Examili

Examili is a Greek village in the Thessaloniki area. The original Examili settlement was located at the beginning of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Its name was taken from its geographical position being 6 km between the two peninsula coasts. Examili developed into a large Greek city with a fortified wall protecting the Gallipoli Peninsula from land. Since Turkish people occupation, the original settlement has been destroyed and is now a site of a Turkish army base being close to the existing Turkish town of Korukoy. Following the Turkish war, many Greeks did not survive the exodus from the Gallipoli Peninsula, however hundreds of families from Examili settled in Galatades, Northern Greece in 1921. The area being low lying was marshy and...