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Kalamaria is a municipality Borough of the Thessaloniki Urban Area, positioned about 7 kilometres 4 miles southeast of downtown Thessaloniki. It is the second one biggest municipality with a population of 91,279 as of 2011 of the Thessaloniki Urban Area in addition to one in all the most important in Greece, with a population growth of 13% for the reason that 1991 census. The vicinity become first settled by means of human beings in prehistoric times, and stays from that settlement were determined across the Karabournaki cape.
The call Kalamaria changed into first used in 1083 to denote the place southeast of Thessaloniki, including but not limited to the place of the prevailing-day municipality. During the Byzantine and the Ottoman durations, the place turned into mostly uninhabited, besides for some fishing inns. The first settlement changed into created within the early Twenties to residence refugees from the Greek diaspora in Georgia and Asia Minor, who fled or had been forcibly despatched to Greece because of the Greco-Turkish War.
As many as a hundred,000 refugees relocated to Thessaloniki, broadly speaking to the town's suburbs. Refugees of Pontic descent in particular relocated in Kalamaria. Families homeless following the Campbell pogrom Campbell turned into located in nowadays Kalamaria of 1931. Photo taken somewhere close to Aristotelous street.
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