Place:Kaisariani, Athens, Attikis, Greece

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NameKaisariani
Alt namesKaisarianísource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCity or town
Coordinates37.967°N 23.8°E
Located inAthens, Attikis, Greece
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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Kaisariani is a suburb and a municipality in the eastern part of the Athens agglomeration in Greece.

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History

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The town was founded in 1922 as a refugee camp for refugees driven from Asia Minor, most of whom coming from Smyrna. Formerly part of the municipality of Athens, Kaisariani was created as a municipality in 1933. The name was derived from Caesarea, the historical capital city of Cappadocia, Asia Minor (now Kayseri, Turkey).

The Kaisariani rifle range is notable as the site of the execution of 200 communists on 1 May 1944 by the Nazi occupiers as a revenge for the death of German general Franz Krech, who had been killed in a guerrilla ambush near Molaoi a few days before.

In the early hours of June 17, 1944, 10 men of the United Panhellenic Organization of Youth and guerillas of the National Liberation Front were killed, when trapped by the Nazi forces at the Monastery of Kaisariani, where they had been hiding.

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Historical population

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Year Population
1981 28,972
1991 26,803
2001 26,419
2011 26,458
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