Agios Dimitrios (
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: Άγιος Δημήτριος meaning
Saint Dimitrios, before 1928: Μπραχάμι - ''Brahami''
[Name changes of settlements in Greece]
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Geography
Agios Dimitrios is situated 5 km south of Athens city centre, and 4 km from the Saronic Gulf
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coast. The municipality has an area of 4.949 km2. Vouliagmenis Avenue
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connects it with central Athens and the southern suburbs. The suburb is connected with Line 2 of the Athens Metro
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through Agios Dimitrios metro station
Agios Dimitrios–Alexandros Panagoulis ( el, Άγιος Δημήτριος–Αλέξανδρος Παναγούλης), commonly known as Agios Dimitrios, and also known as Aghios Dimitrios on signage, is a station on line 2 of the Athens Met ...
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Climate
Agios Dimitrios has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate
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: ''Csa''), bordering on a hot semi-arid climate
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(Köppen climate classification
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: ''BSh''). Agios Dimitrios experiences hot, dry summers and mild, wetter winters.
History
The settlement developed around the church of Ag. Dimitrios was the original web of the village of
Brahami during the interwar period.
In the Turkish occupation, but also after the liberation, all Alimos, and not only, was a vast estate. His beginning was in St. John the Kareah and extended to Kavouri. The area, including the agricultural village, belonged to Braham Pasha - by which Aghios Dimitrios is also called Brahami - and to Hassan Pasha, which came from the name Hassani. All this property was divided into parcels, which the municipality of Athens, to which it belonged, donated or sold. This resulted in the creation of various settlements.
The Community of Brahami was founded in 1925. Until then the village of Brahami belonged to the municipality of Athens. By Decree of 1925, Brahami was administered autonomously by the Athenian municipality and was a community comprising the settlements of Brahami, Agia Varvara, Katsipodi ( Dafni today), Pikrodafni and Agios Kosmas. In 1928 the community was renamed Aghios Dimitrios. It was converted into a municipality of Aghios Dimitrios, which was based in Daphne in 1942.
In 1947, with the Decree issued on September 5, 1947, the settlement of Aghios Dimitrios was seized by the Municipality of Dafni and formed into a separate homonymous community, which included exclusively Brahami. The final adjustment was made in 1963, when the then Home Secretary G. Rallies on 15 March approved the conversion of the Community of Aghios Dimitrios into a homonymous municipality, as it is today.
Historical Population
Sports
The most important clubs based in Aghios Dimitrios is the football club Agios Dimitrios F.C.
Agios Dimitrios Football Club (Greek: Π.Α.Ε. Άγιος Δημήτριος), also known as ''Brahami'', is a Greek association football club based in Agios Dimitrios, Athens, Greece.
The association was founded in 1928, based on the idea of ...
Thyella Agiou Dimitriou
and the basketball club Cronus Agios Dimitrios.
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, a suburb of Naples
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References
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Populated places in South Athens (regional unit)