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'''Kalamaria ''' (Greek: Καλαμαριά) is a municipality that lies next suburban city in the [[Thessaloniki Prefecture]] located about 5 km southeast of downtown [[Thessaloniki]]. The city is accessed with [[Konstantinos Karamanlis]] Avenue to the east which links with [[Greece Interstate 16|GR-16]] superhighway to [[Chalkidiki]] and one with Nikis Avenue and the old highway to Chalkidiki. Another main road links with [[ThessalonikiThermi]], where it belonged until . The [[1943Thessaloniki Ring]]lies to the southeast and east which bypasses the urban cluster of Thessaloniki except Panorama less than 2/3 from the sea. Its The municipal population is about 120,000, Kalamaria being the ranked second biggest city in [[Macedonia (Greece)|Macedonia]] as well as Northern Greece except Thessaly and ninth in Greece. The population boomed 8% from the whole country1991 census.  ==Historical population=={| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"|- bgcolor="#efefef"! Year !! Municipal population !! Change <!--!! Density-->|-| [[1981]] || 51,676 || - <!--|| -/km²-->|-| [[1991]] || 80,698 || 29,022/56.16% <!--|| -/km²-->|-| [[2001]] || 87,312 || 6,614/8. Though the 2% <!--|| -/km²-->|} ==History== The area has been inhabited since was first lived in the ancient years[[prehistoric]] times, and findings from that time are around the name "[[Karabournaki]] cape. Kalamaria" was first appeared in [[1083 for ]] and was mentioned in all parts southeast of Thessaloniki and not only the area of the first timepresent-day municipality. It The name '''Kalamaria''' must mean Kali Meria ( Καλή Μεριά - nice place) or Skala Meria (σκάλα μεριά - the place of the Skala, which is the name for the Byzantine naval station). Most During the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] and the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman periods]], the area was unhabited. In [[1920]], the first refugees came from [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]. Another round of Kalamaria's people refugees came after during the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Asia Minor Catastrophe]] in large numbers in [[1922]] . The total were up to 100,000 refugees relocated to Thessaloniki especially in the suburbs. Many and these were mainly of [[Pontic]] descent relocaeted in Kalamaria. The Pontic population dominate much of the population especially in the present day. The later years, the population began to boom to this day and today makes the second most populated municipality in Macedonia right after Kavala since the mid-1980s as well as Northern Greece except Thessaly. Today, the area is one of the exchange best places of populations between Greece the city and and Turkeypicked up from a large population. ==Sporting teams== Kalamaria has 14 sporting teams including the most famous [[Apollon Kalamaria FC|Apollon Kalamaria]]. They were Greeks who lived in Pontos ==Other== Kalamaria has a schools, lyceums, gymnasia, churches, banks, a post office, a sporting field, a cinema, a port, a marina and squares (''[[Asia Minorplateia|plateies]] and Eastern Thrace''). ==External links==*[http://www.kalamaria.gr/ Municipality of Kalamaria]  {{Thessaloniki}} [[Category:Prefecture of Thessaloniki]]<!--[[Category:Thessaloniki Prefecture]]--> [[el:Καλαμαριά]]