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

Most notable squares/plateies (ordered by place)

Cyprus

• Eleftherias Square - Nicosia & Larnaca
• Troodos square - Troodos mountains; used as a point of reference for meteorological, (time) distance and altitude purposes.

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

See also

• List of city squares
• Market square
• Roman forum
• Town square

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