Edessa, Greece
Edessa
Έδεσσα | |
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UTC+3 (EEST) | |
Postal code | 582 00 |
Area code(s) | 23810 |
Vehicle registration | ΕΕ |
Website | dimosedessas.gov.gr |
Edessa (
of the same name.Edessa holds a special place in the history of the Greek world as, according to some ancient sources, it was here that
Name
The
Vodená (Βοδενά) was the name used in Greek until 1923, when the ancient name was revived.[9][10] The Bulgarian and Macedonian name remains Voden (Cyrillic: Воден). In Turkish, the city is known as Vodina, and in Aromanian the city is known as either Edessa, Vudena or Vodina.
Municipality
The municipality Edessa was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 2 former municipalities, that became municipal units:[11]
- Edessa
- Vegoritida
The municipality has an area of 611.212 km2, the municipal unit 321.225 km2.[12]
History
According to some ancient writers,
O: laureate draped and cuirassed bust
ΙΟΥΛΙΟϹ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ
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standing behind
ΕΔΕϹϹΑΙΩΝ / ΟΜΟΝΟΙ / Α |
bronze coin struck by Philip the Arab in Edessa 244-249 AD; ref.: Moushmov 6277 Plate XLIV 21 |
Little is known about the fate of the city after 500 AD, but we know that its Greek bishop, Isidoros, participated in the Ecumenical Council of 692.
The city disappears from the sources thereafter, and re-emerges only in the 11th century, in the account of the
Due to its strategic location, controlling the
During the period of Ottoman rule, the Turkish and Muslim component of the town's population steadily increased. From the 1860s onwards, the town was a flashpoint for clashes between Greeks and Bulgarians.[19]
After almost 500 years of Ottoman rule, Edessa was annexed by Greece on 18 October 1912 during the
The town suffered during the last days of
During the
Since the 1970s Edessa's economy no longer relies on industry. At the beginning of the 21st century, it is a city based on services (mostly linked to its function as capital of the Pella regional unit) and tourism due to the many ancient sights nearby, including ancient Pella, the waterfalls and winter sports.
The ancient site (Loggos)
Demographics
Historical populations | |||
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Year | Town | Municipal unit | Municipality |
1913 | 8,846 | - | - |
1920 | 9,441 | - | - |
1928 | 13,115 | - | - |
1940 | 12,000[25] | - | - |
1951 | 14,940 | - | - |
1961 | 15,534 | - | - |
1971 | 13,967 | - | - |
1981 | 16,642 | - | - |
1991 | 17,659 | 25,051 | - |
2001 | 18,253 | 25,619 | - |
2011 | 19,036 | 25,179 | 28,814 |
2021 | 17,848 | 23,210 | 26,407 |
Infrastructure
Transportation
Media
Sports
Edessa hosts two sport clubs with presence or earlier presence in the higher national divisions in Greek football and handball. These clubs are shown below.
Sport clubs based in Edessa | |||
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Club | Founded | Sports | Achievements |
Edessaikos F.C. | 1959 | Football | Earlier presence in A Ethniki |
Aeropos Edessas | 1978 | Handball | Presence in A1 Ethniki handball |
Notable people
- Minas Minoidis (18th century), scholar, figure of the Modern Greek Enlightenment
- Solon Grigoriadis (1912-1994), army officer and journalist
- Dimitris Beis (1928 - 2012) resistance figure against the junta of the Colonels and Mayor of Athens, 1979 - 1986
- Giorgos Paschalidis, (born 1951) former Minister and close associate of Prime Minister Costas Simitis [1]
- Aggelis Gatsos[26] (1771–1839), fighter in the Greek War of Independence
- SNOF
- Hakkı Yeten (1910-1989), famous Turkish Football Player of Beşiktaş J.K.
- Hadži-Neimar (1792-1870), architect and chief builder of the autonomous Principality of Serbia
- Markos Meskos, writer, poet
- Marietta Chrousala (born 1983 ), fashion model and television presenter
Twin cities
Gallery
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View of the area
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Crowd celebrating the liberation of Edessa (First Balkan War)
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A statue of Alexander the Great
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View of the old Kanavourgeio (cannabis factory)
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Folklore museum
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Dormition of Theotokos (14th)
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Interior
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Municipal stadium
See also
- List of settlements in the Pella regional unit
- Edessa Ecclesiastical Museum
- Folklore Museum of Edessa
References
- ^ "Αποτελέσματα Μόνιμου Πληθυσμού κατά δημοτική κοινότητα" (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 21 April 2023.
- ^ "Edessa city of waters. Pella - Macedonia - Greece. Waterfalls, Agios Athanasios, Kaimaktsalan. Εδεσσα, Πέλλα, Μακεδονία, Ελλάδα. Καταρράκτες, Αγιος Αθανάσιος, Καιμάκτσαλάν". www.edessacity.gr. Retrieved 2021-08-16.
- ^ a b c d "Pellanet - Καθημερινή ενημέρωση".
- ^ "Edessa - Tourism".
- ^ N.G.L. Hammond, "The Literary Tradition for the Migrations", in The Cambridge Ancient History II.2B:710 1975
- ^ Hammond N.G.L, A history of Macedonia, Historical geography and prehistory, Vol. 1, Oxford 1979
- ^ Ulrich Wilcken, Alexander the Great, p. 23
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 170.
- ^ Paul Hellander, Greece, Lonely Planet, 2008, p. 302
- ^ cf. Geographical name changes in Greece
- ^ "ΦΕΚ A 87/2010, Kallikratis reform law text" (in Greek). Government Gazette.
- ^ "Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)" (PDF) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-21.
- ^ "Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America". www.antiochian.org. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
- ISBN 9780917651663
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.
- ^ Зборник радова Византолошког института. Научно дело. 1987. p. 219.
... свакако пре 1366/7 ...указана је могућност да га је Хлапен одмах након тога уступио Николи Багашу, ожењеном једном од његвих кћери..
- ^ Зборник радова Византолошког института. Научно дело. 1987. p. 164.
- ISSN 0041-4255.
- ^ Vacalopulos, Konstandinos A. Modern history of Macedonia, Thessaloniki 1988, p. 52, 57, 64
- ^ "Old Hemp of Edessa (Artspace Culture & Industrial Museum)". youingreece.com. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
- ^ "Les Archives de la Macedoine, Fond: Aegean Macedonia in NLW" - (Field report of Mihail Keramidzhiev to the Main Command of NOF), 8 July 1945
- ISBN 0-646-20462-9.
- ISBN 9607213432).
- ISBN 0-646-20462-9.
- ^ "Edessa - 3000 years history". Edessacity.gr. Retrieved 2013-03-26.
- ^ Επίτομο Γεωγραφικό Λεξικό της Ελλάδος (Geographical Dictionary of Greece), Μιχαήλ Σταματελάτος, Φωτεινή Βάμβα-Σταματελάτου, εκδ. Ερμής, ΑΘήνα 2001
Further reading
- F. Papazoglou, Les villes de Macédoine romaine (The Cities of Roman Macedonia), BCH Suppl. 16, 1988, 127–131.
- Walter Bauer, Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity, 1934, (in English 1971) (On-line text)