Diavata

{{Infobox Greek Dimos

|name = Diavata

|name_local = Διαβατά

|type = community

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|map_caption =

| periph = Central Macedonia

| periphunit = Thessaloniki

|municipality = Delta

|municunit = Echedoros

|population = 11876

|area = 8.967

|population_as_of = 2021

|coordinates = {{coord|40|41.3|N|22|51.5|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|postal_code = 570 08

|area_code = +30-231

|licence = NA to NX

|image_skyline =

|caption_skyline =

|elevation = 20

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Diavata ({{langx|el|Διαβατά}}) is a town in Central Macedonia Greece. A community of the Delta municipality.{{Cite web|url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL81-32jgAMSfbnMRVjyfnPUeJInJ48_97uHrMts-zFzeyCiBSQOpYnT00MHhcXFRTsb2fGphpq4MKX2ZkaHobySNnvZCNHXvYVvlf80XevW0Q.|title=ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities|language=el|publisher=Government Gazette}} Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of Echedoros, of which it was a municipal district. The community of Diavata covers an area of {{convert|8.967|sqkm|abbr=on}}.{{cite web |url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |publisher=National Statistical Service of Greece |title=Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation) |language=el |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |archivedate=2015-09-21 }} 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.

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