Calamaria

Municipality of Kalamaria Δήμος Καλαμαριάς
Basic data
State :	Greece
Region :	Central Macedonia
Regional District :	Thessałoniki
Geographic coordinates :	40 ° 35 '  N , 22 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 40 ° 35 '  N , 22 ° 57'  E
Area :	6.401 km²
Residents :	91,279 (2011)
Population density :	14,260.1 inhabitants / km²
Community logo:
Seat:	Calamaria
LAU-1 code no .:	0707
Districts :	no
Local self-government :	no
Website:	www.kalamaria.gr
Location in the Central Macedonia region

Kalamaria ( Greek Καλαμαριά ( f. Sg. )) Is de facto a district of Thessaloniki , but de jure forms an independent municipality in the Central Macedonia region . With around 91,000 inhabitants, it is the second largest municipality in Macedonia.

location

Kalamaria is located around 7 km south of the city center of Thessaloniki on a promontory (Mikro Emvolo or Karabounaki) in the Thermaic Gulf or its northeastern branch, the Gulf of Thessaloniki.

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  Aerial view of the east of Thessaloniki with Kalamaria in the foreground

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  Street in Kalamaria

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  Modern building in Kalamaria

history

The area has been inhabited since prehistoric times. This is where ancient Thermai, after which the bay is named, was located. The name Kalamaria is found for the area southeast of Thessaloníki for the first time in 1083. At the beginning of the 13th century, the Byzantine administrative unit Katepanikion Kalamaria comprises the settlement of the same name and the western part of the Chalkidiki peninsula along the coast of the Thermaic Gulf. The Katepanikion Kalamaria consisted mainly of land holdings from monasteries on the Athos peninsula.

Today's city has its origins in a founding in the 1920s and, like other suburbs of Thessaloníki, served the reception of Greek refugees from Turkey, whereby in Kalamaria mainly Greeks from the Black Sea coast settled. Kalamaria was part of the municipality of Thessaloníki until 1943 and only received its administrative independence in that year.

Recently, calamaria has seen significant population growth. In 1981 only 51,676 people lived here. The city consists of 10 districts or districts.

Sports

Kalamaria is the hometown of the Apollon football club .

Personalities

In Kalamaria lived or were born:

• Vassilis Triandafyllidis (1940–2018), comedian (Harry Klynn), former president of Apollon Kalamarias
• Anestis Soumelides (* 1930), former athlete, trainer of the water sports department of Apollon Kalamarias
• Christodoulos Ekonomidis , Mayor of Kalamaria

Twin cities

Kalamaria is twin town of

• Saranda , Albania
• Dimitrovgrad , Bulgaria
• Paphos , Cyprus
• Clearwater , Florida

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results of the 2011 census at the National Statistical Service of Greece (ΕΛ.ΣΤΑΤ) ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Excel document, 2.6 MB)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Charalambos Bakirtzis: The Urban Continuity and Size of Late Byzantine Thessalonike. In: Alice-Mary Talbot (Ed.): Symposium on Late Byzantine Thessaloniki. (Dumbarton Oaks Symposium May 4-6, 2001) (= Dumbarton Oaks Studies. 57, ISSN  0070-7554 ). Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington DC 2004, pp. 36–64, p. 37, ( digitized version (PDF; 3.6 MB) ( memento of the original from February 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ).