Kallithea (Halkidiki)
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Kallithea (Chalkidikis) Καλλιθέα (Χαλκιδικής) (Τοπική Κοινότητα Καλλιθέας) |
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| Country |
 Greece
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| region | Central Macedonia | ||
| Regional district | Chalkidiki | ||
| local community | Kassandra | ||
| Parish | Kassandra | ||
| Geographic coordinates | 40 ° 4 ′ N , 23 ° 27 ′ E | ||
| Height above d. M. |
49 m below sea level coastline - average |
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| surface | 3.775 km² | ||
| Residents | 1217 (2011) | ||
| Population density | 400.3 inhabitants / km² | ||
| LAU-1 code no. | 640604 | ||
Kallithea ( Greek Καλλιθέα ( f. Sg. ); Literal translation: 'good view') is a town on the Greek peninsula of Chalkidiki . It consists of the actual place Kallithea (1,179 inhabitants) and the village Solina (38 inhabitants). Kallithea is located on the east coast of the Kassandra Peninsula between its northern and southern ends on Toroneos Bay. Kallithea is 3 km south of Afytos , 73 km as the crow flies (approx. 110 km by road) southeast of Thessaloniki and approx. 25 km southeast of Nea Moudania .
The area of today's Kallithea was settled by colonists from the island of Evia as early as the 8th century BC . However, it was not an independent city or town, but belonged to the neighboring village of Afytos. There was no settlement either in antiquity or in the subsequent period (in contrast to Afytos himself). In 1922, Greeks displaced from the settlement area in Asia Minor settled in Kallithea after the Greek defeat in the Greco-Turkish War .
Kallithea made its boom through tourism and traffic, especially in the 1970s. In the local area of Kallithea two large hotel complexes were built directly on the sea. In the 1990s, opposite these two hotels, a veritable entertainment mile developed on a very small scale with discos, restaurants and souvenir shops. With the construction of the ring road around Kassandra, Kallithea took another boom: the ring road of the east coast and the ring road of the west coast unite in the center of the village of Kallithea.
An ancient sight in Kallithea is the seaside Temple of Ammon Zeus. Archaeological finds from this temple are in the Archaeological Museum of Polygyros .
The annual swim through the Toronian Gulf (24 km) begins in Kallithea and ends in Nikiti .
literature
- Klaus Bötig : Chalkidiki. Travel with insider tips. (With travel atlas) (= Marco Polo ). 7th, updated edition. MairDuMont, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 3-8297-0116-0 .
- Ioakim A. Papangelos: Chalkidiki. 3. Edition. Moorland, Ashbourne 1987, ISBN 0-86190-200-9 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information from the Greek Statistical Office based on the 2001 census ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Information from the Greek Ministry of Culture about the Archaeological Museum of Polygyros ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
