Menemeni is a suburb of the

Thessaloniki Urban Area The Thessaloniki metropolitan area or larger urban zone (LUZ) is the complete area covered and directly influenced by Thessaloniki. The metropolitan area traditionally consisted of the municipality of Thessaloniki and its immediate surroundings, w ...

and was a former municipality in the regional unit of Thessaloniki,

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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality

Ampelokipoi-Menemeni Ampelokipoi–Menemeni ( el, Αμπελόκηποι-Μενεμένη) is a municipality of the Thessaloniki Urban Area in the regional unit of Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Re ...

, of which it is a municipal unit. It neighbors

Evosmos Evosmos ( el, Εύοσμος, ''Évosmos''; before 1955: ''Neos Koukloutzas'' (Νέος Κουκλουτζάς, ''Néos Koukloutzás'')) is a suburb of the Thessaloniki Urban Area and was a former municipality in the regional unit of Thessaloniki ...

, Ampelokipoi,

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...

and

Echedoros Echedoros ( el, Εχέδωρος) is a former municipality in the Thessaloniki regional unit, Greece. The seat of the municipality was in Sindos. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Delta Delta commonly refers to ...

. Menemeni includes the quarters of Vosporos, Agios Nektarios, Dialogi and Lachanokipoi. According to the 2011 census the population was 14,746 inhabitants. The municipal unit has an area of 7.989 km².

History

Soon after the 1912 release and the incorporation in the national trunk of the Greek territories of Macedonia, the

Municipality of Thessaloniki The Municipality of Thessaloniki ( el, Δήμος Θεσσαλονίκης, ''Dímos Thessaloníkis'') is the second largest municipality by population in Greece after the Municipality of Athens. According to the 2011 Greek census, it has a popu ...

was reorganized by the “official journal of the Hellenic Republic 98/5-5-1918) on 3 May 1918. The particular conditions that prevailed, the local peculiarities and the dynamics of developments determined so much the development of the Municipality of Thessaloniki that the communities slowly began to integrate. Between these also Menemeni, that was created by families of refugees from Menemen, Smyrna (modern Izmir) afterwards the

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destruction in 1922. In 1926 Menemeni was extracted from the municipality of Thessaloniki along with the settlements of Charmankioi, Lebet (

Stavroupoli Stavroupoli ( el, Σταυρούπολη, literally ''city of the Cross'') is a suburb of the Thessaloniki Urban Area and was a former municipality in the regional unit of Thessaloniki, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it has been ...

Efkarpia Efkarpia ( el, Ευκαρπία) is a suburb 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 Pavlos Melas Pavlos Melas ...

and Kara-Isin (

Polichni Polichni ( el, Πολίχνη, literally ''Little town'') is a suburb of the Thessaloniki Urban Area and was a former municipality in the regional unit of Thessaloniki, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality ...

) and they constituted the Community of Charmankioi, in which were added the settlements of Neos Koukloutzas aka

, Ampelokipoi, Nea Menemeni and Neo Kordelio. This community included itself once again in the Municipality of Thessalonika in 1929. Until 1934 the Municipality of Thessaloniki included almost entire the built-up urban group of city. With the “official journal of the Hellenic Republic 23/34” in 1934, important realignments in the administrative limits of Municipality of Thessaloniki came into effect and new communities were created. Thus, the settlements of Menemeni, New Charmankioi, New Bosporus, New Menemeni constituted the Community of Menemeni. The communities of Eleftherio, Menemeni,

Pylaia Pylaia ( el, Πυλαία) is a former municipality in the Thessaloniki Prefecture of Greece. In the 2011 local government reform, Thessaloniki Prefecture became the regional unit of Thessaloniki (without boundary changes), and Pylaia became a par ...

and Triandria were recognized as municipalities afterwards 1981, when population increased bigger than the limit of ten thousands of residents.

Transportation

Public transport in Menemeni is currently served only by buses (Route 20 Menemeni-Ermou). The bus company operating throughout the city is called Organismos Astikon Sygkoinonion Thessalonikis (

OASTH The Thessaloniki Urban Transport Organisation ( el, Οργανισμός Αστικών Συγκοινωνιών Θεσσαλονίκης), abbreviated OASTH ( el, ΟΑΣΘ), is a mass transport company operating in Thessaloniki, Greece. It w ...

). An underground service is about to be launched near 2010 operating, at the beginning at least, mainly in the center of the

city. Further expansions on the west side are still under consideration for the "

Thessaloniki Metro The Thessaloniki Metro ( el, Μετρό Θεσσαλονίκης, ', ) is an underground rapid-transit system under construction in Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city. Estimates for the cost of the megaproject are €1.62 billion ...

People

* Stelios Kitsiou, footballer

Twinnings

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References

External links

Government

Official website

Thessaloniki Port AuthorityΟΑΣΘ - Organisation of Urban Transport of Thessaloniki
(Greek & English) Populated places in Thessaloniki (regional unit) {{CMacedonia-geo-stub