Prosfygika Προσφυγικά
Prefecture Prefectures of Greece During the first administrative division of independent Greece in 1833–1836 and then again from 1845 until their abolition with the Kallikratis reform in 2010, the prefectures were the country's main administrative unit... :	Achaia
Province Provinces of Greece The provinces of Greece were sub-divisions of some the country's prefectures. From 1887, the provinces were abolished as actual administrative units, but were retained for some state services, especially finance services and education, as well as for electoral purposes... :	Patras
City:	Patras Patras Patras , ) is Greece's third largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens...
Population: (2001) Total Density Rank	about 5,000 to 6,000 -/km²
Population percentage (2005):	about 4 to 5%
Area/distance code:	11-0030-2610

Prosfygika or Prosfigika (Greek: Προσφυγικά) is a neighbourhood in the southern Greek city of Patras

Patras

Patras , ) is Greece's third largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens...

. It was founded in 1922 as refugees from Asia Minor

Asia Minor

Asia Minor is a geographical location at the westernmost protrusion of Asia, also called Anatolia, and corresponds to the western two thirds of the Asian part of Turkey...

 arrived in the city during the Greco-Turkish War.

It brought in 6 to 7,000 refugees. In the beginning, it built several homes that had a school, union, etc. Later, it built their first refugee houses in the present-day area in that time were made up of straws and olive groves. The first inhabitants were from the area and many were small with two bedrooms. All of them had a balcony for every housing square.

For many years, it had a largely poor, still today, it is still a poor community. In 1925 it had several clubs founded by the refugees and they are Olympiakos

Olympiakos Patras

APS Olympiacos Patras is an athletic club in Patras. The team plays with the EPS Achaias and the EPO number 1788.-Field:...

, Thyella, Aris, Apollon

Apollon Patras

A.S. Apollon Patras is a sporting club that includes basketball, football, volleyball and ping pong.-History:...

, AEK Patras and Patraikos. In 1925, it constructed an arena for Olympiakos in today's Prosfygika Field which is one of the oldest fields in Greece. The residents work as wirkers and it has cafeterias and shops named after the older areas of Byzantine (now Istanbul) and the former Aigli.

Other

Prosfygika has a few schools, a lyceum (secondary school), a few gymnasia (high school) churches and more squares (plateies

Plateia

Plateia or platia 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...

).