Nikaia

Nikaia is a suburb within the southwestern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. Since the 2011 neighborhood government reform it's miles a part of the municipality Nikaia-Agios Ioannis Rentis, of which it's far the seat and a municipal unit. Nikaia, like many different places round Greece, owes its population eruption to Greek refugees who left the Asia Minor coast after the 1922 warfare ended. It became a part of the municipality of Piraeus till 1934, whilst it have become a separate municipality, then nevertheless under the call Nea Kokkinia.

It become renamed to Nikaia in 1940. The eighth International Tournament of Nikaia, a chess tournament, took place between August 19 and 27, 2000. The Greek Weightlifting Grand Prix befell in Nikaia on December 9 and 10, 2003. Nikaia has four recreation clubs with critical history. These are Proodeftiki with a high-quality a success records inside the football, Ionikos Nikaias with a hit departments within the soccer Ionikos Nikaias F. C. and basketball Ionikos Nikaias B.C., A. E. Nikaias and Aris Nikaias.