Eleftherio-Kordelio ( ) is a
Borough of Thessaloniki
. It was founded in 1924 by Greek refugees from
the town of Kordelio on the west coast of Asia Minor
(now Turkey
).
Eleftherio-Kordelio covers an area of 3,75 km² with around
21.630 inhabitants as of 2001. It's the stronghold of the
nationalist
LAOS Party that
reached 10.25% of the municipal votes in the
2004 European Elections. The culture
of the municipality has been influenced by the
Sarakatsani, a tribe of Greek nomads that lived
in several rural parts of the southern
Balkans, who came to Eleftherio-Kordelio in the
1960s.
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