Kaisariani

Kaisariani is a suburb and a municipality within the eastern a part of the Athens agglomeration in Greece. The metropolis changed into founded in 1922 as a refugee camp for refugees pushed from Asia Minor, maximum of whom coming from Smyrna. Formerly part of the city of Athens, Kaisariani become created as a municipality in 1933. The call turned into derived from Caesarea, the historic capital metropolis of Cappadocia, Asia Minor now Kayseri, Turkey.

The Kaisariani rifle range is excellent as the site of the execution of two hundred communists on 1 May 1944 by way of the Nazi occupiers as a revenge for the death of German fashionable Franz Krech, who had been killed in a guerrilla ambush near Molaoi some days earlier than. In the early hours of June 17, 1944, 10 guys of the United Panhellenic Organization of Youth and guerillas of the National Liberation Front were killed, when trapped by means of the Nazi forces on the Monastery of Kaisariani, where they had been hiding. Kaisariani has its own Greek A2 League basketball group, named Near East Kaisariani, which become founded in 1927. The group plays in the Near East Indoor Arena. You can come to visit this place.