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The area was first lived in the prehistoric times, and findings from that time are around the [[Karabournaki]] cape. Kalamaria was first appeared in [[1083]] and was mentioned in all parts southeast of [[Thessaloniki]] and not only the area of the present-day municipality. 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). During the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] and the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman periods]], the area was unhabiteduninhabited.

In [[1920]], the first refugees came from Georgia. Another round of refugees came 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 relocated 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 city|Kavala]] since the mid-1980s as well as Northern Greece except [[Thessaly]]. Today, the area is one of the best places of the city and and picked up from a large population.

Kalamaria has a schools, lyceums, gymnasia, churches, banks, a post office, a sporting field, a cinema, a port, a marina and squares (''[[plateia|plateies]]'').

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