Plateia
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Plateia or platia (πλατεία) is the Greek word for town square. Most Greek and Cypriot cities have several town squares which are a point of reference in travelling and guiding. In traditional societies like villages and provincial communities, plateies are the central places for feasts, celebrations, events and meetings.
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[edit] Most notable squares/plateies (ordered by place)
[edit] Cyprus
- Eleftheria Square - Nicosia & Larnaca
- Troodos square - Troodos mountains; used as a point of reference for meteorological, (time) distance and altitude purposes.
[edit] Greece
- Agia Paraskevi Square - Agia Paraskevi
- Iroon Square - Ano Liosia
- Agia Triada Square - Argyroupoli
- Athens:
- Eleftherias Square
- Iroon Square
- Kotzia Square (by the city hall of Athens)
- Lysikratous Square
- Mitropouleos Squareropouleos
- Monastiraki Square
- Omonoia Square Plateia Omonoias
- Syntagma Square (Constitution Square Plateia Syntagmatos)
- Viktoria Square
- Plateia Amerikis - suburban Athens
- Pavlou Mela Square Plateia Pavlou Mela - Axioupoli
- Central Square Kentriki Plateia - Didymoteicho
- Egon Square - Edessa
- Eleftherias Square - Feres
- Central Square Kentriki Plateia - Filiatra
- Central Square Kentriki Plateia - Fyli
- Agia Triada Square - Glyka Nera
- Marathonas Square - Grammatiko
- Bakogiannis Square - Heraklia
- Daskalogiannis Square Plateia Daskalogianni (named after Daskalogiannis) - Heraklio
- Karaiskaki Square - Ilioupoli
- Davaki Square Plateia Davaki - Kallithea, SW of Athens
- Agoras Square (meaning Market Square) Plateia Agoras - Kilkis
- Vizyinou Square - Komotini
- Nikis Square - Plateia Nikis - Kozani
- Lassani Sqare - Plateia Lassani - Kozani
- Elefterias Square - Plateia Elefterias - Katerini
- Agiou Dimitriou Square - Lechaina
- Christos Elkomenos Square - Monemvasia
- Sapphous Square - Mytilene
- Plateia Syntagmatos and Trion Navarchon Square - Nafplio
- Patras:
- Agia Sofia Square (in the Agia Sofia neighbourhood)
- Georgiou I Square (Dimokratias)
- Marouda Square - a square featuring the statue of Konstantinos Giannias
- Olga Square Plateia Olgas(Ethnikis Antistasis)
- Pyrosvesteio Square (in the Pyrosvesteio neighborhood)
- A square in the Agios Andreas neighborhood by Trion Navarcheion Street
- A square in the Agios Dionyssios neighborhood
- A square by Agiou Nikolaou Street near the Port of Patras
- A square at the east end of Dimitri Gounari Street near the Drosia neighbourhood
- A square in the Tsivdi neighborhood
- A square on Akrotiriou Street by Damaskou
- A square by Akrotiriou Street near Evvoias Street
- A square on Georgiou Olympou Street
- Two squares on Lontou Street?
- Ypsila Alonia Square Plateia Ypsila Alonia - all in Patras
- Korai Square Plateia Korai - Piraeus
- Eleftherias Square - Rhodes
- Eleftherias Square - Servia
- Agias Mimas Square - Spetses
- Aristotelous Square - Thessaloniki
- Aristotelous Square - Thrakomakedones
- Kennedy Square, and two others - Tripoli
- Iroon Square (Plateia Iroon) - Vrilissia
- Riga Fereou Square - Volos
