Nea Ionia is a city and a former municipality

Communities and Municipalities of Greece

For the new municipalities of Greece see the Kallikratis ProgrammeThe municipalities and communities of Greece are one of several levels of government within the organizational structure of that country. Thirteen regions called peripheries form the largest unit of government beneath the State. ...

 in Magnesia, Thessaly

Thessaly

Thessaly is a traditional geographical region and an administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thessaly was known as Aeolia, and appears thus in Homer's Odyssey....

, Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Volos

Volos

Volos is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 326 km north of Athens and 215 km south of Thessaloniki...

, of which it is a municipal unit. It borders the city of Volos

Volos

Volos is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 326 km north of Athens and 215 km south of Thessaloniki...

. The population at the 2001 census was 31,929 inhabitants. Its land area is 63.314 km². The name "New Ionia

Ionia

Ionia is an ancient region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey, the region nearest İzmir, which was historically Smyrna. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements...

" refers to refugees from western Anatolia

Anatolia

Anatolia is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey...

 that settled in the area after the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)

Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)

The Greco–Turkish War of 1919–1922, known as the Western Front of the Turkish War of Independence in Turkey and the Asia Minor Campaign or the Asia Minor Catastrophe in Greece, was a series of military events occurring during the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire after World War I between May...

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Sites of interest

• Panthessaliko Stadium
  Panthessaliko Stadium
  Panthessaliko Stadium is a stadium located at Volos, Greece. The stadium was the site of football matches during the 2004 Summer Olympics. It was officially opened on July 30, 2004 and has a capacity of 22,700 seats, though only 21,100 seats were made publicly available for the Olympic matches...
  
  , Athens 2004 venue
• Museum of Greek Resistance, Christou Louli str. 33A

External links

• Official website
• Official website
• The founding of Nea Ionia, by Achilleas Adamantiades, PhD
• CERETETH
  CERETETH
  The CEnter for REsearch and TEchnology THessaly, or CE.RE.TE.TH , is a legal, non profit entity organized under the auspices of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology , of the Greek Ministry of Development. CE.RE.TE.TH was established in January 2006...
  
  , Center of Technology Thessaly