As part of my planned rewrite of a number of National Road articles on Wikipedia, such as this one for the EO51, I have been looking up the list of National Roads as they were in 1955, and one entry for the old EO95 states “Αεροδρόμιον – Χωρίον Ἂρης” (Aerodromio – Chorion Aris).
Which airport or airfield was the decree referring to? I can’t seem to find a place called Chorion Aris that is near an airport/airfield.
I’m not sure either, but searching for “Άρης” or “Άρις” on EETAA website (which shows Greek settlements based on their official name, I’ve found Aris in Messenia which has airfield nearby in Triodos village and a bit further the airport of Kalamata. I don’t know though if any of those two airfields existed back then, I haven’t searched that yet.
The other “Aris” village I found was in Corinthia, but that doesn’t have any airfield nearby.
Btw, that EO51 article you mention, seems to have been edited few hours ago by Minoa. Don’t tell me you are Minoa, else that would be a wild coincidence 
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Basically, what happened was I had to fix after a changeset and a Wikipedia article that both claimed that the EO51 went to Ormenio, when in reality Ministerial Decision Γ25871/1963 (ΦΕΚ B 319/23.07.1963) has the EO51 turn off at Kastanies towards Edirne in Turkey.
Kastanies–Ormenio is basically the E85 with no known national number (that’s used in practice) … unless the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transportation wants to make up one for me, which must be published on ΦΕΚ B before we take it seriously.
The Corinthian Aris could be connected to Lechaion. It would make more sense spelling wise, and as a distance substantial enough to establish a (short) national road. Aris in Messenia is way too close to the old Airfield in Triodos and the “new” one is also quite close and was under construction in 1955 anyways.
Hmm, it would make sense indeed, since I found out based on this article that the airport was built in 1934 for the then Hellenic Royal Airforce, meaning it would indeed had the importance even in 1955 when the national roads numbering was given.
And for the settlement, which based on EETAA is now part of Isthmia settlement, which I assume means Aris was near the water aswell, it would mean Aris had the importance of connecting the airport with the closest port towards Saronic gulf, which is why the national road numbering was given for that route. That’s all my assumption.
Hello, I am also stuck on what the last destination the EO40 refers to: it states Ἀερολ μὴν Θεσσαλονίκης, which might be the airport but I am not completely sure, and the terminal might have been somewhere else in 1955.
Αερολιμήν is indeed an old fashioned/official way of saying airport. Even today most airports are officialy an αερολιμένας, not an αεροδρόμιο. It’s a calque: Αερό- + λιμένας (air+port).
“Αερολιμένας” is also written on suburban trains of the route Piraeus-Airport.
Umm, I think we were referring to the EO40 from 1955, not 1963. Today it would be part of the EO67: the confusion was due to the lack of a dot after the first word in Ἀερολ μὴν Θεσσαλονίκης.
