Hall in Suffolk, in the British Colonel William Light completed his training, the first surveyor -general of the British colony of South Australia. The area of ​​today's Thebarton was called to about 1840 Theberton. Before the first European settlement Thebarton and Hindmarsh was an area of the Aborigines of the Kurnai, who called it Karraundongga, which means "place of spears on the river red gum " because riverside trees grew, were suitable particularly for the manufacture of spears. Colonel Light surveyed the city and built the Theberton Cottage in the north of this area. The area of Thebarton was split in February 1839 to build houses on. The construction of the houses lasted long and was therefore in 1866 the population of Thebarton about 450 people.

In the adjacent suburb of Torrensville Adelaide there are buildings that bear the name of Thebarton, as Thebarton Oval, the Thebarton croquet and bowls club, the Thebarton Theatre and the Thebartonschulungsstätte for managers.

The suburb of Thebarton houses within its walls a large Greek- Australian population and has the largest Greek- Australian population per capita in Australia. 2001 4.471 Greek - Australians were counted from the Australian Bureau of Statistics in Thebarton and neighboring Torrensville, which were 18.7 percent of the total population.

In Thebarton is St. George Greek Orthodox Church, the largest Greek Orthodox church in Adelaide, the ice rink (also called Snowdome Adelaide ), in which the team plays the Adelaide Adrenaline in the Australian Ice Hockey Ice Hockey League. One of the four campuses of the University of Adelaide is located there and the Adelaide Gaol.

Thebarton is located in the local government area of the City of West Torrens ( LGA) and in the constituency of the South Australian House of Assembly for the Australian House of Representatives in the Division of Adelaide.