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Paralia Katerinis
Paralia (, ''Paralía'', meaning "beach") is a tourist seaside settlement and a former municipality in the eastern part of the Pieria regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Katerini, of which it is a municipal unit. The seat of the municipality was in Kallithea. The 2021 census reported a population of 928 for the community of Paralia, and 6,228 for the municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 24.344 km2, the community 1.849 km2. Paralia Katerinis actually translated "Beach of Katerini" and is the closest beach to the capital city of Katerini. Historical data The settlement was founded by fishermen after 1922. Its inhabitants were refugees from Cius in Asia Minor. At first, they settled in Thessaloniki. Some of them left and went to Davlia where the inhabitants welcomed them. They made a living from agriculture and fruit farming. After living there for a while, they decided to leave, some to the north and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Macedonia
Central Macedonia ( ; , ) is one of the thirteen Regions of Greece, administrative regions of Greece, consisting the central part of the Geographic regions of Greece, geographical and historical region of Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia. With a population of almost 1.8 million, it is the second most populous region in Greece after Attica (region), Attica. Geography The region of Central Macedonia is situated in Northern Greece, bordering the Administrative regions of Greece, regions of Western Macedonia (west), Thessaly (south), Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (east), and bounded to the north at the international borders of Greece by the Republic of North Macedonia and Bulgaria. The southern part is coastal and is bathed by the Thermaic Gulf, Thermaic, Toronean Gulf, Toroneos, Singitic Gulf, Singitic and Strymonian Gulf, Strymonic gulfs. The largest city and capital of the region is Thessaloniki. Serres is the second most populous city, followed by Katerini, Veria and Giannitsa. Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (; ), also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece (with slightly over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area) and the capital city, capital of the geographic regions of Greece, geographic region of Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia, the administrative regions of Greece, administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace. It is also known in Greek as , literally "the co-capital", a reference to its historical status as the "co-reigning" city () of the Byzantine Empire alongside Constantinople. Thessaloniki is located on the Thermaic Gulf, at the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea. It is bounded on the west by the Axios Delta National Park, delta of the Axios. The Thessaloniki (municipality), municipality of Thessaloniki, the historical centre, had a population of 319,045 in 2021, while the Thessaloniki metropolitan are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Settlements In The Pieria Regional Unit
This is a list of settlements in the Pieria (regional unit), Pieria regional unit, Greece. * Agiannis, Pieria, Agiannis * Agia Varvara, Pieria, Agia Varvara * Agios Dimitrios, Pieria, Agios Dimitrios, Katerini * Agios Dimitrios, Dio-Olympos * Agios Spyridonas, Pieria, Agios Spyridonas * Aiginio * Alonia, Pieria, Alonia * Alyki, Pieria, Alyki * Andromachi * Ano Agios Ioannis * Ano Milia, Pieria, Ano Milia * Aronas * Dion, Pieria, Dion * Elafos, Pieria, Elafos * Elatochori * Exochi, Pieria, Exochi * Foteina * Fteri, Pieria, Fteri * Ganochora * Kallithea, Pieria, Kallithea * Kalyvia Varikou * Karitsa, Pieria, Karitsa * Karyes, Pieria, Karyes * Kastania, Pieria, Kastania * Katachas * Katalonia * Katerini * Kato Agios Ioannis * Kato Milia * Kitros * Kolindros * Kondariotissa * Korinos * Koukkos, Pieria, Koukkos * Lagorrachi * Leptokarya * Limenas Litochorou * Litochoro * Livadi, Pieria, Livadi * Lofos, Pieria, Lofos * Makrygialos, Pieria, Makrygialos * Megali Gefyra * Meliadi * Mesaia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hellenic Coast Guard
The Hellenic Coast Guard () is the national coast guard of Greece. Like many other coast guards, it is a paramilitary organization that can support the Hellenic Navy in wartime, but resides under separate civilian control in times of peace. The officers and the enlisted members of the Coast Guard are regarded as military personnel under Military's Penal Code. It was founded in 1919 by an Act of Parliament (Law No. 1753–1919) and the legal framework for its function was reformed in 1927. Its primary mission is the enforcement of Greek, European and International law in the maritime areas. Historically, it is very closely associated with the Greek shipping, Greek shipping industry; many Coast Guard officers retire early to find employment in Greek and international companies owned by Greek ship-owners. Role and responsibilities The main activities of the Hellenic Coast Guard are defined in the present legislation and specified within its institutional framework of operation. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piraeus–Platy Railway
The railway from Piraeus to Platy is an electrified double-track railway line that connects Athens to northern Greece and the rest of Europe. It constitutes the longest section of the mostly completed higher-speed rail line known as P.A.Th.E./P., which includes Greece's most important rail connection, that between Athens and Thessaloniki. Its northern end is the station of Platy, on the Thessaloniki–Bitola railway. In the south, it connects to the Athens Airport–Patras railway at the Acharnes Railway Center. The line passes through Thebes, Katerini and Larissa, and offers connections to several other cities (Chalcis, Lamia, Volos, Karditsa, Trikala) through branch lines. Course The southern terminus of the Piraeus–Platy railway is at the harbour of Piraeus, where connections with ferries to several Greek islands exist. From Piraeus station, the line runs northeast towards the centre of Athens, where it crosses the main Athens railway station, commonly known as ''La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A1 Motorway (Greece)
The A1 motorway, also known as the Aegean Motorway, (FEK AAP' 253/21.12.2015, pp. 2098–2099). and formerly the Patras–Athens–Thessaloniki–Evzonoi (P.A.Th.E.) motorway, is the 2nd longest motorway in Greece with a length of 557 km. It is the principal north–south road connection in Greece, connecting the country's capital Athens with the regions of Thessaly and Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia, as well as the country's second largest city, Thessaloniki. It starts from Neo Faliro in Attica (region), Attica and continues north to reach the Evzonoi border station, on the Greek border with North Macedonia. Today, the construction, operation and maintenance of the A1 motorway have been largely outsourced to private companies: Aftokinitodromos Aigaiou SA. (Kleidi, Imathia - Raches, Fthiotida), Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korinos
Korinos () is a town and a former municipality in Pieria regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Katerini, of which it is a municipal unit (Kallikratis Programme). The municipal unit has an area of 70.909 km2, the community 30.726 km2. Korinos has approximately 4,500 residents and it is located 5 km northeast of the city of Katerini (Κατερίνη), the capital of Pieria. The A1 motorway (Athens–Thessaloniki–Evzonoi) is situated to the west. Korinos is famous for its beaches -lying to its east- and hotels in the area, which make the village an ideal place for tourism. Additionally, Korinos has a public library since 2006, Municipal Library of Korinos, and a weather station provided by the National Observatory of Athens and supervised by Municipality of Katerini. Korinos became famous in Greece, after an economic scandal (during 2000) concerning the distribution of building grounds from Korinos' municipa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thermaic Gulf
The Thermaic Gulf (, ), also called the Gulf of Thessaloniki and the Macedonian Gulf, is a Gulf (geography), gulf constituting the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea. The city of Thessaloniki is at its northeastern tip, and it is bounded by Pieria (regional unit), Pieria Imathia and Larissa on the west and the Chalkidiki peninsula on the east, with Pallene, Chalcidice, Cape Kassandra at the southeasternmost corner. It is named after the ancient town of Therma, modern Thessaloniki. It is about long. By narrower definitions, the Thermaic Gulf is bounded on the west by the line from the mouth of the Axios River, Axios or Vardar to Cape Megalo Embolo, making it about long; while the smaller Gulf of Salonica is bounded by a line running from the mouth of the Gallikos (river), Gallikos to Mikro Emvolo.Malamut Elisabeth, Grélois Jean-Pierre, "Le port de Thessalonique (IVe-XVIe siècles)", ''Actes des congrès de la Société des historiens médiévistes de l'enseignement supérieur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asia Minor
Anatolia (), also known as Asia Minor, is a peninsula in West Asia that makes up the majority of the land area of Turkey. It is the westernmost protrusion of Asia and is geographically bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west, the Turkish Straits to the northwest, and the Black Sea to the north. The eastern and southeastern limits have been expanded either to the entirety of Asiatic Turkey or to an imprecise line from the Black Sea to the Gulf of Alexandretta. Topographically, the Sea of Marmara connects the Black Sea with the Aegean Sea through the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, and separates Anatolia from Thrace in Southeast Europe. During the Neolithic, Anatolia was an early centre for the development of farming after it originated in the adjacent Fertile Crescent. Beginning around 9,000 years ago, there was a major migration of Anatolian Neolithic Farmers into Neolithic Europe, Europe, with their descendants coming to dominate the continent a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieria (regional Unit)
Pieria () is one of the regional units of Greece located in the southern part of the Central Macedonia, Region of Central Macedonia, within the historical province of Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia. Its capital is the town of Katerini. The name Pieria originates from the ancient Pieres tribe. In Pieria, there are many sites of archeological interest, such as Archaeological Park of Dion, Dion, Pydna (Ancient Site), Pydna, Leivithra and Platamon Castle, Platamonas. Pieria contains Mount Pierus of Emathia, Pierus, from which Hermes takes flight in order to visit Calypso (mythology), Calypso, and is the home of Orpheus, the Muses, and contains the Pierian Spring. Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece and throne of the ancient Greek gods, is located in the southern part of Pieria. Other ancient cities included Leibethra and Pimpleia. Geography The Pieria regional unit is bordered by Imathia to the north, Kozani (regional unit), Kozani to the west, and to the south and west ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cius
Cius (; ''Kios''), later renamed Prusias on the Sea (; ) after king Prusias I of Bithynia, was an ancient Greek city bordering the Propontis (now known as the Sea of Marmara), in Bithynia and in Mysia (in modern northwestern Turkey), and had a long history, being mentioned by Herodotus, Xenophon, Aristotle, Strabo and Apollonius Rhodius. Geography Cius was strategically placed at the head of a gulf in the Propontis, called the gulf of Cius, or ''Cianus Sinus''. Herodotus calls it Cius of Mysia; and also Xenophon, from which it appears that Mysia, even in Xenophon's time, extended at least as far east as the head of the gulf of Cius. Pliny the Elder reports that Cius was a Milesian colony. It was at the foot of Mount Arganthonius, and there was a myth that Hylas, one of the companions of Heracles on the voyage to Colchis, was carried off by the nymphs when he went to get water here; and also that Cius, another companion of Heracles, on his return from Colchis, stayed here an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922
Events January * January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes. * January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann, the day after Éamon de Valera resigns. * January 11 – The first successful insulin treatment of diabetes is made, by Frederick Banting in Toronto. * January 15 – Michael Collins (Irish leader), Michael Collins becomes Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State. * January 26 – Italian forces occupy Misrata, Italian Libya, Libya; the Pacification of Libya, reconquest of Libya begins. February * February 6 ** Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) succeeds Pope Benedict XV, to become the 259th pope. ** The Washington Naval Treaty, Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty is signed between the United States, United Kingdom, Empire of Japan, Japan, French Third Republic, France and Kingdom of Italy, Italy. Japan returns some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
