These are the areas of Athens that have changed names over the years – Makeleio.gr
The changes in Athens during its modern history are many. Together with the capital, the neighbourhoods, the people and well-known parts of the city change.
From these conversions the names from the areas of Athens could not be missing after various events, historical and other persons. For example, which area was Koukouvaunes and which was Kakosalesi? Let’s go see…
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center – Paleo FaliroVourlopotamos: It is the current Amphitheatre, of Paleo Faliro, which used to take its name from the stream that ran through it. It kept this name until 1960.
Kakosalesi: “I’m not going back to my home in Kakosales” sang Yiannis Miliokas when Avlona was still called by its old residents by the name it had until 1927 – and which meant “bad passage”, because it was a den of thieves . there it made the passage of the Ottomans difficult.
Levi: One of the most unknown old toponyms of Athens. The Hebrew Levi later became a surname. Which one was it? Dimitris Levis was the last owner of the farmhouse in Eleonas, which gave its name to the neighborhood around it.
Kotsikadika: At the end of the 19th century, when Dexamenis Square was still being planned, Kolonaki was called Kotsikadika. North of the square there are nothing but shepherds’ huts. Their kid goats, in fact, ate – literally – the first tree-planting attempt of Lycabettus.
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Hellenic – Attic
Hellinikon was called Loimiko, when it changed its name at the beginning of the 20th century
Limiko: It is Greek until the beginning of the 20th century. If you haven’t guessed, the name comes from a purgatory that existed in the area.
Koukouvaunes: This was the name of today’s Metamorfosi, before the frenzy to abolish Arvanite toponyms “struck” Attica, and they became Liosia Ilion, Hasia Fili, Menidi Acharnes and Liopesi Peania.
Magoufana: It is considered, therefore, that the name Magoufana has its etymological roots from the corruption of the name of the Byzantine family of Magafa. It changed its name to Pefki by decree published in the Government Gazette in 1960.