Kalamaria

Kalamariá (Greek: Καλαμαριά) is a municipality (Borough) of the Thessaloniki Urban Area, located about 7 km southeast of downtown Thessaloniki. It is the second largest municipality (with a population of 87,255 as of 2001) of the Thessaloniki Urban Area as well as one of the largest in Greece, with a population increase of 8% since the 1991 census. The area was first settled by humans in prehistoric times, and remains from that settlement have been found around the Karabournaki 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...