Campbell was the last and most short-lived Jewish settlement. It was founded after the fire that destroyed the centre of Thessaloniki in 1917 and affected 52,000 Jewish community members. The name is associated with Robert Jameson Neil Campbell, a Levantine of English descent born in the Jewish district of Hasköy in Constantinople, on the north […]
The “Vyzantio” Building Cooperative built the settlement of Vyzantio next to Campbell. The Cooperative was founded in 1928 and chose an area southeast of Depot on the road to Sedes (today’s Ethnikis Antistaseos Street) to build the new settlement. The location provided easy access to Thessaloniki. In addition, the ground was flat with a slight […]
Finikas was created by the building cooperative of the Thessaloniki Tramway and Electricity Company employees. Construction began in 1928, and within five years, the settlement numbered 61 families (320 inhabitants). Finikas was served by the area of Depot (as well as the neighbouring settlements of Votsis and Vyzantio). By 1945, the cooperative had erected buildings […]
In mid-1928, the Ministry of Welfare announced a tender to construct seventy German huts in Kalamaria, to house 140 families. The boundaries of the area known as Germanika (German) are formed by Metamorfoseos, Komninon, Pasalidi, and Pontou streets.
Ktinotrofika consists of an elongated zone, one or two city blocks wide, surrounded by Aegean, Pontou, Theodosioupoleos and Chaldias streets. The development of this zone became possible after the demolition of buildings erected by the British and the French who came to Macedonia during the First World War. The process began in 1935 and was […]
The settlement of Aretsou had eight hundred inhabitants in 1932-33 but soon acquired a unique character. Aretsou had a church dedicated to Agios Nikolaos, located on the building block formed by Karamaouna, Drakopoulou, Makrochoriou and Agiou Nikolaou streets. The teacher St. Tzorbatzikostis led the effort to build a school on the site of the current […]
Kouri was founded at the same time and next to the settlement of Aretsou with the construction of about 75 houses for 229 families in 1929-1930. Most of the houses were duplexes. The original settlers were refugees from Kouri in Asia Minor, Constantinople, and other communities in Asia Minor. The settlement boundaries are formed by […]
Katirli was built in two phases in collaboration with the Greek Refugee Settlement Commission. One hundred and six houses had been built by July 1928. The Commission provided an additional one hundred in September 1930. Most residents came from Katirli in the Sea of Marmara, Nicomedia, Bithynia, Chili, Constantinople, and Eastern Thrace. Almost all the […]
Nea Krini was formed in 1929-1930 by refugees from Çeşme (the word Çeşme means spring or fountain in Turkish) and Smyrna. The settlement borders Miaouli, Ephesou, Kanari, Vryoulon, Koundourioti, Alatsaton, Ioakeim streets and the coastal road. Several villas were built around Atlantidos, Ioakeim, and Miaouli streets, on the beach and the area defined by Atlantidos, […]
The settlement of Derkon is an urban islet next to the coastal settlements. Constantinopolitan refugees from the province of Derkon founded it in 1930 to settle 182 families. It is defined by Iraklias, Karatasou, Drakopoulou, Mikroulea, Kolotourou, Adramytiou and Evelpidou streets. The settlement lacked a church and school, so the residents visited Kalamaria. Derkon had […]
Karabournaki is not an organised settlement but an area. In 1925, refugees began to build shacks on an appropriated site (defined by the current Rousidi, Sofouli, Kerasountos, Kallidou, Trapezountos, Karaoli and Grigoriou Kidonion streets) for 490 plots. The refugees used the land for two-storey houses, a church and a school that was erected in 1937 […]
Agios Panteleimon includes exclusively detached houses (127 two-storey residences). In the early period, the houses were surrounded by fields, and there were no roads, no transport, and no basic infrastructure. The only exception was a meeting room converted into a school building. Later, on the initiative of the inhabitants, the church of Agios Panteleimon was […]
Initially, the settlement of Votsis stood outside the city limits. Today it borders Kalamaria on Ethnikis Antistasis Avenue. Votsis consists of 84 apartments in fourteen three-storey buildings, each of which has two apartments per floor and a meeting room.
The construction of the settlement began in 1958. The first residents moved into their new homes in 1962. Agios Ioannis was an isolated settlement with the feel of a village surrounded by fields, flocks of sheep and cows, a poultry farm, a textile dyeing factory, numerous wells, and street vendors. The settlement consisted of 39 […]