Galatsi
Sign in to saveGalatsi (, Galátsi ), called in Katharevousa Galatsion (, Galátsion), is a town, a northern suburb of Athens agglomeration, Greece, and a municipality of the Attica region. The municipality has an area of 4.026 km2. Until the mid-20th century, the area was mainly made up of farmlands but due to the continuous expansion of the Greek capital, Galatsi was rapidly urbanised and has come to lie in the center of the Athens agglomeration.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Galatsi is referenced by 127 other articles, and connects out to Greece, Athens and Greek.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 3 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Galatsi, Municipalities of Attica and Populated places in Central Athens (regional unit).
Its subject is documented across 24 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Galatsi
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Γαλάτσι
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipality
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- 2011 Dimos Galatsiou.png
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Attica
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Central Athens
- Greek Dimos.pop_municipality
- 57909
- Greek Dimos.area_municipality
- 4.026
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.elevation
- 160
- Greek Dimos.postal_code
- 111 xx
- Greek Dimos.area_code
- 210
- Greek Dimos.licence
- Z
- Greek Dimos.website
- www.galatsi.gr
- Greek Dimos.districts
- 1
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- suburb
- Country
- Greece
- Located in
- Galatsi Municipality
- Population
- 63418
- Area
- 4.02
- Elevation
- 160
- Shares border with
- Nea Ionia
- Official website
- www.galatsi.gr
- Image
- Βεϊκου (Απέναντι) - panoramio.jpg
- Dialing code
- 210
- Licence plate code
- Z
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- postal code
- 111 00–111 99
- topic's main category
- Category:Galatsi
- Commons category
- Galatsi
- native label
- Γαλάτσι
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
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Galatsi (, Galátsi ), called in Katharevousa Galatsion (, Galátsion), is a town, a northern suburb of Athens agglomeration, Greece, and a municipality of the Attica region. The municipality has an area of 4.026 km2. Until the mid-20th century, the area was mainly made up of farmlands but due to the continuous expansion of the Greek capital, Galatsi was rapidly urbanised and has come to lie in the center of the Athens agglomeration.
==Etymology== Although several etymologies have been proposed about the origin of the name Galatsi, which already appears in the book of 1870, History of Athens, it originates from the surname of Symeon Galakis, a squire who purchased lands around the church of Agia Glykeria in 1851. Consequently, the whole area was given his name, which, according to the phenomenon featuring the old Athenian phonology and known as tsitakism, was pronounced 'Galatsis', thus the name of the area was finally Galatsi. An alternative theory suggests that it derived from gala, the Greek word for the milk that the shepherds of the area's rangelands yelled hovering around in order to sell their products.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Galatsi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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