Prochoma (, ) is a village and a
community
A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given g ...
of the
Chalkidona municipality.
Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of
Koufalia
Koufalia () is a town and a municipal unit of the Chalkidona municipality in Thessaloniki regional unit, Macedonia, Greece. Koufalia is the seat of the municipality of Chalkidona. Before the 2011 local government reform it was a municipality.
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, of which it was a municipal district.
The 2021 census recorded 1,940 inhabitants in the community.
The community of Prochoma covers an area of 38.537 km
2.
Administrative division
The community of Prochoma consists of three communities:
[
* Akropotamos (population 453 in 2021)
* Kastanas (population 483)
*Prochoma (population 1,004)
]
History
The population of Prochoma consists of Greek refugees
Greek refugees is a collective term used to refer to the more than one million Greek Orthodox natives of Asia Minor, Thrace and the Black Sea areas who fled during the Greek genocide (1914-1923) and Greece's later defeat in the Greco-Turkish W ...
from Pontus
Pontus or Pontos may refer to:
* Short Latin name for the Pontus Euxinus, the Greek name for the Black Sea (aka the Euxine sea)
* Pontus (mythology), a sea god in Greek mythology
* Pontus (region), on the southern coast of the Black Sea, in modern ...
.
See also
* List of settlements in the Thessaloniki regional unit
This is a list of settlements in the Thessaloniki regional unit, Greece:
* Adam
* Adendro
* Agia Paraskevi
* Agia Triada
* Agios Antonios
* Agios Athanasios
* Agios Charalambos
* Agios Pavlos
* Agios Vasileios
* Akropotamos
* Ampelokipoi ...
References
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Populated places in Thessaloniki (regional unit)
Chalkidona