Michaniona ( el, Μηχανιώνα) was a former municipality in the
Thessaloniki regional unit,
Greece
Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with ...
. Since the 2011 local government reform, the town/suburb is part of the municipality of
Thermaikos
Thermaikos ( el, Θερμαϊκός) is a suburban municipality of the regional unit of Thessaloniki, Greece. It consists of the municipal units Thermaikos, Epanomi and Michaniona. The municipal unit Thermaikos is subdivided into the communities ...
, of which it is a municipal unit.
Population 11,901 (2011). The municipal unit has an area of 21.569 km
2.
The seat of the municipality was in Nea Michaniona. The other communities in the municipal unit are
Angelochori
Angelochori ( el, Αγγελοχώρι) is a village in the municipal unit of Michaniona, in the Thessaloniki regional unit, Greece
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and
Nea Kerasia.
The town was settled by
Greek refugees
Greek refugees is a collective term used to refer to the more than one million Greek Orthodox natives of Asia Minor, Thrace and the Black Sea areas who fled during the Greek genocide (1914-1923) and Greece's later defeat in the Greco-Turkish War ...
from the original Michaniona on the
Cyzicus
Cyzicus (; grc, Κύζικος ''Kúzikos''; ota, آیدینجق, ''Aydıncıḳ'') was an ancient Greek town in Mysia in Anatolia in the current Balıkesir Province of Turkey. It was located on the shoreward side of the present Kapıdağ Peni ...
peninsula in the
Sea of Marmara
The Sea of Marmara,; grc, Προποντίς, Προποντίδα, Propontís, Propontída also known as the Marmara Sea, is an inland sea located entirely within the borders of Turkey. It connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea via the ...
.
References
Populated places in Thessaloniki (regional unit)
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