Saranta Ekklisies ( el, Σαράντα Εκκλησιές "Forty Churches") is a neighbourhood in
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 ...
,
Greece
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. It is located next to the
Ano Poli.
It was created in the 1920s during the
Greek-Turkish population exchange
The 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey ( el, Ἡ Ἀνταλλαγή, I Antallagí, ota, مبادله, Mübâdele, tr, Mübadele) stemmed from the "Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations" signed at ...
by Greek refugees from the city of
Saranta Ekklisies (currently known as Kırklareli) in
Eastern Thrace
Eastern may refer to:
Transportation
* China Eastern Airlines, a current Chinese airline based in Shanghai
*Eastern Air, former name of Zambia Skyways
*Eastern Air Lines, a defunct American airline that operated from 1926 to 1991
* Eastern Air ...
.
The central street was constructed in 1940. Beside the area there was the Jewish cemetery.
Streets
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Kyriakidi Street
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Teloglou Street
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Vizyinou Street
People
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Dinos Christianopoulos
Konstantinos Dimitriadis ( el, Ντίνος Χριστιανόπουλος; 20 March 1931 – 11 August 2020), better known by his pen name Dinos Christianopoulos, was a Greek contemporary and post-war poet, novelist, folklorist, and scholar. He ...
, poet
References
Σαράντα Εκκλησιές
Populated places in Thessaloniki (regional unit)
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