Giannitsa
Giannitsa is the largest city of the prefecture of Pella with 31,442 inhabitants (census 2001). Located on the historic Via Egnatia in the center of Macedonia, at an altitude of 40 meters, between the mountain and Paiko Giannitsa Plain, north of the drained lake Giannitsa.
Despite the close proximity to Thessaloniki (48 HM), the city has managed to develop its own independent and evolve as the most important economic, commercial and industrial center of the prefecture of Pella. The demographic composition of the city of Giannitsa is a human mosaic.
The 1924-1925 departed for Turkey Turks who were left with the Slav-speaking exarchikos withdrawn in Bulgaria. In the same period syntelesthike establishment in town and villages, the Greeks from Thrace and Eastern Rumelia by the Sea and the Caucasus. The population of the city and the region is now clearly Giannitsa Greek and the city is evolving spiritually and culturally, along with economic progress.











































