Municipal unit Nea Ionia
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Nea Ionia named, to honor unredeemed homeland, the refugee settlement that was built in Xirokampos and housed refugees from Asia Minor, who had taken refuge in Volos, μετά την καταστροφή του 22.

Brief Chronology

The Asia Minor refugees lived, to top, scenes, in the gym, the old barracks square Riga Fereou, in warehouses and schools. The accommodation conditions were inhumane and for this reason it was decided that they be given an area northwest of, small then, Volos city, beyond the brook Krafsidona, σε συνέχεια της οδού 2ας Νοεμβρίου.

The foundation stone was laid on 15 August 1923 και στις 28 December of the same year, became the official opening, The Prefect of Larissa. (Magnesia was the prefecture of Larissa). Attended by the Mayor Pagason Koukiadis, σύσσωμο το Δημοτικό Συμβούλιο και οι αρχές της πόλης.

The first houses were built were the "squares", name taken from the order and not their shape. The squares were 776 storey houses. Between 1925 και 1929 built 356 "Concrete" homes, 104 "Tzamaliotika", 323 "German" and 300 "Stone", with large-always- delay, λόγω έλλειψης πιστώσεων.

The first houses of the settlement, well before- well completed, occupied in 13 Juland by weary from illness, such as typhus fever, πρόσφυγες.

Nea Ionia census is done 1928 as a district of Volos, with 6128 residents, who had come from the coast of Asia Minor, Thrace and Pontus. Has inaugurated, from May 1927, a little, then, church, Evanyelistria and, left and right of, Work for prosfygopaida, δύο δημοτικά σχολεία.

Το 1924 refugees create the football team "Refugee" which, next year, renamed "Victory". The win marked the performance of, not only football in the region and of the National League where he excelled, κυρίως στη δεκαετία του 60.

In May 1931, to boost the morale of the refugees, visits the "settlement" Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos. Οι εφημερίδες της εποχής γράφουν για “ αναπτέρωση των ελπίδων”.

On 26 September 1946, the "refugee settlement" detached from the Municipality Pagason and is recognized as a separate community. However, not enough time to work on as well as Community 29 May 1947, αναγνωρίζεται ως “Δήμος Νέας Ιωνίας”.

First mayor was Evangelos KARAMPATZAKI (’47-’49) and follow the Apostle fireball (’49-’50).

The year of creation, The new municipality has 13706 residents who, and until then lived the dream of returning to their ancestral homes, begin to accept their condition, as a permanent. Besides, appears the second generation, that can be raised with the stories and songs for the distant homeland, but faces the harsh, μετακατοχική και μετεμφυλιακή πραγματικότητα της Ελλάδας κι ελπίζει να ξεπεράσει το ζοφερό “εδώ και τώρα”.

The inhabitants of Nea Ionia, diligent and stubborn, live their families dealing with the petty- mainly itinerant- transport and fishing. The "dealers" who roamed, during the interwar period, neighborhoods, with studs and donkeys, acquired slowly their own shops, mainly, Street Chalcedon, the "Wide", the big road that is an extension to 2 November but in other neighborhoods, even on the main streets of Volos. Others, fished by small boats and boats in Pagassitikos, while the muleteers hauling goods stores Volos, από τη λαχαναγορά τα αποικιακά ή τα ψαράδικα.

In "Loose" were, from the early years, πολλά καφενεία στα οποία συγκεντρώνονταν οι νοσταλγοί της μακρινής πατρίδας και θυμούνταν ιστορίες παλιές και τραγούδια του τόπου τους.

All of these, the kaiktsides and muleteers, helped build the new Annunciation, it 1966, carrying stones from the nearby quarries. The building was made of all workmen of Nea Ionia. Ήταν μια ανταπόδοση στην Παναγιά που έσωσε τη ζωή των γονιών τους και τους οδήγησε σε τόπο ασφαλή και φιλόξενο.

Το 1972, annexed to the municipality of Nea Ionia and the Communities Fytokou Melissiatika. Το 1998, with Kapodistrias plan, annexed and the Community incisive(Kapourna), Homeric Kapraina, πατρίδα του Οσιομάρτυρα Γεδεών -του δια Χριστόν σαλού-.

The city's population, to Census 2001, reaches 36000 κατοίκους.