{"id":41965,"date":"2025-12-13T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/nea-skioni\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T07:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T05:00:03","slug":"nea-skioni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/nea-skioni\/","title":{"rendered":"Nea Skioni"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nea-skioni.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nea-skioni.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nea-skioni-300x76.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nea-skioni-1024x259.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nea-skioni-150x38.jpg 150w, https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nea-skioni-768x194.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>Nea Skioni and harbour<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Nea Skioni is a modern coastal village on the Kassandra peninsula whose very name is a deliberate link to the <strong>ancient city of Skione<\/strong> that once stood nearby. In practical terms, today\u2019s settlement grew around the shore where seasonal fishing activity already existed, and it gradually became the permanent community and harbour you see now<\/p>\n\n<p>The village was <strong>established in AD 1918<\/strong>, while an older inland settlement in the area\u2014known as Tsaprani\u2014was later abandoned (commonly dated to AD 1930). This shift from upland to coast fits a wider pattern in Chalkidiki, where livelihoods increasingly focused on the sea, easier transport, and (later) tourism.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:41px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ancient Skione \u2013 the city behind the name<\/h3>\n\n<p>Ancient Skione (also written Scione) lay on Pallene (Kassandra) and was remembered in antiquity as an old colony in Chalkidiki; later writers preserve the local claim that its founders came from the <strong>Peloponnese<\/strong>, with a legend linking the settlement\u2019s origins to the returns from Troy. Whatever the mythic colouring, Skione was a real polis with fortifications and an acropolis landscape that archaeologists have sought in the area east\/south-east of modern Nea Skioni<\/p>\n\n<p>Skione steps into sharper focus during the Peloponnesian War. It belonged to the Athenian alliance earlier in the 5th century BC, but in <strong>423 BC <\/strong>it revolted against Athens during the uneasy truce period and was encouraged by the Spartan commander Brasidas\u2014a choice that proved disastrous once Athenian power returned to the region.<\/p>\n\n<p>After Athens finally regained control, the punishment recorded in the tradition is exceptionally harsh: the city was <strong>taken and destroyed<\/strong>, and its population suffered mass killing and enslavement\u2014one of the conflict\u2019s stark reminders that the war could turn brutally punitive toward revolting allies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nea Skioni and harbour Nea Skioni is a modern coastal village on the Kassandra peninsula whose very name is a deliberate link to the ancient city of Skione that once stood nearby. In practical terms, today\u2019s settlement grew around the shore where seasonal fishing activity already existed, and it gradually became the permanent community and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[736],"tags":[1038,1221],"class_list":["post-41965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thermaikos-gulf","tag-nea","tag-skioni","category-736","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41966,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41965\/revisions\/41966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eagleray.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}