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Polichni

Polichni is a suburb of the Thessaloniki Urban Area and was a former municipality in the , , . Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality , of which it is a municipal unit.
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  • Type: Suburb with 56,700 residents
  • Description: suburb of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Also known as: “Kara-Isin”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hagios Demetrios and Byzantine Bath.

Church
Photo: Vanbasten 23, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Church of Saint Demetrius, or , is the main sanctuary dedicated to Saint Demetrius, the patron saint of , dating from a time when it was the second largest city of the Byzantine Empire.

Archaeological site
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The of the Upper City in is one of the few and best preserved of the Byzantine baths that have survived from the Byzantine period in .

Museum
Photo: Ggia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , also known as the Ishak Pasha Mosque, is a in , . Completed in the 1480s, during the Ottoman era, the mosque was built under the direction of Ishak Pasha.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Thessaloniki and Evosmos.

Photo: Dockashi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the capital of , and with one million inhabitants, the second largest city in . It is a city with a continuous 3,000-year history, preserving relics of its Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman past and of its formerly dominant Jewish population.

Suburb
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is a suburb of the Thessaloniki Urban Area and was a former municipality in the , , . Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality , of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.

Suburb
Photo: Morphosis, Public domain.
is a suburb of the Thessaloniki Urban Area and a former municipality in the , . Since the 2011 local government reform it has been part of the , of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.

Polichni

Latitude
40.6649° or 40° 39′ 54″ north
Longitude
22.9501° or 22° 57′ 0″ east
Population
56,700
Elevation
109 metres (358 feet)
United Nations Location Code
GR PON
Open location code
8GG4MX72+W2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 251028077
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
734538
Wiki­data ID
Q182327
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Polichni” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بوليخني”
  • Bulgarian: “Полихни”
  • Cebuano: “Políchni”
  • Dutch: “Polichni”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوليخنى”
  • Finnish: “Políchni”
  • French: “Polichni”
  • French: “Políchni”
  • German: “Polichni”
  • Greek: “Καρά-Ισίν”
  • Greek: “Καραϊσίν”
  • Greek: “Πολίχνη Θεσσαλονίκης”
  • Greek: “Πολίχνη”
  • Hungarian: “Políhni”
  • Irish: “Polichni”
  • Italian: “Polichni”
  • Japanese: “ポリフニ”
  • Kurdish: “Polîxnî”
  • Macedonian: “Кара Усеин”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Políkhni”
  • Persian: “پولیخنی”
  • Polish: “Polichni”
  • Pontic: “Καραϊσίν”
  • Romanian: “Polichni”
  • Russian: “Полихни”
  • Serbian: “Кара Исин”
  • Serbian: “Полихни”
  • Spanish: “Polichni”
  • Swedish: “Políchni”
  • Turkish: “Karaışın”
  • Ukrainian: “Поліхні”
  • Urdu: “پولیخنی”

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