Nea Moudania
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Nea Moudania is the seat of the municipality of Nea Propontida
Nea Propontida
Nea Propontida is a municipality in the Chalkidiki peripheral unit, Central Macedonia, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Nea Moudania.-Municipality:...

, Chalkidiki, Greece
Greece
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 and its main town. The town is located 60 km south of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace...

 and is considered to be the financial and commercial center of the peripheral unit
Peripheral units of Greece
The 74 regional units are administrative units of Greece. They are subdivisions of the country's 13 regions, further subdivided into municipalities. They were introduced as part of the "Kallikratis" administrative reform on 1 January 2011 and are comparable in size and often coterminous with the...

 of Chalkidiki. It was built after 1922 by Greek refugees from Anatolia
Anatolia
Anatolia is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey...

 who wanted to give the settlement the name of their hometown (now Mudanya
Mudanya
Mudanya , is a town and district of Bursa Province in the Marmara region of Turkey. It is located on the Gulf of Gemlik, part of the south coast of the Sea of Marmara. As of 1911, it was connected with Bursa by a railway and a carriage road, and with Istanbul by steamers...

, Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

), hence the addition of the word nea, which means new in Greek
Greek language
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. Nea Moudania hosts the Department of Fisheries & Aquaculture Technologyhttp://www.aqua.teithe.gr/index_en.html of the Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki
Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki
- Departments and faculties :The university includes 5 schools, consisting of 22 departments:* STEF : School of Technological Applications** Department of Informatics** Department of Automation** Department of Electronics...

. The town also features a harbor which serves as Thessaloniki's
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace...

 adjuvant.

Sports

POM (Panathletic Association of Moudania) is the only sports club
Sports club
A sports club or sport club, sometimes athletics club or sports association is a club for the purpose of playing one or more sports...

 in Nea Moudania, whose football team play in the Delta Ethniki, while the volleyball team play in the A2 Ethniki Volleyball.

Historical Population

Year Population
1981 4,142
1991 4,403
2001 6,475

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See also

  • List of settlements in the Chalkidiki prefecture
  • Apamea Myrlea
    Apamea Myrlea
    Apamea Myrlea, or Apamea Myrleon, was an ancient city on the Sea of Marmara, in Bithynia, Anatolia; the ruins are now found a few kilometers south of Mudanya, Bursa Province in the Asian part of Turkey.-Names:...

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