NEA MAKRI

'Nea Makri' (Greek: Νέα Μάκρη), also 'Nea Makris' is a town located in the northeastern part of Attica and the peninsula.

Contents

Town layout

History

Location

Population

Other

Settlements

Sporting Teams

Other

Historical population

External links

See also

Town layout

The street system is gridded aligning within Petalies Gulf connecting the Aegean Sea to the east. Nea Makri is linked with Marathonos Avenue (GR-53) that ends at Marathon to the north, and which added two more lanes between 2002 and 2005 and became a divided avenue to the west which stretches up to Nea Makri and GR-83 to the north. Other main streets include Poseidonos Avenue.

History

The area was once known as ''Plesti'', but following the 1922 Greek military disaster in Asia Minor and the subsequent repatriation of Greeks from the town of Makri, it was renamed ''Nea'' Makri (''New'' Makri).

Location

The Penteli mountains that are covered with forests lie to the west and southwest while farmlands are within Petalies Gulf and to the north except for the downtown part of Nea Makri. Beaches cover the eastern part and restaurants, hotels, and tavernas cover the area within the shoreline. Nea Makri is located NE of Athens and the Attiki Odos (number 63), NNE of the Eleftherios Venizelos Airport, SE of GR-1 and SW of Grammatiko.

Population

Until the 1970s, most of the population was rural. As housing developments came to the area, the population boomed and filled into the settlements. Housing developments continue to this day.

Other

There was an American naval communications base north of Nea Makri from the mid to the late 20th century.
The outbreak of the disease of 1996 did not affect Nea Makri, but the July 28, 2005 forest fire affected the southern part as smoke blanketed the southern part during the evening hours. The fire did not threaten Nea Makri at all. The threat was floods on November 24, 2005, and flooded streets and residential buildings, destroying properties as well as their homes, which was rare and caused traffic chaos as some automobiles were stranded.

Settlements

★ Limanaki
The American naval communications station was the deployment location for NMCB-133, homeported in Gulfport, MS.

Sporting Teams

★ Nea Makri FC - junior division

Other

Nea Makri has schools, lyceums, gymnasia, banks, churches, a post office, beaches and squares (''plateies'').

Historical population

Year	Population	Change	Municipal population
1981	8,516	-	-
1991	12,120	3,604/42.3%	13,009

External links

★ Mapquest - Nea Makri, street map not available

★ Coordinates:

'Northwest:' Rodopoli	'North:' Marathon
'West:' Penteli and Dionyssos	'Nea Makri'	'East:' ''Petalies Gulf, Aegean Sea''
'Southwest:' Penteli	'South:' Rafina

See also

★ List of municipalities of Attica