Egnatia, Thessaloniki

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Egnatia Εγνατία
Location
Egnatia, Thessaloniki
Coordinates	40°41′N 23°17′E / 40.683°N 23.283°E / 40.683; 23.283Coordinates: 40°41′N 23°17′E / 40.683°N 23.283°E / 40.683; 23.283
Government
Country:	Greece
Periphery:	Central Macedonia
Prefecture:	Thessaloniki
Population statistics (as of 2001[1])
City
- Population:	3,134
Other
Time zone:	EET/EEST (UTC+2/3)

Egnatia (Εγνατία) is a municipality in the Thessaloniki Prefecture, Greece. Population 3,134 (2001). The seat of the municipality is in Profitis. This small town has the distinction of supplying the name for the Via Egnatia, the new superhighway crossing the whole of Northern Greece from Igoumenitsa in the West to the Turkish border in the East.

[edit] References

1. ^ "Δείτε τη Διοικητική Διαίρεση" (in Greek). Hellenic Interior Ministry. www.ypes.gr. http://www.ypes.gr/UserFiles/f0ff9297-f516-40ff-a70e-eca84e2ec9b9/D_diairesi.xls. Retrieved 2009-09-09. 

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