Giannitsa

Giannitsa is the largest town in the regional unit of Pella and the capital of the Pella municipality, in the region of Central Macedonia in northern Greece. The municipal unit Giannitsa has an area of 208.105 km2. Its population is 31,983 human beings 2011 census. It includes a few outlying villages Mesiano, Melissi, Pentaplatanos, Archontiko, Ampelies and Damiano. The municipality Pella as a whole includes many villages and has 63,122 inhabitants.

The city is located inside the middle of Macedonia among Mount Paiko and the plain of Giannitsa, and is the economic, industrial and commercial center of the Pella regional unit. European route E86 runs along the south of the town. The attention of the social life of the metropolis is on the significant pedestrian avenue, where human beings acquire to consume and drink or to take a stroll. Giannitsa was one of the first towns that based Open Theatre 3000 seats and became an institution for cultural events and large names in theater and music, every year, the ultimate month of summer time giving a culture pageant character.

In the area of "Old Market", at the southern hill of the town, there has been an Early Neolithic agreement past due seventh to early sixth millennium BC. Giannitsa become also inhabited via the Bronze and Iron Ages. Incidental findings, together with coins, inscriptions, and sculptures suggest that the place changed into inhabited at some stage in the Hellenistic duration 323-30BC. In historical instances, the location changed into referred to as Bottiaea.