Kallithea, Greece

• Kallithea is the 8th largest municipality in Greece (109,609 inhabitants, 2001 census) and the 4th biggest in the Athens urban area. Additionally, it is the second-most densely populated municipality in Greece, with 23,080 inhabitants.

  Between the first modern games (1896) and the recent (2004) Olympic Games in the city, Kallithea grew significantly. Initially the tramway depot and workshop were built here in 1910, followed by the Harokopios Graduate School (1925) and the Panteios Graduate School of Political Sciences (1928). In the 1920s the town was flooded by thousands of refugees following 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, from ancient Greek cities such as Sinope, Sampsus, Kerasus, Trapezous-Trebizond, Tripolis, Argyroupolis and other remnants of the late Byzantine Empire.

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