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As a de facto annex of Thessalonica, the peninsula shared the city's fate and came under a brief Venetian control in 1423, before being captured by the Ottoman Empire in c. 1430. [10] Kassandra (Turkish: Kesendire) was one of the places that rebelled against the Ottomans in 1821. Because it managed to stop the Turkish army from fighting the ...
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It is the seat of the municipality of Kassandra, in the center of the peninsula. Its population was 3,158 at the 2021 census. [ 1 ] It was named after the ancient city Cassandreia , which was located near the village.
Chalkidiki (/ k æ l ˈ k ɪ d ɪ k i /; Greek: Χαλκιδική, romanized: Chalkidikḗ [xalciðiˈci], alternatively Halkidiki), also known as Chalcidice, is a peninsula and regional unit of Greece, part of the region of Central Macedonia, in the geographic region of Macedonia in Northern Greece.
Paliouri (Greek: Παλιούρι, pronounced) is a village and a community in the peninsula of Kassandra, Chalkidiki, Greece. It is situated between low mountains near the southeasternmost tip of the peninsula, Cape Paliouri. The community includes the small villages Agios Nikolaos and Xyna.
Agia Paraskevi (Greek: Αγία Παρασκευή, IPA: [aˈʝia paraskeˈvi]) is a village located in the southeast of the peninsula of Kassandra, in Chalkidiki, northern Greece. The population of the community of Agia Paraskevi, which includes the village Loutra, was 360 in 2021. [ 1 ]
Cassandreia. Cassandreia, Cassandrea, or Kassandreia (Ancient Greek: Κασσάνδρεια, Kassándreia) was once one of the most important cities in Ancient Macedonia, founded by and named after Cassander in 316 BC.
The location is the only land access to the Kassandra Peninsula. Built on the site of the ancient city of Potidaea, 33 kilometers south-west of Polygyros, it was re-founded in 1922 by Greek refugees from Platanos in Eastern Thrace and Kalolimnos (now called Imrali) which remained under Turkish rule. Today it has a population of 1,543 (2011).