Drosia - History

History

Drosia was first known and founded only during the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922, formerly mainly composed of farmlands. Its first inhabitants were from Pontus and Asia Minor, and many of them could not head to Athens and Piraeus. The area was first named Rodopoli (Ροδόπολις, then as Rodopolis) in 1926 and was part of the community of Stamata, and the area of the settlement bordered with the authentic Bogiati (Μπογιάτι), which is now Anixi, and Neo Bogiati (Νέο Μπογιάτι), which is now Agios Stefanos. One neighbouring settlement of Stamata was the ball which adopted the name of the ancient city Rodopolis, the modern Drosia; a couple of years later, it adopted the name Rossochori or Roso(c)hori (Ρωσσοχώρι). The name was in use until 1952, when it the city was recreated according to a triangular plan, and was renamed as the present Drosia.

Until the 1960s and the 1970s, farmlands covered the western part of Drosia. Most of the population is now urban; until the 1960s and the 1970s it was primarily rural. Luxury villas and apartment complexes now characterize most of the urban development in Drosia, so that forested areas are dwindling. Housing construction in the 1980s and the 1990s reached up to the foot of the Penteli mountain, and continues to this day.