Paralia (Katerini)
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Paralia municipality Δημοτική Ενότητα Παραλίας (Παραλία) |
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| State : |
 Greece
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| Region : |
Central Macedonia
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| Regional District : | Pieria | ||
| Municipality : | Katerini | ||
| Geographic coordinates : | 40 ° 16 ' N , 22 ° 36' E | ||
| Height above d. M .: | 14 m | ||
| Area : | 24.344 km² | ||
| Residents : | 6,803 (2011) | ||
| Population density : | 279.5 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Code No .: | 110104 | ||
| Structure: |
2 city districts 1 local community |
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| Located in the municipality of Katerini and in the Pieria regional unit | |||
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Paralia ( Greek Παραλία ( f. Sg. )) Is a small town on the Thermaic Gulf about 8 km west of Katerini in the Greek region of Central Macedonia .
The place was founded in 1923 by refugees from Kios as the Vromeróskala (Βρωμερόσκαλα) after the population exchange agreed in the Treaty of Lausanne . It was renamed Paralia in 1950. Paralia became an independent rural community (kinotita) in 1966 when it was spun off from the neighboring town of Kallithea, and in 1997 when Kallithea and Peristasi were incorporated into the municipality (dimos). With the administrative reform in 2010 Paralia was incorporated into the city of Katerini , where it has since formed a district with three localities.
The place Paralia itself offers no sights apart from the centrally located church Agia Fotini (Αγία Φωτεινή) directly on the sea and the small harbor at the southern end of the place: the beach on the Thermaic Gulf is very beautiful. The place has artificially 'grown' and offers numerous tourists a large number of taverns, bars and discos, especially in the high season. However, one should not expect originally Greek life here.
In the summer months there is a bus between Paralia and Katerini every 30 minutes, but it leaves in the center of Katerini and not at the bus station.
economy
For a long time, the rather small town was largely shaped by the fur shops from the furrier town of Kastoria , Paralia, “a seaside resort with more fur shops than ice cream parlors”, just under 120 kilometers away . Even after the year 2000, the Castorian merchants maintained around 120 branches here. According to one of the owners, Stergios Papagiannis, 80 percent of his customers were Russians: “Between June and August the tourists come here to relax for a few weeks and try on a few furs and choose something, then in In August and September they come for a few days with the intention of buying ”. On Niki Street, the two-kilometer “fur road” leading through Paralia to the beach, you could only find fur shops.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ National Statistical Service of Greece (ΕΣΥΕ) according to 2001 census , p. 116 (PDF, 793 kB)
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Γραφείο Πιερία, Δ. Λιθοξόου - Εγκατάσταση προσφύγων - Γραφείο Πιερίας ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2012 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. (Greek)
- ↑ Μετονομασίες των Οικισμών της Ελλάδας (Greek)
- ↑ Η ιστορία του Δ.Δ. Παραλίας, Δήμος Παραλίας ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Greek)
- ↑ Without mentioning the author: Paralia. A Seaside Resort Packed with Fur Stores . In: Furbusiness , Copenhagen Fur Center (ed.), September 2003, pp. 46–49 (English)
