Diavata | |
Name Local: | Διαβατά |
Type: | community |
Periph: | Central Macedonia |
Periphunit: | Thessaloniki |
Municipality: | Delta |
Municunit: | Echedoros |
Population: | 11876 |
Area: | 8.967 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Coordinates: | 40.6883°N 73.5°W |
Postal Code: | 570 08 |
Area Code: | +30-231 |
Licence: | NA to NX |
Elevation: | 20 |
Diavata (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Διαβατά) is a town in Central Macedonia Greece. A community of the Delta municipality.[1] Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of Echedoros, of which it was a municipal district.[1] The community of Diavata covers an area of 8.967sqkm.[2] Many inhabitants are descendants from the Armenian majority town of Eğin in Anatolia who survived the Armenian genocide and were resettled in the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey.