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Peraia, Thessaloniki

Town in Central Macedonia, Greece

Summary

Town in Central Macedonia, Greece

Field	Value
name	Peraia
name_local	Περαία
type	community
periph	Central Macedonia
periphunit	Thessaloniki
municipality	Thermaikos
municunit	Thermaikos
population	16995
population_as_of	2021
coordinates
image_skyline	Περαία_-_Αεροφωτογραφία.JPG
caption_skyline	Aerial view of Peraia

Peraia () is a small town south of Thessaloniki in Greece. It is part of the municipality of Thermaikos. Peraia is located on the south coast of the Thermaic Gulf, 15 km south of the Thessaloniki city centre and 4 km west of the Thessaloniki International Airport.

History

As is the case for the two other communities in the municipal unit of Thermaikos, Agia Triada and Neoi Epivates, the origin of settlement in Peraia was the arrival of 740 refugees from Asia Minor and Eastern Thrace in 1923, as a result of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–22).

Today Peraia, together with the other suburbs of Thermaikos, forms one of the most rapidly developing suburbs of Thessaloniki, with many people choosing to move there; but infrastructure is hardly keeping pace, with many roads remaining unopened or inadequate for today's needs. Although developments have been made in creating a pedestrianised beachfront and creating new open spaces.

References

(26 September 2014). "Greek woman 'buried alive by accident'". BBC News.

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