PELLA PREFECTURE

'Pella' (Greek: Πέλλα) is one of the prefectures of Greece. Its capital town is Edessa. The prefecture was created out of the then gigantic Thessaloniki Prefecture in 1947 and is named after the ancient city Pella. The prefecture is in the periphery (an administrative area), of Central Macedonia, in the region of Macedonia.

Contents

Municipalities

Province

Geography

History

Agriculture

Transport

External links

Municipalities

Municipality	YPES code	Seat (if different)	Postal code	Area code
Alexandros o Megas	4108	Galatades	583 00	23820-43
Aridaia	4101		584 00	23840-2
'Edessa'	4104		582 00	23810-2
Exaplatanos	4105		580 04	23840-4
Giannitsa	4103		581 00	23820-2
Krya Vrysi	4106		583 00	23820-6
Kyrros	4107	Mylopotos	581 00	23820-51
Meniida	4109	Kali	585 00	23810-41
Pella, Greece	4110		580 05	23820-3
Skydra	4111		585 00	23810-8
Vegoritida	4102	Arnissa	580 02	23810-31

See also: List of settlements in the Pella prefecture

Province

Provinces of Pella Prefecture	Seat (if different)
Almopia Province	Aridaia
Edessa Province	Edessa
Giannitsa Province	Giannitsa

Geography

The mountains lie to the north and the southwest especially the Vermio mountains, the Voras mountains to the northwest and the Paiko mountains to the northeast. The southernmost portion is flat and in the ancient times, it was a gulf connected with the Aegean Sea, the elevation does not succeed about 5 to 10 m above sea level. Pella is bounded by the prefectures of Kilkis to the northeast, Thessaloniki to the east, Imathia to the south, Kozani to the southwest, by Lake Vegoritida to the southwest, and by Florina Prefecture to the west. On the north, it is bounded by the national border between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. On the other side of the frontier, the district of Brod lies to the northwest and Gevgelija to the northeast. Its famous attraction are the ancient Pella and Edessa including its small waterfall.

History

The area around the modern Pella Prefecture was part of the Kingdom of Macedonia. It later joined the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine and the Ottoman Empires. During 500 years of Turkish rule, there was a revolution and it was the Greek War of Independence and all of its battles were lost and crushed, it did not finally join Greece until 1913 after the end of the Balkan Wars. Pella's economy and agriculture improved and more farmlands were created since the road system is more modernized than the south. Pella saw World War I and later, an influx of refugees from Asia Minor in modern Turkey. After World War II and the Greek Civil War. Radio and automobiles were introduced to the countryside in the 1950s as well as its more roads being paved, television were introduced in the 1970s and 1980s outside the major communities. In 2007, the crops were severely damaged and several farmlands were flooded as a system that arrived from Southern and Central Europe received heavy torrential rain to the prefecture.

Agriculture

The southern part of the prefecture has many orchards. Agriculture once represented its main industry, today, manufacturing, services and other businesses dominates about 70% of its industry.

Transport

★ GR-1 (old highway), SE

★ GR-2/E90, W, SW, Cen., E, SE

★ Edessa - Verroia road, S

External links

★ Prefecture of PELLA

★ Map & info of PELLA Prefecture