Nea Filadelfeia ( el, Νέα Φιλαδέλφεια, meaning ''New Philadelphia'') is a suburb of

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

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

Filadelfeia-Chalkidona Filadelfeia-Chalkidona ( el, Φιλαδέλφεια-Χαλκηδόνα) is a municipality in the Central Athens regional unit, Attica, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Nea Filadelfeia. The municipality has an area of 3.650 km2. Mu ...

, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 2.850 km². It was named after the

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n city Filadelfeia, now

Alaşehir Alaşehir (), in Antiquity and the Middle Ages known as Philadelphia ( el, Φιλαδέλφεια, i.e., "the city of him who loves his brother"), is a town and district of Manisa Province in the Aegean region of Turkey. It is situated in the va ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

, and it was settled by Greek refugees from

Asia Minor Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey. The re ...

after the

Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) There have been several Greco-Turkish Wars: *Greek War of Independence (1821–1830), against the Ottoman Empire *Undeclared war in 1854 during the Crimean War, with Greek irregulars invading Ottoman Epirus ( Epirus Revolt of 1854) and Thessaly * Fi ...

Geography

Nea Filadelfeia is a suburb of Athens, north of the city centre. Its built-up area is continuous with that of municipality of Athens and the surrounding suburbs

Nea Chalkidona Nea Chalkidona ( el, Νέα Χαλκηδόνα, meaning New Chalcedon) is a suburb of Athens, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Filadelfeia-Chalkidona, of which it is a municipal unit. Nea Chalkidona ...

, Agioi Anargyroi, Acharnes,

Metamorfosi Metamorfosi ( el, Μεταμόρφωση, Metamórfosi, transfiguration; before 1957: Koukouvaounes ( el, link=no, Κουκουβάουνες, Koukouváounes) is a suburb in the northern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece, and a municipalit ...

and

Nea Ionia Nea Ionia ( el, Νέα Ιωνία, meaning New Ionia) is a northern suburb of Athens, Greece, and a municipality of the Attica region. It was named after Ionia, the region in Anatolia from which many Greeks migrated in the 1920s as a part of the ...

. Motorway 1 (Athens - Thessaloniki) and

Greek National Road 1 Greek National Road 1 ( el, Εθνική Οδός 1, abbreviated as EO1) is the old single carriageway road connecting Athens with Thessaloniki and Evzonoi, the border crossing between Greece and North Macedonia. For most of its length, it has ...

pass through the town. Nea Filadelfeia has a large park, Alsos Neas Filadelfias, which covers . The park formerly hosted a large

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which operated since 1955 to 1995. Nea Filadelfeia is roughly located at the geographical center of the

Attica Attica ( el, Αττική, Ancient Greek ''Attikḗ'' or , or ), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and its countryside. It is a peninsula projecting into the Aegean S ...

peninsula, around 13 km from the sea to the south suburbs and at a low elevation.

Education

Nea Filadelfeia has 9 primary schools, 4 secondary schools (one of them is athletic type) and 3 high schools. Among them is th
3rd High School of Nea Filadelfia "Miltos Kountouras"

Sports

Nea Filadelfeia is the historical home of A.E.K., a major Greek Multi-Sports Club established in 1924 in Nea Filadelfeia. It is also the home of

Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia (also Ionikos Nea Philadelphia) is a sport club that is based in Nea Filadelfeia, an Athenian suburb. The full name of club is A.S. Ionikos Nea Filadelfeia (Greek: Α. Σ. Ιωνικός Νέας Φιλαδέλφειας). ...

. The now demolished

Nikos Goumas Stadium Nikos Goumas Stadium ( el, Στάδιο Νίκος Γκούμας) was a multi-purpose stadium in Nea Filadelfeia, a northwestern suburb of Athens, Greece. It was used mostly for football matches and was the home stadium of AEK Athens F.C. It i ...

was the home ground of

AEK F.C. AEK FC ( el, ΠΑΕ A.E.K. ; Αθλητική Ένωσις Κωνσταντινουπόλεως; ''Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupόleos'', meaning ''Athletic Union of Constantinople'') is a Greek professional football club based in Nea Filade ...

from 1930 to 2003, while the

Agia Sophia Stadium The Agia Sophia Stadium (), also known by its commercial name OPAP Arena, is the home stadium of AEK Athens FC. With an all-seater capacity of 32,500, it is the largest football-only stadium and the second largest football stadium overall in Gr ...

is the new home ground from 2022. The

sports club is renowned in Greece and abroad for its handball, volleyball and basketball achievements.

Historical population

Climate

According to the

Köppen Climate Classification The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notabl ...

system, Nea Filadelfeia has a

hot-summer Mediterranean climate A Mediterranean climate (also called a dry summer temperate climate ''Cs'') is a temperate climate sub-type, generally characterized by warm, dry summers and mild, fairly wet winters; these weather conditions are typically experienced in the ...

. Nea Filadelfeia is notorious in Greece for its summer heat; according to the

Hellenic National Meteorological Service The Hellenic National Meteorological Service (HNMS) ( el, Εθνική Μετεωρολογική Υπηρεσία (ΕΜΥ)) is a government agency responsible for making weather forecasts and observations for Greece. HNMS was founded in 1931 under ...

it registers Greece's highest mean maximum summer temperatures for the period 1955-1997. On 26 June 2007, Nea Filadelfeia recorded while on the same day, the nearby official automatic H.N.M.S. weather station recorded , which is Europe's highest June temperature to date. The mean maximum July temperature for Nea Filadelfeia for the period 1991-2020 stands at , while the past 20 years it reaches .

Notable people

* Elena Nathanael, Greek actress * Ange Postecoglou, former coach of the

Australian national football team The Australia men's national soccer team represents Australia in international men's soccer. Officially nicknamed the Socceroos, the team is controlled by the governing body for soccer in Australia, Football Australia, which is affiliated wi ...

and Current Coach of Celtic F.C

Gallery

File:Nea Filadelfia Lavriou street.JPG, Lavriou street File:Nea Filadelfia cooperative housing.JPG, Typical workers cooperative housing File:Nea Filadelfia lake.JPG, Artificial lake in the park of Nea Filadelfia File:020 - Κηφισός μετά τη συμβολή με ρέμα Αχαρνών (Κόκκ.Μύλος) - panoramio.jpg, Kifisos river File:Nikos Goumas Main.gif, The old

File:2011 Dimos Filadelfias-Chalkidonos.png, Filadelfia - Chalkidona municipality

References

External links

Official website

Νέα Φιλαδέλφεια
{{Filadelfeia-Chalkidona div Populated places in Central Athens (regional unit)