Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace
| Υπουργείο Μακεδονίας και Θράκης | |
 The building of the ministry in Thessaloniki |
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| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 1912 |
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| Headquarters | 32 Kassandrou Street 54633 Thessaloniki Greece 40°38′N 22°56′E / 40.633°N 22.933°E |
| Annual budget |
€ 12.35 million (2010) € 21.23 million (2009) |
| Minister responsible | |
| Website | www |
The Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace (Greek: Υπουργείο Μακεδονίας και Θράκης, ΥΜΑΘ) is a former government department of Greece. It was responsible for the regions of Macedonia and Thrace but now the responsibility for these areas has been given to the Deputy Minister for Macedonia and Thrace, currently Maria Kollia-Tsaroucha, within the Ministry of the Interior and Administrative Reconstruction.
This ministry had been previously known as the Ministry of Northern Greece until it acquired the name of the title in 1988. It was demoted to a general secretariat in 2009, but was re-established as a ministry in 2012, and demoted to an under-ministry within the Ministry of the Interior in January 2015. It is housed in Government House in the capital of Macedonia, Thessaloniki.
The ministry was founded in 1912 as the Governorate-General of Macedonia (Γενικὴ Διοίκησις Μακεδονίας) following the acquisition of Macedonia during the Balkan Wars. It was promoted to cabinet level in the late 1920s and renamed the Governorate-General of Northern Greece (Γενικὴ Διοίκησις Βορείου Ἑλλάδος) in 1945, after being merged with the Governorate-General of Thrace (Γενικὴ Διοίκησις Θρᾴκης).
It was renamed the Ministry of Northern Greece (Ὑπουργεῖον Βορείου Ἑλλάδος) in 1955. The third name change occurred in 1988, when it was renamed the Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace. In 2009, the ministry was downgraded to a General Secretariat within the Ministry of the Interior, until it was re-established as a separate ministry in 2012. With the legislative election of SYRIZA in January 2015, the ministry was once more subordinated to the Ministry of the Interior and Administrative Reconstruction, headed by a deputy minister.
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