History
A short presentation about Nea Ionia History. You will find where the people came from ,why and how
Historical retrospection
off N.Ionia
municipality.
New Jonia it was founded 1923. As its day of foundation is considered Sunday of 27 June 1923, when became the foundation took place the refugees were settled by the head of Revolutionary Government, Nikolaos Plastiras and the priest Papaioakim Pesmatzogloy, which had led as other Mouses, their thousands compatriots of Spartalides (from the city Sparta of pisidia) to Greece, afterwards the Minor-asia Destruction. Except the Spartalis,who were the first to settle in the region, which then was named "Podarades" and was depended in the Municipality Athenians, refugees came from the Jnepoli and the Kastamoni, the Saframpoli, the Neapoli, the Kappadokia, the Alaia and the Attalia of Pamfylias and still from the Smyrni and her outskirts, the Voyrla, Aivali, the Thiatira and other states of M. Asia where was flourishing important Greek orthodoxe communities.
The city was developed very rapidly, despite the horrible lacks and the offest-hand installation in small refugees settlements or even in scenes of thousands of refugees. ' Being most residents bourgeoes ' refugees, capable in the trade and the enterprises elected fast their state in big industrial centre, with main sectors: the textile and carpets.Fast the N. Ionia became pole of attraction of thousands of workers from the province in 1934, with other settlements of Athens and Piraeus, the N. ionia was named municipality.
Ancient Ionia
Kappadokia
Smyrni – Σμύρνη - Ιzmir
Kappadokia