Kalampaki (, formerly Καλαμπάκιον) is a village and a former municipality in the Drama regional unit,

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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality

Doxato Doxato (, formerly ) is a town and municipality in the Drama regional unit, in East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Kalampaki. Municipality The municipality Doxato was formed at the 2011 local government r ...

, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 81.064 km². It is 12 km to the south of

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. The Kalambaki municipal unit consists of the villages of Kalampaki,

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Kalamonas Kalamon or Kalamonas ( or ), until the 1920s known as Bosinos (Μποσινός, Todor Hristov Simovski, ''The Inhabited Places of the Aegean Macedonia'' (Skopje 1998), , p. 233) is a village in Kalampaki municipality, Drama regional unit, Greece ...

and Nerofraktis. Most of the population is employed in the agricultural sector, with

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and

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being the main products. The population of Kalambaki consists mainly of descendants of four population groups,

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, Greeks of

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, Greeks of

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(mainly from

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, whose ancestors spoke Turkish but were Greek Orthodox Christians in religion) and Greeks whose ancestors had been living in Kalambaki already before the

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(1923) was ratified. In the vicinity of Kalambaki

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have been discovered indicating that the ancient

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passed very close by. Every year on January 18, the feast day of

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, a religious festival named the "Kourbani" is held in Kalambaki. It is possibly the Christian equivalent of the Muslim

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. During this day a dish consisting of

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in a type of

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known as pligouri is produced and shared among the participants in the festival.

References

{{Doxato div Populated places in Drama (regional unit) Doxato