Photo 1: Kallithea on the simulated view of Greater Athens from above. Click box right to enlarge

Photo 2: Astronaut photo showing the city of Kallithea (bordered with white dotted line), its location next to the Athens centre (to the right) and the Phaleron bay (to the left), as well as the local layout of the metropolitan railway (cyan line) and its stations (yellow circles). Click box right to enlarge

Photo 3: The 5th century BC fortification of Athens (red lines) superimposed on a recent astronaut photo. Also shown the river beds in ancient times (cyan lines), the new river bed (dotted cyan line), the ancient roads coinciding with existing ones (yellow dotted lines) and the Phaleron coastline at ancient times (blue line). Click box right to enlarge

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Location

Kallithea (Greek: Καλλιθέα map) is the 8th biggest municipality in Greece (110,187 inhabitants, 2001 census) and the 4th biggest in Greater Athens (following Athens itself, Piraeus and Peristeri). The centre of Kallithea (Davaki Square) lies at a distance of 3 km to the south of the Athens city centre (Syntagma Square) and 3 km to the north-east of the Piraeus city centre (Korai Square) (photo 1). Kallithea extends from Filopappou and Sikelia hills in the north to the Phaleron Bay in the south. Its two other sides consist of Syngrou Avenue to the east (border to the towns of Nea Smyrni and Palaio Faliro) and Ilisos river to the west (border to the towns of Tavros and Moschato) (photo 2). The Acropolis in central Athens, one of the most important landmarks in world history. ... View of Piraeus A night ferry about to leave the port of Piraeus for the Dodecanese Piraeus, or Peiraeus (Modern Greek: Πειραιάς Peiraiás or Pireás, Ancient Greek / Katharevousa: Πειραιεύς Pireéfs) is a city in the prefecture of Attica, Greece, located south of Athens. ... Peristeri, older forms Peristerio and Peristerion is a suburban community in Athens area (Attica), Greece. ... Faliron Bay, (Phaleron Bay) is a bay almost 8 km directly SW of Athens overlooking Andreas Syngrou Avenue. ... Nea Smyrni or Nea Smirni (Greek: Νέα Σμύρνη, literally New Smyrna) is a suburb in the southwestern part of Athens, Greece. ... Faliro or Faliron/Phaliron (Greek: Φάληρο Pháliro, Latin: Phaleron, Phalerum) is a community 8 km SW of downtown Athens. ... There is also a Tavros in Cyprus near Famagusta, see Tavros, Cyprus Tavros (Greek: Ταύρος), is a suburb in the southwestern part of Athens, Greece. ... Moschato, Moshato or Moskhato (Greek, Modern: Μοσχάτο, Ancient/Katharevousa: -on meaning Old Faliro), older forms Moschaton, Moshaton and Moskhaton is a suburb in the south southern part of Athens, Greece. ...

The site on which the city was developed covers the biggest part of the area to the south of Athens, protected in the ancient times (5th century BC) by the Long Walls to the west and the Phaleron Wall to the east (photo 3). Somewhere within this area the ancient town of Xypete existed. This town and its citizens are mentioned amongst elsewhere in Plato's Dialogues. Statue of a philosopher, presumably Plato, in Delphi. ...

The 1896 and 2004 Athens Olympics

The plans for the establishment of the new city of Kallithea were officially approved in December 1884. On the longitudinal axis of the town (Thisseos Avenue) the Athens to Phaleron tramway used to run from the beginning (1850) to the end (1955) of its operations. Near the centre of the town the Shooting Range (Skopeftirion) was built to house events of the first modern Olympic Games (1896 Summer Olympics). These games took place in three venues: the refurbished ancient stadium of Athens (Panathinaiko Stadium) 2 km NE of Kallithea, the Faliron Velodrome (currently Karaiskaki Stadium) 2 km SW of Kallithea and the Kallithea Shooting Range (Skopeftirion). The 1896 Summer Olympics, formally called the Games of the I Olympiad, were the first modern Summer Olympic Games and the first Games since Roman emperor Theodosius I banned the Ancient Olympic Games in AD 393 as part of the Christian campaign against paganism. ... Panathinaiko Stadium (also known as the Kallimarmaro) in Athens is the only major stadium in the world thats constructed fully of white marble from mount Penteli. ... The Karaiskaki Stadium is located near Piraeus in the Faliro area of Athens, Greece. ...

Events of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games also took place in the district of Kallithea, notably Handball and Taek Won Do in the new Sports Pavilion (Faliro) by the bottom of Syngrou Avenue and Beach Volleyball in the Olympic Beach Volleyball Centre on Kallithea beach (Tzitzifies). The Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, commonly known as the 2004 Summer Olympics were the 28th Summer Olympic Games. ... The Sports Pavilion is an indoor arena in Faliro, near Piraeus, Greece. ... The Olympic Beach Volleyball Centre is a stadium in Faliro that hosted the beach volleyball competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. ...

The Growth of the City

Between the first (1896) and the recent (2004) modern Olympic Games in Athens the city of Kallithea grew significantly. First the tramway depot and workshop were built there (1910) followed by the Harokopios Graduate School (1925) and the Panteios Graduate Scholl of Political Sciences (1928).

In the 1920s the town was flooded by the thousands of refugees after the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922), the Asia Minor Catastrophe (1922) and the Treaty of Lausanne (1923). These refugees arrived in Kallithea mainly from the south Black Sea (Pontus, from ancient Greek cities such as Sinope (now Sinop, Turkey), Sampsus (now Samsun, Turkey), Kerasus (now Giresun, Turkey), Trapezous-Trebizond (now Trabzon, Turkey), Tripolis (now Tirebolu, Turkey), Argyroupolis (now Gümüshane, Turkey) and other remnants of the late Byzantine Empire. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Turkish War of Independence. ... The Treaty of Lausanne was a peace treaty that delimited the boundaries of modern Greece and Turkey. ... Pontus was a name applied in ancient times to extensive tracts of country in the northeast of Asia Minor (modern Turkey) bordering on the Euxine (Black Sea), which was often called simply Pontos (the Main), by the Greeks. ... Sinope was an ancient city on the Black Sea, in the region of Galatia, modern-day Sinop, Turkey. ... Samsun is a city in northern Turkey, on the coast of the Black Sea, with a population of 396,900 as of 2004. ... Giresun is a town in north-eastern Turkey with 90,000 inhabitants (2003 estimate) on the Black Sea. ... Trabzon, formerly known as Trebizond, is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey. ... Gümüshane, also known as Gümüsane or Gumush-Khaneh, is a city in north-western Turkey and is the capital city of Gümüshane Province. ... The Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centred at its capital in Constantinople. ...

A few had arrived earlier (1919) from the north and east (russian) coasts of the Black Sea, from places such as Odessos (Odessa), Marioupolis (Mariupol, Sea of Azov) and other, after the failed attempt of the western allies (Greece included) against the young Bolshevik state during the Russian Civil War. Map of the Black Sea. ... Odessa (Ukrainian: ; Russian: ) is a city in the southwestern Ukraine, major port on the Black Sea and the administrative center of countrys Odessa Oblast (province). ... Mariupol is a city in the Ukraine. ... The shallow Sea of Azov is clearly distinguished from the deeper Black Sea. ... Leaders of the Bolshevik Party and the Communist International, a painting by Malcolm McAllister on the Pathfinder Mural in New York City and on the cover of the book Lenin’s Final Fight published by Pathfinder. ... The Russian Civil War was fought between 1918 and 1922. ...

Black Sea immigrants of Greek origin also settled in Kallithea in the 1930s, as a result of the change of soviet policy towards ethnic groups. Their origins were mainly in the east coast of the Black Sea (Batumi, Sochumi, Novorossiysk, Anapa etc.) A view of Batumi, circa, 1911, towards the mountains Batumi (also Batum or Batoum) is a seaside city (population: approximately 137,000) on the Black Sea coast and capital of Ajaria, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia. ... Novorossiysk (Russian Новороссийск) - city in southern Russia, one of the main Russian ports on the Black Sea, in Krasnodar Krai. ... Anapa is a Russian seaport town, found on the northern coast of the Black Sea near the Sea of Azov. ...

The first refugees settled originally in the site of the Olympic Shoting Range (1896) until they were gradually transferred to new dwellings. After its evacuation the building of the Shooting Range served as a scholl until the Nazi Occupation (1941) when it was converted to prison. The prison of Kallithea was demolished in 1966. Among other, fighters of the Greek Resistance and victims of the Greek Civil War had been jailed there (e.g. Nikos Beloyannis). Look up Nazi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An ELAS resistance fighter The Greek Civil War was a war fought between 1942 and 1949. ... Nikos Beloyannis during the trial, holding a carnation. ...

In the 1990s, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a new wave of Greek immigrants arrived in Kallithea from the east coast of the Black Sea, from the Caucasus highlands in Georgia as well as from distant settlements in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan where their Black Sea Greek ancestors were expelled during the Stalin regime in the 1930s. The Caucasus , a region bordering Asia Minor, is located between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea which includes the Caucasus Mountains and surrounding lowlands. ... Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი; see Other names section) (December 21, 1879[1] – March 5, 1953) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and leader of the Soviet Union. ...

Until 2004 south Kallithea (Tzitzifies) housed the only horse track in Greece (Ippodromos - Hippodrome) which moved to Markopoulon near the Eleftherios Venizelos Airport. The same area of the city (Tzitzifies) is associated with the development of greek folk music (rebetiko and later laiko). Popular composers and singers used to perform there (Markos Vamvakaris, Vassilis Tsitsanis, Yannis Papaioannou, Marika Ninou, Sotiria Bellou, Manolis Chiotis, Mary Linda, Yorgos Zambetas, Stelios Kazantzidis, Marinella, Poly Panou, Viki Moscholiou etc.) The Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport, (IATA: ATH, ICAO: LGAV) which began operation in March 2001, serves the city of Athens in Greece. ... Rebetiko, plural rebetika, (Greek ρεμπέτικο and ρεμπέτικα respectively) is the name for a type of urban Greek music. ... Markos Vamvakaris (May 10, 1905 in Ano Chora in Syros - February 8, 1972) (Greek: Μάρκος Βαμβακάρης), was one of the many important rebetiko musicians of all time. ... Vassilis Tsitsanis (Greek Βασίλης Τσιτσάνης January 18, 1915 - January 18, 1984) was a Greek singer and songwriter. ... Stelios Kazantzidis (August 30, 1932 - September 14, 2001 in Athens, Greece) (Greek: Στέλιος Καζαντζίδης) was a Greek novelist, and a singer. ... Marinella (b. ...

Kallithea houses two universities (Harokopion and Panteion), numerous cultural associations and several sport clubs, the most well known among which are Kallithea FC (soccer) and Esperos (basketball, volleyball, handball, tabletennis as well as soccer in the past). Kallithea FC (Kallithea, Athens, Greece, in Greek Γ.Σ. Καλλιθέα) [1] was founded in 1966 from the amalgamation of four local football (soccer) clubs: Esperos [2] (played in Greek Division 1 in years 1948-49, 1949-50 and 1954-55), Iraklis (Hercules), AE Kallitheas and Kallithaikos. ... Esperos: Greek word, the name of the brightest star that appears first in the Greek sky after sunset (esperas), that is planet Venus. ...

Transportation

The city is accessed from the east by Syngrou Avenue, from the south by Poseidonos Avenue, from the north and west by Kifissos Avenue/GR-1 and from the Athens centre by Thisseos Avenue (via Syntagma, Amalias, Syngrou). The metropolitan railway (line 1 stations Kallithea and Tavros), the tramway (stations Kallithea and Tzitzifies) and numerous bus and trolley-bus lines along the Thisseos, Syngrou and Posseidonos Avenues connect Kallithea to almost any destination in the Athens basin. Greece Interstate 1 is one of the longest highways in Greece. ...

Sites of interest

• Harokopion University.
• Panteion University.
• Municipal Gallery, housed in Laskaridou building, one of the first dwellings in the city.
• Aghia Eleousa church of the late Byzantine period.
• "Kallithea monument", a 4th century BC family tomb, one of the most impressive exhibits of the Piraeus Archaeological Museum.
• Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex on Kallithea beach from the Sports Pavilion (Faliro) to the Olympic Beach Volleyball Centre and the delta of river Ilisos.
• "Argonauts-Comnenus" (Argonaftes-Komnini) fraternity of the Pontus Greeks, aiming at the study and preservation of the history and traditions of their fatherlands.
• "Constantinoplian Society" (Syllogos Konstantinoupoliton) of the Constantinople Greeks that settled in Kallithea forced to abandon Istanbul after the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) as well as in subsequent deteriorations of the Greco-Turkish relations.
• Monument in memory of the Pontus Greeks in the centre of the city (Davaki Square and Gardens).
• Municipal Stadium "Gregoris Lambrakis", where Kallithea FC plays since 1972.

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Historical population

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See also

• List of cities in Greece

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External Links

• The Municipality of Kallithea homepage [1]
• The Panteion University homepage [2]
• The Harokopion University homepage [3]
• The Kallithea FC homepage [4]
• The Esperos sports club homepage [5]