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AERODROMIO (Settlement) KAVALA
It was named Aerodromio (=Airport) because it is located at the region of the Kavala airport, which is at a distance of 9 km.
FILIPPI (Ancient city) KAVALA
Philippoi: Eth. Phillippeus, Philippesios. A city of Macedonia, which
took its name from its founder, Philip, the father of Alexander. Origin. ally,
it had been called Crenides (Krenides, Strab. vii. p. 331; Appian, B.C. iv. 105,
107; Steph. B. s. v Philippoi), or the Place of Fountains, from the numerous streams
in which the Angites takes its source. Near Crenides were the principal mines
of gold in a hill called, according to Appian (l. c.) Dionysi Collis (lophos Dionusou),
probably the same mountain as that where the Satrae possessed an oracle of Dionysus
interpreted by the Bessi. (Herod. vii. 111.) Crenides does not appear to have
belonged to the Thasians in early times although it was under their dominion in
the 105th Olympiad (B.C. 360). When Philip of Macedon got possession of the mines,
he worked them with so much success, that they yielded 1000 talents a year, although
previously they had not been very productive. (Diodor. xvi. 4--8.) The old city
was enlarged by Philip, after the capture of Amphipolis, Pydna, and Potidaea,
and fortified to protect his frontier against the Thracian mountaineers. On the
plain of Philippi, between Haemus and Pangaeus, the last battle was lost by the
republicans of Rome. Appian has given a clear description of Philippi, and the
position on which Cassius and Brutus encamped. The town was situated on a steep
hill, bordered to the N. by the forests through which the Cassian army advanced,--to
the S. by a marsh, beyond which was the sea, to the E. by the passes of the Sapaei
and Corpili, and to the W. by the great plains of Myrcinus, Drabescus, and the
Strymon, which were 350 stadia in length. Not far from Philippi, was the hill
of Dionysus, containing the gold mines called Asyla; and 18 stadia from the town,
were two other heights, 8 stadia asunder; on the one to the N. Brutus pitched
his camp, and Cassius on that to the S. Brutus was protected on his right by rocky
hills, and the left of Cassius by a marsh. The river Gangas or Gangites flowed
along the front, and the sea was in the rear. The camps of the two leaders, although
separate, were enclosed within a common entrenchment, and midway between them
was the pass, which led like a gate from Europe to Asia. The galleys were at Neapolis,
70 stadia distant, and the commissariat in Thasos, distant 100 stadia. Dion Cassius
(xlvii. 35) adds, that Philippi was near Pangaeus and Symbolum, and that Symbolum,
which was between Philippi and Neapolis, was so called because it connected Pangaeus
with another mountain stretching inland; which indentifies it with the ridge which
stretches from Pravista to Kavala, separating the bay of Kavala from the plain
of Philippi. The Pylae, therefore, could be no other than the pass over that mountain
behind Kavala. M. Antonius took up his position on the right, opposite to that
of Cassius, at a distance of 8 stadia from the enemy. Octavius Caesar was opposed
to Brutus on the left hand of the even field. Here, in the autumn of B.C. 42,
in the first engagement, Brutus was successful against Octavius, while Antonius
had the advantage over Cassius. Brutus, incompetent to maintain the discipline
of his troops, was forced to fight again; and in an engagement which took place
on the same ground, twenty days afterwards, the Republic perished. Regarding the
battle a curious mistake was repeated by the Roman writers (Manil. i. 908; Ovid,
Met. xv. 824; Flor. iv. 42; Lucan, i. 680, vii. 854, ix. 271; Juv. viii. 242),
who represented it as fought on the same ground as Pharsalia,--a mistake which
may have arisen from the ambiguity in the lines of Virgil (Georg. i. 490), and
favoured by the fact of the double engagement at Philippi. (Merivale, Hist. of
Roman Empire, vol. iii. p. 214.) Augustus afterwards presented it with the privileges
of a colonia, with the name Col. Jul. Aug. Philip. (Orelli, Inscr. 512, 3658,
3746, 4064; and on coins ; Rasche, vol. iii. pt. 2. p. 1120), and conferred upon
it the Jus Italicum. (Dion Cass. li. 4.) It was here, in his second missionary
journey, that St. Paul, accompanied by Silas, came into contact with the itinerant
traders in popular superstitions (Acts, xvi. 12--40); and the city was again visited
by the Apostle on his departure from Greece. (Acts, xx. 6.) The Gospel obtained
a home in Europe here, for the first time; and in the autumn of A.D. 62, its great
teacher, from his prison, under the walls of Nero's palace, sent a letter of grateful
acknowledgment to his Macedonian converts. Philippi was [p. 600] on the Egnatian
road, 33 M. P. from Amphipolis, and 21 M. P. from Acontisma. (Itin. Anton.; Itin.
Hierosol.) The Theodosian Table presents two roads from Philippi to Heracleia
Sintica. One of the roads passed round the N. side of the lake Cercinitis, measuring
55 M. P., the other took the S. side of the lake, and measured 52 M. P. When Macedonia
was divided into two provinces by Theodosius the Younger, Philippi became the
ecclesiastical head of Macedonia Prima, and is mentioned in the Handbook of Hierocles.
The site, where there are considerable remains of antiquity, is still
known to the Greeks by its ancient name; by the Turks the place is called Felibedjik.
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IAMFORINI (Ancient city) KAVALA
Iamphorina, the capital of the Maedi, in Macedonia, which was taken
B.C. 211 by Philip, son of Demetrius. (Liv. xxvi. 25.) It is probably represented
by Vrania or Ivorina, in the tipper valley of the Morava. (Leake, Northern Greece,
vol. iii. p. 473.)
IION (Ancient city) KAVALA
Eion: Eth. Eioneus. A town and fortress situated at the mouth of the
Strymon, 25 stadia from Amphipolis, of which it was the harbour. (Thuc. iv. 102.)
Xerxes, on his return after the defeat at Salamis, sailed from Eion to Asia. (Herod.
viii. 118.) The Persian Boges was left in command of the town, which was captured,
after a desperate resistance, by the Athenians and their confederates, under Cimon.
(Herod. vii. 107; Thuc. i. 98; comp. Paus. viii. 8. § 2.) Brasidas attacked it
by land and by boats on the river, but was repulsed by Thucydides, who had come
from Thasos with his squadron in time to save it. (Thuc. iv. 107.) It was occupied
by Cleon; and the remains of his army, after their defeat at Amphipolis, mustered
again at Eion. (Thuc. v. 10.) Extensive ruins of thick walls, constructed of small
stones and mortar, among which appear many squared blocks in the Hellenic style,
have been found on the left bank of the Strymon beyond the ferry. These ruins
belong to the Byzantine period, and have been attributed to a town of the Lower
Empire, Komitisse, which the Italians have converted into Contessa. These remains
at the ferry stand nearly, if not exactly, on the site of Eion on the Strymon.
(Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 172.)
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NEAPOLIS (Ancient city) KAVALA
Neapolis. Eth. Neapolites. A town of Macedonia, and the haven of Philippi, from
which it was distant 10 M. P. (Strab. vii. p. 330; Ptol. iii. 13. § 9; Scymn.
685; Plin. iv. 11; Hierocl.; Procop. Aed. iv. 4; Itin. Hierosol.) It probably
was the same place as DATUM (Daton), famous for its gold-mines (Herod. ix. 75),
and a seaport, as Strabo (vii. p. 331) intimates: whence the proverb which celebrates
Datum for its good things. (Zenob. Prov. Graec. Cent. iii. 71; Harpocrat. s. v.
Datos.) Scylax does, indeed, distinguish between Neapolis and Datum; but, as he
adds that the latter was an Athenian colony, which could not have been true of
his original Datum, his text is, perhaps, corrupt in this place, as in so many
others, and his real meaning may have been that Neapolis was a colony which the
Athenians had established at Datum. Zenobius (l. c.) and Eustathius (ad Dionys.
Perieg. 517) both assert that Datum was a colony of Thasos; which is highly probable,
as the Thasians had several colonies on this coast. If Neapolis was a settlement
of Athens, its foundation was, it may be inferred, later than that of Amphipolis.
At the great struggle at Philippi the galleys of Brutus and Cassius were moored
off Neapolis. (Appian, B.C. iv. 106; Dion Cass. xlvii. 35.) It was at Neapolis,
now the small Turkish village of Kavallo (Leake, North. Greece, vol. iii. p. 180,
comp. pp. 217, 224), that Paul (Acts, xvi. 11) landed. The shore of the mainland
in this part is low, but the mountains rise to a considerable height behind. To
the W. of the channel which separates it from Thasos, the coast recedes and forms
a bay, within which, on a promontory with a port on each side, the town was situated.
(Conybeare and Howson, Life and Epist. of St. Paul, vol. i. p. 308.) Traces of
paved military roads are still found, as well as remains of a great aqueduct on
two tiers of Roman arches, and Latin inscriptions. (Clarke, Trav. vol. viii. p.
49.)
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PAGGAIO (Mountain) KAVALA
Pangaeum, Pangaeus (to Pangaion or Pangaion oros, ho Pangaios, Herod.
v. 16, vii. 112, 113; Thuc. ii. 99; Aesch. Pers. 494; Pind. Pyth. iv. 320; Eurip.
Rhes. 922, 972; Dion Cass. xlvii. 35; Appian, B.C. iv. 87, 106; Plin. iv. 18;
Virg. Georg. iv. 462; Lucan i.679), the great mountain of Macedonia, which, under
the modern name of Pirndri, stretching to the E. from the left bank of the Strymon
at the pass of Amphipolis, bounds all the eastern portion of the great Strymonic
basin on the S., and near Pravista meets the ridges which enclose the same basin
on the E. Pangaeume produced gold as well as silver (Herod. vii. 112; Appian,
B.C. iv. 106); and its slopes were covered in summer with the Rosa centifolia.
(Plin. xxi. 10; Theoph. H. P. vi. 6; Athen. xv. p. 682.) The mines were chiefly
in the hands of the Thasians; the other peoples who, according to Herodotus (l.
c.), worked Pangaeum, were the Pieres and Odomanti, but particularly the Satrae,
who bordered on the mountain. None of their money has reached us; but to the Pangaean
silver mines may be traced a large coin of Geta, king of the Edones. (Leake, Northern
Greece, vol. iii. pp. 176, 190, 212.)
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PERGAMOS (Ancient city) KAVALA
A fortress in the Pieric hollow, by which Xerxes passed in his march, leaving
Mt. Pangaeum on his right. It is identified with Pravista, where the lower maritime
ridge forms a junction with Pangaeum, and separates the Pieric valley from the
plain of Philippi.
SKAPTI YLI (Ancient city) KAVALA
Scapte Hyle (Skapte hule, Plut. Cim. 4, de Exilio, p. 605; Marcellin. Vit. Thucyd.
§ 19), or the foss wood, situated on the confines of Macedonia and Thrace, in
the auriferous district of Mt. Pangaeum, to which Thucydides was exiled, and where
he composed his great legacy for all ages - the history of the war in which he
had served as general.
THASSOS (Island) MAKEDONIA EAST & THRACE
FILIPPI (Ancient city) KAVALA
A city of Macedonia, now Filibah. It was situated on the river
Gangas or Gangites, and was founded by Philip on the site of an older town, Crenides
(Krenides). In the vicinity were productive gold mines. Here Octavianus and Antony
won a decisive victory over Brutus and Cassius in B.C. 42, and here the Apostle
Paul first preached in Europe, in A.D. 53. The seaport of Philippi was Datus or
Datum on the Strymonic Gulf.
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IION (Ancient city) KAVALA
A town in Thrace, at the mouth of the Strymon, twenty-five stadia from Amphipolis, of which it was the harbour.
PAGGAIO (Mountain) KAVALA
(Pangaion) or Pangaeus (Pangaios). A mountain range in Macedonia between the Strymon and the Nestus. It was famous for its mines of gold and silver, and for its roses.
THASSOS (Island) MAKEDONIA EAST & THRACE
(Thasos) or Thasus. Now Thaso or Tasso. An island in the north
of the Aegaean Sea, off the coast of Thrace, and opposite the mouth of the river
Nestus. It was at a very early period taken possession of by the Phoenicians,
on account of its valuable gold-mines. According to tradition the Phoenicians
were led by Thasus, son of Poseidon or Agenor, who came from the East in search
of Europa, and from whom the island derived its name. Thasos was afterwards colonized
by the Parians, B.C. 708, and among the colonists was the poet Archilochus. The
Thracians once possessed a considerable territory on the coast of Thrace, and
were one of the richest and most powerful peoples in the north of the Aegaean.
They were subdued by the Persians under Mardonius, and subsequently became part
of the Athenian maritime empire. They revolted, however, from Athens in B.C. 465,
and, after sustaining a siege of three years, were subdued by Cimon in 463. They
again revolted from Athens in 411, and called in the Spartans; but the island
was again restored to the Athenians by Thrasybulus in 407. Some remains of the
ancient town still exist, among them the Agora and a triumphal arch.
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NIKISSIANI (Small town) KAVALA
THASSOS (Port) MAKEDONIA EAST & THRACE
THASSOS (Municipality) MAKEDONIA EAST & THRACE
CHRYSSOUPOLI (Municipality) KAVALA
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ELEFTHERES (Municipality) KAVALA
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KARAVANGELIS (Village) KAVALA
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KAVALA (Town) MAKEDONIA EAST & THRACE
There are some places winning your heart at first sight, making you
feel familiar as if you have known them for ages, even when you visit them for
the first time! Some cities friendly, warm and also fascinating, beautiful, able
to keep you forever there, by them. That's exactly the feeling Kavala gives you,
because it isn't just a beautiful place, but a modern town with a long-lasting
historical background and a wealth of tradition, unique landscapes, but overall
with hospitable people! It is the city, which will convince you immediately of
its advantages in all the aspects of life.Traveling towards Kavala means penetrating
the heart of Eastern Macedonia. This historical, amazing city located like an
amphitheater by the sea, combines all the things that could satisfy the most demanding
visitor: mountains and sea, picturesque scenery and modern life, archaeological
sightseeing, exciting excursions, cultural activities and tranquillity within
nature... That's Kavala!
Position - access
It takes about 2 hours (165kms) to reach it by car from Thessaloniki.
It also takes the same time from here to the last European City to the east, Alexandroupolis
(174kms).
Easily accessible, by all means, air, sea and land, Kavala becomes
the perfect destination with its frequent, comfortable communications with the
islands of the Aegean Sea, the rest of Greece and Europe. There are international
charter flights too, departing from the modern airport, situated 20km outside
the city and considered as one of the safest in the Balkans. In Kavala there are
available all kinds of public services (governmental services, banks, hospitals
etc.) as well as the characteristic hospitable spirit of its 60.000 inhabitants!
Historical flash-back
2600 years are too many to explore at once!
Kavala's journey through history starts approximately in the
Homeric era. Thanks to its position it has always been the focus of attention.
"Neapolis"
(new city) was the original name of the city (7th century BC) which was an alien
of Athens at the time
of Pericles (5th century BC). It was also a very important center during the Macedonian
Age. Neapolis was the very first place St. Paul stepped on European land when
he came here to preach the Holy Bible and spread the Christian religion. For this
reason, during the Byzantine time it was renamed "Christoupolis". It's
port was an important commercial location, which attracted the interest of the
Romans and became the cause of destructive attacks by Goths, Huns, Normans and
Bulgarians. During the 15th century it falls into the hands of Turks and remains
occupied up to the beginning of the 20th century. After its liberation it becomes
a modern city.
The Old City
Nostalgic rambles into the city of the past!
There is one thing for sure: That you are going to enjoy many
rambles. You will walk throughout the stone-paved alley, which leads to the "Imaret",
a characteristic Islamic building of Mohammed Ali, founder of the last Egyptian
dynasty, and to the peninsula of Panagia.
First of all, you will pass from the lighthouse, where you will spend a
lot of time admiring the magnificent, complete view of Kavala. After that, you
have to walk up to the Castle, visit its tower, feel the life of other ages.
Walking throughout the scenic alleys you will get to the other side
of the old city, the famous "Kamares", the Roman aqueduct that was reconstructed
by the sultan Suleiman the Magnificent around 1550. It is the gate, which on one
side opens to the traditional shipyard and caulking area and on the other to the
heart of the modern city.
New City
A city, really Greek in beauty and hospitality!
Kavala is a large balcony to the sun, the sea and the full-moon
nights. It unfolds on the slopes of the hill like an amphitheater, ending at the
beautiful seaside and its lovely port.
Kavala breathes deeply in the Public Garden, next to the Heroes' Monument,
which keeps alive its historical memory. The statue of the tobacco worker stands
in the middle of the homonymous square and right behind it there is the imposing
building of the old tobacco warehouse with its wide windows and the excellent
artistic architectural decoration. The last century turns into present through
elegant mansions, which are located in the center of the city witnessing nobility
and civilization. It's worth to admire the Town hall, the Municipal Library, the
building of the Byzantine Antiquities Authority and the Municipal Museum and take
photos of them to complete your collection. You will find all these in the heart
of the modern city, carefully decorated with parks and pavements, where all the
streets lead to the palm-trees of the seaside promenade.
Coastal Kavala
Plentiful light, color and sea for the eyes!
The best of tourism in a city full of life! Kavala is the kind of city
that creates a strong relationship with its visitor. That's why you can't come
here just once. But, the most important you will realize from the very first moment
is that every day differs offering you new experiences.
The beaches of the city
In Kavala the summer has many possible names. It may be named Perigiali,
Rapsani, Kalamitsa, Batis,
Tosca, Palio... Each
name belongs to a beach of the city, starting from its very center. The most distant
one is just 6km away, decorating with its refreshing beauty the landscape. All
of them offer crystal-clear water, prizewinners of the Blue Flag of Europe. As
a matter of fact, Kavala has of the most modern Biological Sewage Treatment Plant
in the Mediterranean. Visit all of them! Swim during the sunny day and ramble
at night in the moonlight, every time in a different environment, just by walking.
"Protege" of the city are the coasts of Perigiali, at 1500m to the east
and Rapsani, 200m only from the center. You also have to see romantic Batis, natty
Tosca, Kalamitsa and Palio which "goes to bed" late...
There is an exotic landscape, 40km eastern of Kavala, on the mouth
of the river Nestos,
really unusual for Greece. A small verdant peninsula with a wide sandy beach reaching
out into the sea, is a Pacific's island in the Mediterranean!
Mountainous Kavala
The highlands
The mountainous highlands of Kavala are waiting to offer you
another kind of emotions. Palia Kavala (16km), Koryfes
(23km), Platamonas (35km),
Kechrocambos (55km)
are some of the picturesque villages you will find during your excursion. You
are going to have some rest at their commons, their cafes or taverns while the
main subject to talk about, will be the wonderful, amazing landscape. On the mountain
of Pangeon, about 44km
from Kavala is the Byzantine monastery (nunnery of nowadays) of Icosifinissa,
one more serious reason to take you off the city and its nice beaches.
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MELISSOKOMIO (Village) KAVALA
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MIKROCHORI (Settlement) KAVALA
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NIKISSIANI (Small town) KAVALA
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PALEOCHORI (Small town) KAVALA
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PYRGOCHORI (Village) KAVALA
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THASSOS (Island) MAKEDONIA EAST & THRACE
Pages of Kavala Prefecture
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