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Country
  
Local time
  
Thursday 11:02 PM

Administrative region
  
Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Municipality
  
Pylaia-Chortiatis

Regional unit
  
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18°C, Wind SE at 13 km/h, 40% Humidity

Pylaia (Greek: Πυλαία) is a municipality of the Thessaloniki Urban Area and a former municipality in the regional unit of Thessaloniki, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pylaia-Chortiatis, of which it is a municipal unit. Pylaia covers 24.379 km2 with 4,5 km of coastline extending along the shores of the Thermaic Gulf and had a population of 34,625 inhabitants at the 2011 census. Pylaia is relatively sparsely populated for a municipality within the Thessaloniki Urban Area.

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Map of Pylaia, Greece

History

The first reference to Pylaia is found in the historian Thucydides, in 319 BC, under the name Strepsa. It was later known as Kapoutzida, from the Turkish word kapıcı ("gatekeeper"), deriving from the guards watching over the city walls of Byzantine Thessaloniki. The current name came into general use in 1927, and is derived from the word Pyle (πυλη), meaning gateway and referring to the Eastern Entrance of the city.

Notable residents

  • Paschalis Terzis, singer
  • Communities

  • Eleones
  • References

    Pylaia Wikipedia


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