Pavlos Melas (municipality)
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Pavlos Melas Παύλος Μελάς |
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 Pavlos Melas
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| Coordinates: 40°40′N 22°56′E / 40.667°N 22.933°ECoordinates: 40°40′N 22°56′E / 40.667°N 22.933°E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | Central Macedonia |
| Regional unit | Thessaloniki |
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| • Municipality | 23.763 km2 (9.175 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Municipality | 99,245 |
| • Municipality density | 4,200/km2 (11,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
| Website | [1] |
Pavlos Melas is a municipality in the regional unit of Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. It was named after the Greek hero of the Macedonian Struggle, Pavlos Melas. It was formed at the administrative reform introduced by the governmental Kallikratis plan (N. 3852 / 7-6-2010). It is the result of the unification of the former municipalities of Efkarpia, Polichni and Stavroupoli. The area of the new Municipality is 23.763 km2. Its population is 99,245 based on the last official census of 2011. The seat of the municipality is in Stavroupoli.
The modern outlook of the Municipality is a result of a gradual town planning which is closely connected to the residential course of action of the northern and western prefecture of the previous urban core of Thessaloniki. Since the homing of refugees - when the first systematic settlement of the area of interest takes place - and at different time zones the advent of new populations broadened its district creating urban pocks of residency that according to the circumstances and the time of development they acquired special town planning and social characteristics. Despite the co-ordinated efforts of the past decades of restraint of urban diffusion, it is still ongoing and characterizes the area of the Municipality, including the areas with especially dense urban web but also regions with greater distance from the city center, legally or illegally developed with less urban characteristics. The immediate proximity of the Municipality with transportational axes of entry and exit of the city, in the past and today, has as a result the mixture of usually incompatible practices with the existence of industrial and craft units, enough of which have been abandoned or dis-function. The wide peri-urban zone of the Municipality apart from the production units includes other activities of metropolitan and regional scale, such as the two hospitals and other fallow green and reforested areas of the peri-urban mountainous zone.
The Municipality of Pavlos Melas like all other municipalities of Greece have the following responsibilities:
Finally, among others and in accordance to the internal regulation plan of Municipalities and Communities, Pavlos Melas exerts state responsibilities at a local level. That is responsibilities on matters of urban situation, concerning granting licenses of retail markets, of outdoor itinerant trade, operation of exhibitions, foundation and operation of flee markets e.t.c.
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