Kokkari
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Local community Kokkari Τοπική Κοινότητα Κοκκαρίου (Κοκκάρι) |
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| Country |
 Greece
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| region | North Aegean | ||
| Regional district | Samos | ||
| local community | Anatoliki Samos | ||
| Parish | Vathy | ||
| status | Local community | ||
| Geographic coordinates | 37 ° 47 ' N , 26 ° 54' E | ||
| Height above d. M. |
5 m (average) |
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| surface | 11.85 km² | ||
| Residents | 1060 (2011) | ||
| LAU-1 code no. | 56010106 | ||
| Local division | 1 | ||
| Post Code | 83100 | ||
| Telephone code | 22730-9 | ||
Kokkari ( Greek Κοκκάρι ( n. Sg. )) Is a small tourist town on the north coast of the Greek island of Samos . The city of Samos is almost 10 km southeast, Vourliotes about 4 km west.
Kokkari was founded in the 19th century on the ruins of an older village by settlers from the neighboring village of Mytilinii . Kokkari means “little onion” in German and is a reference to the vegetables of the same name that were grown here in earlier times.
The most important source of income for Kokkari is tourism , which found its way into Kokkari in the early 1990s, followed by the oil power station of the state energy supplier DEI . The fishery , in which a large part of the inhabitants of Kokkari used to work, now only plays a subordinate role.
Near the fishing port is the village's landmark , the "Cavos", a large boulder . Kokkari has a small fishing port and three beaches: the city beach is called "Longbeach" and is located near the Cavos. The second is called "Lemonakia" (Greek: Limonen) and is around 1.5 kilometers west of Kokkari. The third is called "Tsamadou Beach" and is about 3 kilometers from Kokkari in the same direction, a little further away is "Tsambou Beach".
With the implementation of the municipality reform according to the Kapodistrias program in 1997, Kokkari was incorporated into the municipality of Vathy . After the merger of the former municipalities of the island after the administrative reform in 2010 to form the municipality of Samos ( Δήμος Σάμου Dímos Sámou ), the correction in 2019 in two municipalities means that the place belongs to the municipality of Anatoliki Samos .
- Population development of Kokkari
| 1913 | 1920 | 1928 | 1940 | 1951 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 |
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| 1514 | 1385 * | 1536 | 1423 | 1279 | 1070 | 849 | 965 | 894 | 973 | 1060 |
* including Paralia Kokkariou with 170 inhabitants
Web links
- Kokkari, Vathy Municipality (Greek)
- Kokkari on www.samosin.gr (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ National Statistical Service of Greece (ΕΣΥΕ) according to 2001 census , p. 116 (PDF, 793 kB)
- ↑ Results of the 2011 census, Greek Statistical Office (ΕΛ.ΣΤΑΤ) ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Excel document, 2.6 MB)
- ↑ Population of Kokkari 1913–2001, Greek Statistical Office ELSTAT, Digital Library (Greek)