The channel in Nea Potidaia Antiquity: Ancient Potidaea and the Isthmus of Kassandra The history of Nea Potidaia begins in ancient Potidaea, a powerful city founded around 600 BC by settlers from Corinth at the narrow isthmus linking the mainland to the Kassandra Peninsula. This position gave Potidaea exceptional strategic value, controlling both land routes…
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Nea Moudania harbour Before the modern Nea Moudania was founded in 1922, there existed an ancient town in Asia Minor, Moudania, known today as Mudanya. This once-thriving coastal town, located on the Sea of Marmara, had a rich history stretching back to antiquity. Moudania played a crucial role in the Byzantine and Ottoman periods and…
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Harbour in Nea Kallikrateia Nea Kallikrateia is a modern settlement founded in the early 1920s, created almost entirely by Greek refugees from Asia Minor following the Asia Minor Catastrophe of AD 1922. Its founders came primarily from Kallikrateia in Eastern Thrace, near the Sea of Marmara, bringing with them their customs, religious traditions, and maritime…
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Nea Michaniona, from SE Nea Michaniona was founded in 1922 by refugees from Asia Minor, mainly from the old Michaniona (in present-day Turkey), who settled on the shores of the Thermaic Gulf after the Asia Minor Catastrophe. The first inhabitants brought with them strong maritime and fishing traditions, as well as tight community bonds, which…
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Thessaloniki, from S Thessaloniki was founded in 315 BC by Cassander, king of Macedon, who unified several smaller coastal settlements around the Thermaic Gulf into a new, powerful city and named it after his wife, the half-sister of Alexander the Great. The city’s position, at the head of a naturally sheltered gulf and on the…
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Platamon and Castle Platamon lies in an area of long-standing strategic importance, controlling the coastal passage between Macedonia and Thessaly at the foot of Mount Olympus. From antiquity, this corridor linked southern and northern Greece by land and sea, making the wider area significant for movement, trade, and defence. Although the modern settlement developed much…
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View of Stomio waterfront In antiquity, the wider area was connected with the territory of the ancient city of Eurymenae, known from historical sources and strategically placed to control the passages between the Thessalian hinterland and the sea. Proximity to the mouth of the Pineios offered a natural anchorage, access to fertile land, and control…
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The 14 km long beach of Agiokambos Prehistory and Early Settlements Although modern Agiokambos is a 20th-century creation, the eastern Thessalian coastline has been inhabited since very early times. On the slopes of Mavrovouni and around the former Lake Karla, important prehistoric sites have been identified, such as the Neolithic settlement of Palioskala, organised with…
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Chorefto beach and fishing harbour Zagora, built amphitheatrically on the eastern slopes of Mount Pelion, shows continuous human presence even though the first clear references under its present name appear in the 13th century. Archaeological finds point to habitation since antiquity, while in the medieval period the area was organized around monastic nuclei, most notably…
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View of the harbour in Damouchari The history of Mouresi and its small harbor Damouchari forms one of the most characteristic mountain–sea pairings in East Pelion. For centuries the village on the high, forested slopes supplied the maritime cove below, while the cove sustained the village by linking it to wider trade networks. Their stories…
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