Potokaki

Potokaki Ποτοκάκι
Basic data
Country	Greece
region	North Aegean
Regional district	Samos
local community	Anatoliki Samos
Parish	Pythagorio
Local community	Chora
Geographic coordinates	37 ° 41 ′  N , 26 ° 55 ′  E Coordinates: 37 ° 41 ′  N , 26 ° 55 ′  E
Residents	122 (2011)
LAU-1 code no.	5601041102
Post Code	83103
Telephone code	22730

Potokaki ( Greek Ποτοκάκι ( n. Sg. )) Is a coastal settlement in the south of the Greek island of Samos, characterized by tourism .

location

The former fishing village is located on the Bay of Tigani (Όρμος Τηγάνι) in the immediate vicinity of the airport a little more than two kilometers west of Pythagorio .

history

During the reign of the Polycrates , a secondary port of the ancient city of Samos was located at today's location.

On the map of Samos in Piri Reis's kitab-ı Bahriy navigator's book from 1525, an anchorage is marked at the point. At the time of the Principality of Samos in the 19th century, Potokaki was the port of Chora with some warehouses.

Until the second half of the 20th century, Potokaki was a fishing village with a few distilleries and soap factories. After Potokaki was officially recognized as a settlement by the then rural community of Chora (Κοινότητα Χώρας) in 1961 and the island's airport opened in 1963, a tourist offer increasingly developed in the town. Potokaki does not have a closed townscape and is characterized by small hotels, apartment complexes, taverns and night clubs. In the past few years Potokaki Beach has been awarded the Blue Flag several times.

Population development of Potokaki

Ludwig Ross mentions that the place was inhabited in 1841. The results of the Greek population censuses, for the first time from 1961 onwards, give population information on Potokaki.

year	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001	2011
Potokaki	062	019th	018th	033	049	122

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results of the 2011 census, Greek Statistical Office (ΕΛ.ΣΤΑΤ) ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Excel document, 2.6 MB)
2. ↑ "It was not until sunset that we anchored across the street from the Ampelos in Potokaki, as some magazines on the beach are called, on our right and almost in front of us the ruins of ancient Samos ..." Ludwig Ross: Travels on the Greek islands of the Aegean Sea . JG Gotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1843, p. 119 ( online ).
3. ↑ Ειρήνη Ψαρρή Δημητρίου: Τουριστικός οδηγός Σάμου . Ed .: Αλεξάνδρειο Τεχνολογικό Εκπαιδευτικό Ίδρυμα Θεσσαλονίκης - TEI Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki 2009, p. 86 ( online [PDF]). Online ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2017 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.  
4. ↑ Potokaki, Blue Flag ( Memento of the original from February 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. 
5. ^ Potokaki, Greek Travel Pages
6. ↑ Population of Potokaki 1961–2001, Greek Statistical Office ELSTAT, Digital Library (Greek)
7. ↑ L. Ross, p. 129 ( online )