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{{Short description|Suburbs of the Thessaloniki Urban Area, Greece}}

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|elevation = 35Macedonia (Greece)|name=Macedonia}}|periph = Central MacedoniaThessaloniki (regional unit)>Thessaloniki|pop_municipality = 92248|area_municipality = 6.40|mayor = Chrysa ArapoglouMunicipality of Kalamaria, Municipal elections – October 2023, Ministry of Interior|party = |since = 2023|population_as_of = 2021|postal_code = 551 xx|area_code = +30231|licence = N|website = www.kalamaria.grweblink}}Kalamariá (, Port Side)WEB,weblink Municipality of Kalamaria, Ιστορία, History, el, 18 August 2018, is among the most densely populated suburbs in Thessaloniki,Kalamaria Population 2021, worldpopulationreview.com located about {{convert|7|km|0|abbr=off}} southeast of the downtown area, with a population of 92,248.

History

The area was first settled by humans in prehistoric times, and remains from that settlement have been found around the Mikro Emvolo cape.The name Kalamaria was first used in 1083 to denote the area southeast of Thessaloniki, including but not limited to the area of the present-day municipality. During the Byzantine and the Ottoman periods, the area was mostly uninhabited, except for a few fishing lodges.The first settlement was created in the early 1920s to house Asia Minor refugees from the Greek diaspora in Georgia and Asia Minor, who fled or were forcibly sent to Greece as a result of the Greco-Turkish War. As many as 100,000 refugees relocated to Thessaloniki, primarily to the city's suburbs. Refugees from Asia Minor and East Thrace mainly settled in Kalamaria.Iωάννου Γιώργος, Η πρωτεύουσα των προσφύγων, Κέδρος, Αθήνα 1984File:Pogrom-salonika.jpg|thumb|Families homeless following the Campbell leftIn 1931, an antisemitic riot, led by National Union of Greece, took place in Camp Campbell, located in nowadays Kalamaria, where a Jewish neighborhood was completely burned, leaving 500 families homeless and one Jewish resident dead.See weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080315022321weblink">legend of the picture as published by the United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumAristotle A. Kallis, The Jewish Community of Salonica Under Siege: The Antisemitic Violence of the Summer of 1931, Oxford University Press, 2006Kalamaria has seen substantial recent growth as part of a population shift from rural and urban areas to suburban areas, particularly to those east of Thessaloniki. Between the 1981 and 2001 censuses, the population of Kalamaria grew by about 36,000 (or 69%). Up until 1943 Kalamaria was part of the Municipality of Thessaloniki. On 1 January 1943 it became an independent administrative unit.Kalamaria had a population of 14,000 residents as recorded by an inventory in 1947, but this has considerably increased, as shown by the Greek census of 2001 where Kalamaria had a total of 87,255 residents. Kalamaria has the second highest population in the Council of the Town Planning Group of Thessaloniki but also of Northern Greece and ninth in all of Greece.Though it was originally separated from the main City of Thessaloniki, the municipality has grown so much in the post-war period that the older physical boundaries are virtually non-existent. Nowadays, the border between the two municipalities exists purely for administrative purposes.Traditionally the areas of Krini and Aretsou had been used as beaches and places for summer baths for the citizens of Thessaloniki, after WWII until the 1980s. The pollution of the Thermaic Gulf made this practice impossible since then.Κάποτε στο ΚαραμπουρνάκιThe total area of the Municipality of Kalamaria covers {{convert|6.401|km2|2|abbr=off}}.WEB,weblink National Statistical Service of Greece, Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation), el, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150921212047weblink">weblink 2015-09-21, About two thirds of the perimeter are {{convert|6.5|km|1|abbr=off}} of coastline.The municipality is separated into 10 geographical districts, which have been given names reminiscent of the refugees' former homelands.

• Nea Krini (Νέα Κρήνη)
• Karabournaki (Καραμπουρνάκι)
• Nea Touzla (Νέα Τούζλα)
• Kouri (Κουρί)
• Katirli (Κατιρλί)
• Aretsou (Αρετσού)
• Agios Ioannis (Άγιος Ιωάννης)
• Vyzantio (Βυζάντιο)
• Agios Panteleimonas (Άγιος Παντελεήμoνας)
• Navarchos Votsis (Ναύαρχος Βότσης, "Admiral Votsis")
• Finikas (Fenekas in local language) (Φοίνικας)

File:ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ-ΚΑΛΑΜΑΡΙΑ- ΤΟ ΠΑΛΑΤΑΚΙ - panoramio (7).jpg|thumb|View of the Palataki ]]

Historical population{| classwikitable

! Year !! Population | 51,676 | 80,698 | 87,255 | 91,279 | 92,248

Sporting teams

Kalamaria has in total 14 sporting teams including Apollon Kalamarias.File:Apollon Kalamarias' Stadium, Hilis str. - panoramio.jpg|thumb|209x209px

Climate

Kalamaria, like much of Thessaloniki metropolitan area lies in a transitional climate zone between semi-arid and temperate climates, classifying as cold semi-arid climate (BSk) according to Köppen climate classification. Kalamaria records 408 mm annual precipitation, evenly spread throughout the year with a slight decrease during the summer months, while the average annual temperature is 17.1 °C. Temperatures in the warmest months rarely (if ever) exceed 40 °C while frost may occur several days per year during the winter months. Thunderstorms are more common during the warmer half of the year. Snowfall is not very common though it occurs almost annually, but it usually does not cause heavy disruption to daily life.{{Weather box| width = 100%| location = Kalamaria 2009–2019| metric first = yes| single line = yes| Jan high C = 9.7| Feb high C = 12.6| Mar high C = 15.5| Apr high C = 20.4| May high C = 25.7| Jun high C = 30.2| Jul high C = 32.3| Aug high C = 32.3| Sep high C = 27.7| Oct high C = 21.9| Nov high C = 16.9| Dec high C = 11.3| Jan mean C = 6.5| Feb mean C = 9.1| Mar mean C = 11.3| Apr mean C = 15.4| May mean C = 20.4| Jun mean C = 24.9| Jul mean C = 27.2| Aug mean C = 27.3| Sep mean C = 23.0| Oct mean C = 17.8| Nov mean C = 13.6| Dec mean C = 8.1| year high C = | Jan low C = 3.8| Feb low C = 6.2| Mar low C = 8.0| Apr low C = 11.3| May low C = 16.1| Jun low C = 20.5| Jul low C = 22.8| Aug low C = 22.9| Sep low C = 19.1| Oct low C = 14.6| Nov low C = 11.0| Dec low C = 5.3| year low C = | precipitation colour = green| Jan precipitation mm = 30| Feb precipitation mm = 39| Mar precipitation mm = 49| Apr precipitation mm = 28| May precipitation mm = 32| Jun precipitation mm = 36| Jul precipitation mm = 32| Aug precipitation mm = 17| Sep precipitation mm = 37| Oct precipitation mm = 33| Nov precipitation mm = 38National Observatory of AthensHTTPS://WWW.METEO.GR/CLIMATE/TITLE= CLIMATENATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS>LANGUAGE = EL, }}

Transportation

(File:Nea Krini2.JPG|thumb|Nea Krini seafront|222x222px)File:Aretsou.jpg|thumb|220px|Marina of AretsouAretsouThe main roads that feed into the municipality are those of Konstantinos Karamanlis Avenue (formerly Nea Egnatia) to the east (which links with the A25 (the Thessaloniki-Chalkidiki motorway)), Taki Ekonomidi Avenue (which links the popular district of Nea Krini with Thessaloniki's city center), Megalou Alexandrou Avenue - the biggest avenue in Thessaloniki and the EO16 which provides the main access from Kalamaria to the airport and the outer south-eastern suburbs of Thessaloniki. Other main road links exist with Thermi, while the southeast end of the Thessaloniki ring road (which bypasses the Thessaloniki Urban Area) lies to the southeast of Kalamaria.

Streets

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• Chilis Street
• Plastira Street
• Passalidi Street
• Sofouli Street
• Ethnikis Antistaseos Street
• Kerasountos Street
• Mitropolitou Kallidou Street
• Komninon Street
• Karamanli Street
• Venizelou Street
• Korai Street

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• Vrioulon Street
• Sarafi Street
• Smirnis Street
• Papagou Street
• Fleming Street
• Taki Ikonomidi Street
• Panormou Street
• Andrea Papandreou Street
• Propontidos Street
• Kountourioti Street

{{col-end}}File:Thessaloniki from Karabournaki.jpg|thumb|View of downtown Thessaloniki from Karabournaki. The Thessaloniki Concert HallThessaloniki Concert Hall

International relations

{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Greece}}

Twin towns — Sister cities

Kalamaria is twinned with:

• {{flagicon|ALB}} Saranda, Albania
• {{flagicon|BUL}} Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria
• {{flagicon|CYP}} Paphos, Cyprus
• File:British military cemetery, Mikra.jpg|thumb|Mikra British CemeteryMikra British Cemetery{{flagicon|USA}} Clearwater, Florida, United States
• {{flagicon|SVK}} Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia

Partnerships

In addition to this, Kalamaria is partnered with:

• {{flagicon|SWE}} Solna, SwedenWEB,weblink Networks, town twinning and partnerships, 2013-08-04, City of Solna,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130804213519weblink">weblink 2013-08-04, dead,
• {{flagicon|HUN}} Fonyód, Hungary

See also

• List of settlements in the Thessaloniki regional unit

References

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External links

{{Commons category|Kalamaria}}

• Kalamaria Municipality home page (Greek/English)
• weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130806083048weblink">Kalamaria - culture home page (Greek)
• Kalamaria's History (Greek)
• About Kalamaria (Greek)

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