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Ελλάδα, ελληνική, όμορφη Ελλάδα, ταξίδια στην Ελλάδα, πόλεις στην Ελλάδα, ελληνικός πολιτισμός, ξενοδοχεία στην Ελλάδα, ελληνικά τρόφιμα, ελληνικός πολιτισμός, φύση στην Ελλάδα, ελληνικά μνημεία, τουρισμός στην Ελλάδα, εμπόριο Chalcidice or Chalkidike or Chalkidiki or Halkidiki (Greek: Χαλκιδική [xalciðiˈci]), is a peninsula and regional unit of Greece, part of the Region of Central Macedonia in Northern Greece. The autonomous Mount Athos region constitutes the easternmost part of the peninsula, but not of the regional unit. The capital of Chalkidiki is the main town of Polygyros, located in the centre of the peninsula.
Chalkidiki today is a popular summer tourist destination.Acanthus
Acrothoi
Aege
Alapta
Aphytis
Apollonia (Chalcidice)
Charadrus
Cleonae (Chalcidice)
Galepsus
Mekyberna
Mende
Neapolis, Chalcidice
Olophyxus
Olynthus
Palaiochori Neposi castle
Polichne
Potidaea
Scione
Scolus
Sermylia
Stageira
Spartolus
Thyssus
Torone
Xerxes Canal
Economy[edit]
Agriculture[edit]
The peninsula is notable for its olive oil and olive production. Also various types of wine are produced.
Tourism[edit]
Chalkidiki has been a popular summer tourist destination since the late 1950s when people from Thessaloniki started spending their summer holidays in the coastal villages. In the beginning tourists rented rooms in the houses of locals. By the 1960s, tourists from Austria and Germany started to visit Chalkidiki more frequently. Since the start of the big tourist boom in the 1970s, the whole region has been captured by tourism.[7] In the region there is a golf course and there is a plan for other four in the future.
Mining[edit]
Gold was mined in the region during antiquity by Philip II of Macedon and the next rulers. Since 2013, a revival of mining for gold and other minerals was underway with a number of concessions having been granted to Eldorado Gold of Canada. However, critics claim that mining would adversely affect tourism and the environment.[8]
Administration[edit]
The regional unit Chalkidiki is subdivided into five municipalities. These are (number as in the map in the infobox):[9]
Aristotelis (2)
Kassandra (4)
Nea Propontida (3)
Polygyros (1)
Sithonia (5)
Prefecture[edit]
As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the regional unit Chalkidiki was created out of the former prefecture Chalkidiki (Greek: Νομός Χαλκιδικής). The prefecture had the same territory as the present regional unit. At the same time, the municipalities were reorganised, according to the table below.[9]
New municipality Old municipalities Seat
Aristotelis Arnaia Ierissos
Panagia
Stagira-Akanthos
Kassandra Kassandra Kassandreia
Pallini
Nea Propontida Kallikrateia Nea Moudania
Moudania
Triglia
Polygyros Polygyros Polygyros
Anthemountas
Zervochoria
Ormylia
Sithonia Sithonia Nikiti
Toroni
Provinces[edit]
Aristotle was born here in 384 B.C.
Visit Macedonia - Ammouliani island, Halkidiki Aton, Greece.
Visit Macedonia - Ammouliani island, Halkidiki Aton, Greece.
Ammouliani (Greek: Αμμουλιανή) - also known as Amoliani - is an island located in the Chalkidiki regional unit, Greece, 120 km from Thessaloniki. Administratively it is part of the municipality of Stagira-Akanthos.
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Macedonia today is a geographical region of Greece, and the largest of the Greek territory.
It constitutes most of the geographic and historical region of ancient Macedon, a Greek kingdom ruled by the Argeads whose most celebrated members were Alexander the Great and his father Philip II.
In 336 B.C., Alexander the Great became the leader of the Greek kingdom of Macedonia. By the time he died 13 years later, Alexander had built an empire that stretched from Greece all the way to India. That brief but thorough empire-building campaign changed the world: It spread Greek ideas and culture from the Eastern Mediterranean to Asia. Historians call this era the Hellenistic period.
The name Macedonia was later applied to identify various administrative areas in the Roman and Byzantine Empires with widely differing borders.