Areas of Settlement
The core of the refugee population settled in Attica and Macedonia. The official refugee population per region in 1928 was as follows (number of refugees and percent of the refugee population):
- Macedonia: 638,253 52.2% (with 270,000 in Thessaloniki alone)
- Central Greece and Attica: 306,193 25.1%
- Thrace: 107,607 8.8%
- North Aegean Islands: 56,613 4.6%
- Thessaly: 34,659 2.8%
- Crete: 33,900 2.8%
- Peloponnese: 28,362 2.3%
- Epirus: 8,179 0.7%
- Cyclades: 4,782 0.4%
- Ionian Islands: 3,301 0.3%
- Total: 1,221,849 100%
Numerous suburbs, towns and villages were established to house the additional population of Greece, which rose by about 1/3 in just a few months. In addition, to this day every town in Greece has a quarter named Προσφυγικά, The Refugees' (quarter). These new settlements were usually named after the place of origin of their inhabitants:
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