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Chalkidiki, also Halkidiki or Chalcidice, less often Khalkidiki and rarely Chalkidice (), is one of the prefectures of Greece
Prefectures of Greece

Greece consists of 13 administrative regions known as Peripheries of Greece, which are further subdivided into 3 Super-prefectures of Greece and 54 prefectures or nomes ....
. It is located in the southeastern portion of Central
Central Macedonia

Central Macedonia is one of the thirteen peripheries of Greece of Greece, consisting of the central part of the regions of Greece of Macedonia ....
 Macedonia
Macedonia (Greece)

Macedonia is a geographical and historical Regions of Greece in Southeastern Europe Europe. Macedonia is the largest and second most populous Greece region....
. The Cholomontas or the Cholomon
Cholomon

Cholomon or Cholomontas is a mountain in Northern Chalcidice....
 mountains lie in the northcentral part. It consists of a large peninsula in the northwestern Aegean Sea
Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkans and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey respectively....
, resembling a hand with three "fingers" (though in Greek these peninsulas are often referred to as "legs") – Pallene
Pallene, Chalcidice

Pallene is the westernmost of the three headlands of Chalcidice, which run out into the Aegean Sea. It is said to have anciently borne the name of Phlegra and to have witnessed the conflict between the gods and the earthborn Gigantes....
 (now Kassandra
Cassandreia

Cassandra was one of the most important cities in Ancient Macedonia founded by and named after Cassander in 316 BC located near the site of the earlier Ancient Greece city of Potidaea....
), Sithonia
Sithonia

Sithonia is a peninsula located south of the central part of Halkidiki which is also in the south-central part of the Halkidiki peninsula. The Kassandra peninsula lies to the west and the Mount Athos peninsula at the east....
, and Agion Oros (the ancient Acte), which contains Mount Athos
Mount Athos

Mount Athos is a mountain on the peninsula of the same name in Macedonia , of northern Greece, called in Greek language Agion Oros , or in English, "Holy Mountain"....
 and its monasteries
Monastery

Monastery , a term derived from the Greek language word ???ast?????, neut. of ???ast????? - monasterios denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer as well as the domestic quarters and workplace of Monk, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in Cenobium or alone ....
.

In ancient times, Chalkidiki was part of Thrace
Thrace

Thrace is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe. Today the name Thrace designates a region spread over southern Bulgaria , northeastern Greece , and European Turkey ....
.






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Chalkidiki, also Halkidiki or Chalcidice, less often Khalkidiki and rarely Chalkidice (), is one of the prefectures of Greece
Prefectures of Greece

Greece consists of 13 administrative regions known as Peripheries of Greece, which are further subdivided into 3 Super-prefectures of Greece and 54 prefectures or nomes ....
. It is located in the southeastern portion of Central
Central Macedonia

Central Macedonia is one of the thirteen peripheries of Greece of Greece, consisting of the central part of the regions of Greece of Macedonia ....
 Macedonia
Macedonia (Greece)

Macedonia is a geographical and historical Regions of Greece in Southeastern Europe Europe. Macedonia is the largest and second most populous Greece region....
. The Cholomontas or the Cholomon
Cholomon

Cholomon or Cholomontas is a mountain in Northern Chalcidice....
 mountains lie in the northcentral part. It consists of a large peninsula in the northwestern Aegean Sea
Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkans and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey respectively....
, resembling a hand with three "fingers" (though in Greek these peninsulas are often referred to as "legs") – Pallene
Pallene, Chalcidice

Pallene is the westernmost of the three headlands of Chalcidice, which run out into the Aegean Sea. It is said to have anciently borne the name of Phlegra and to have witnessed the conflict between the gods and the earthborn Gigantes....
 (now Kassandra
Cassandreia

Cassandra was one of the most important cities in Ancient Macedonia founded by and named after Cassander in 316 BC located near the site of the earlier Ancient Greece city of Potidaea....
), Sithonia
Sithonia

Sithonia is a peninsula located south of the central part of Halkidiki which is also in the south-central part of the Halkidiki peninsula. The Kassandra peninsula lies to the west and the Mount Athos peninsula at the east....
, and Agion Oros (the ancient Acte), which contains Mount Athos
Mount Athos

Mount Athos is a mountain on the peninsula of the same name in Macedonia , of northern Greece, called in Greek language Agion Oros , or in English, "Holy Mountain"....
 and its monasteries
Monastery

Monastery , a term derived from the Greek language word ???ast?????, neut. of ???ast????? - monasterios denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer as well as the domestic quarters and workplace of Monk, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in Cenobium or alone ....
.

In ancient times, Chalkidiki was part of Thrace
Thrace

Thrace is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe. Today the name Thrace designates a region spread over southern Bulgaria , northeastern Greece , and European Turkey ....
. The first Greek settlers in this area came from Chalcis
Chalcis

Chalcis or Chalkida, Halkida, Halkis or Chalkis , the chief town of the island of Euboea in Greece, is situated on the strait of the Euripus Strait at its narrowest point....
 (Halkis) and Eretria
Eretria

Eretria was a polis in Ancient Greece, located on the western coast of the island of Euboea , south of Chalcis, facing the coast of Attica across the narrow Euboian Gulf....
, cities in Euboea
Euboea

For the Greek mythology figure, see Euboea Euboea is the second largest of the Greece Aegean Islands and the second largest List of islands of Greece overall in area and population, after Crete....
, around the eighth century BC who founded cities such as Mende
Mende

Mende may refer to:* Mende people* Mende language* a commune of France, Mende, Loz?re in the Loz?re d?partement in France.* a village in Pest county Hungary: Mende, Hungary...
, Toroni
Toroni

Toroni , ancient form: Torone is an ancient Greek city located in the southwest edge of Sithonia peninsula in Chalkidiki, 20 km after Neos Marmaras and 3 km before Porto Koufo , one of the largest physical harbours of Greece....
 and Scioni; a second wave came from Andros
Andros

Andros, or Andro , an island of the Greece archipelago, the most northerly of the Cyclades, approximately 10 km south east of Euboea, and about north of Tinos....
 in the sixth century BC. The ancient city of Stageira
Stageira

Stageira was an ancient Greece city on the Chalcidice peninsula and is chiefly known for being the birthplace of Aristotle. The city lies a few kilometres north of the present-day village of Stagira, close to the city now called Olympias....
 was the birthplace of the great philosopher Aristotle
Aristotle

Aristotle was a Greeks philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, Poetics , theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology....
 (???st?t????).

The capital of Chalkidiki is the main town of Polygyros
Polygyros

Polygyros is a town and Communities and Municipalities of Greece in Central Macedonia, the capital of the Prefecture of Chalkidiki. Polygyros is south of Greece Interstate 16 ....
 (in Greek ?????????), located in the center of the peninsula. Its most populous municipalities are Moudania
Moudania, Greece

Moudania is a municipality in Chalkidiki, Greece, named after Mudanya in present Turkey. Population 17,032 . The seat of the municipality is in Nea Moudania....
, Kallikrateia
Kallikrateia

Kallikrateia is a municipality in Halkidiki, Greece. Population 10,881 . The seat of the municipality is in Nea Kallikrateia....
, Polygyros, and Kassandra. Its largest towns are Nea Moudania
Nea Moudania

Nea Moudania is the main town of the municipality of Moudania, Greece, with a population of 17,032 inhabitants Halkidiki's most populous town. The town is located 60 km south of Thessaloniki and is considered to be the financial and commercial centre of the whole prefecture....
,(??a ???da???) Nea Kallikrateia, (??a ?a??????te?a) and the main town of Polygyros.

There are a lot of summer resorts on the beaches of all three fingers where other minor towns and villages are located, such as at Yerakini
Yerakini

Yerakini or Gerakini village lies on the Toroneos Gulf between the two fingers of Cassandreia and Sithonia in the Chalkidiki/Khalkidiki peninsula of the province Macedonia in Northern Greece, 80 kilometres from Thessaloniki, and 65 kilometres from the Thessaloniki International Airport....
 (Gerakina Beach), Neos Marmaras (Porto Carras
Porto Carras

Porto Carras , known as Porto Carras Grand Resort, is one of northern Greece's largest and most famous hotels and holiday resorts. It is located in Sithonia, Halkidiki peninsula in northern Greece....
) Ouranoupolis, Nikiti, Psakoudia, Kallithea (Pallene/Pallini, Athos), Sani Resort
Sani Resort

The Sani Resort is a luxury resorts in Northern Greece, in the province of Halkidiki.It has 3 hotels, The Sani Beach Club , The Sani Beach Hotel and the Porto Sani Village ....
 and more.

In June 2003, at the holiday resort Porto Carras
Porto Carras

Porto Carras , known as Porto Carras Grand Resort, is one of northern Greece's largest and most famous hotels and holiday resorts. It is located in Sithonia, Halkidiki peninsula in northern Greece....
 located in Neos Marmaras, Sithonia, European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
 leaders presented the first draft of the European constitution. See History of the European Constitution for developments after this point.

The only prefectural boundary is with the Thessaloniki prefecture
Thessaloniki Prefecture

Thessaloniki is a nomos in Greece, containing Thessaloniki, Lagadas and the northern portion of the Chalcidicean peninsula. The prefecture is the second in Greece in population and the largest in Macedonia as well as northern Greece....
 located to the north.

Television
List of Greek language television channels

Television broadcasting in Greece began in 1966, with in both the number of people attending cinemas in Greece, and the amount of films produced....

  • Chalkidiki TV - Nea Moudania
  • Super TV - Nea Moudania


Transport

  • GR-18, NW, W, SW, Cen., NE
  • Chalkidiki has no railroads
    Rail transport

    Rail transport is the conveyance of passengers and goods by means of wheeled vehicles running along railways . Rail transport is part of the logistics chain, which facilitates international trade and economic growth....
     and airports.
  • A bus system, KTEL, serves major municipalities.


Ancient sites

  • Acanthus
    Acanthus (Greece)

    Acanthus or Akanthos was an ancient Greek city on the Mount Athos peninsula. It was located on the north-east side of Akti, on the most eastern peninsula of Chalcidice....
  • Acrothoi
  • Aege
  • Alapta
  • Aphytis
  • Apollonia (Chalcidice)
    Apollonia (Chalcidice)

    Apollonia was the ancient chief town of Chalcidice in Macedonia, situated north of Olynthus, and a little south of the Chalcidian mountains. That this Apollonia is a different place from Apollonia, Thessaloniki, appears from Xenophon, who describes the Chalcidian Apollonia as distant 10 or 12 miles from Olynthus....
  • Charadrus
    Charadrus

    Charadrus is a Catholic titular see of Asia Minor. According to Strabo and Pseudo-Scylax it was a harbour and fortress in Cilicia Tracheia, between Anemurium and Antioch, The Greek name is Charadros or Charadrous, still retained in the name Kalandran....
  • Cleonae (Chalcidice)
    Cleonae (Chalcidice)

    Cleonae or Cleon? or Kleonai was an ancient city on the Akte peninsula , on its western coast, northwest of Thyssos . Mentioned by Strabo, it was colonized by Euboean colonists from Chalcis....
  • Galepsus
    Galepsus

    Galepsus was an ancient Greece city on the peninsula of Sithonia, the central peninsula of the Chalkidiki, in Thrace. It was probably located on a hill about 8 km to the north of Torone and about 17 km from Amphipolis....
  • Mekyberna
  • Mende
    Mende (Greece)

    Mende was an ancient Greek city located in the western coast of Pallene, Chalcidice peninsula in Chalkidiki facing the coast of Pieria across the narrow Thermaic Gulf near the modern town of Kalandra....
  • Neapolis, Chalcidice
    Neapolis, Chalcidice

    Neapolis meaning "New City", was an ancient city on east coast of the isthmus the Pallene, Chalcidice, Chalcidice, Greece between Aphytis and Aege....
  • Olophyxus
  • Olynthus
    Olynthus

    Olynthus was an ancient city of Chalcidice, built mostly on two flat-topped hills 30–40m in height, in a fertile plain at the head of the Gulf of Torone, near the neck of the peninsula of Pallene, about 2.5 kilometers from the sea, and about 60 stadia from Potidaea....
  • Palaiochori "Neposi" castle
    Palaiochori, Chalkidiki

    Palaiochori is a village in Chalkidiki, Greece, part of the municipality Arnaia. It is situated between the villages Neochori , Megali Panagia and Arnaia ....
  • Polichne
  • Potidaea
    Potidaea

    Potidaea was a colony founded by the Corinthians around 600 BC in the narrowest point in Pallene in the western point of Chalcidice in what was known as Thrace....
  • Scione
  • Scolus
  • Sermylia
  • Stageira
    Stageira

    Stageira was an ancient Greece city on the Chalcidice peninsula and is chiefly known for being the birthplace of Aristotle. The city lies a few kilometres north of the present-day village of Stagira, close to the city now called Olympias....
  • Spartolus
  • Thyssus
  • Torone
    Toroni

    Toroni , ancient form: Torone is an ancient Greek city located in the southwest edge of Sithonia peninsula in Chalkidiki, 20 km after Neos Marmaras and 3 km before Porto Koufo , one of the largest physical harbours of Greece....


Municipalities

Municipality YPES code Seat (if different) Postal code Area code
Anthemountas
Anthemountas

Anthemountas is a municipality in Chalkidiki, Greece. Population 4,540 . The seat of the municipality is in Galatista.References...
 		 5201 Galatista 630 73 2371
Arnaia
Arnaia

Arnaia or Arnea is a municipality in Chalkidiki, Greece. Population 6,183 ....
 		 5202 630 47 2372
Kallikrateia
Kallikrateia

Kallikrateia is a municipality in Halkidiki, Greece. Population 10,881 . The seat of the municipality is in Nea Kallikrateia....
 		 5204 Nea Kallikrateia 630 80 2399
Kassandra
Kassandra, Chalcidice

Kassandra is a peninsula and a municipality in Chalkidiki, Greece. Population 10,269 . The seat of the municipality is in Kassandreia....
 5205 Kassandreia
Kassandreia

Kassandreia or Cassandreia etymologically means "town in the swamps." It is the capital of the municipality of Kassandra in the center of the peninsula....
 		 630 77 2399
Moudania
Moudania, Greece

Moudania is a municipality in Chalkidiki, Greece, named after Mudanya in present Turkey. Population 17,032 . The seat of the municipality is in Nea Moudania....
 		 5206 Nea Moudania
Nea Moudania

Nea Moudania is the main town of the municipality of Moudania, Greece, with a population of 17,032 inhabitants Halkidiki's most populous town. The town is located 60 km south of Thessaloniki and is considered to be the financial and commercial centre of the whole prefecture....
 		 632 00 2373
Ormylia
Ormylia

Ormylia is a municipality in Halkidiki, Greece. Population 4,745 .References...
 		 5207 630 71 2371
Pallini
Pallini, Chalcidice

Pallini is a municipality in Chalkidiki, Greece. Population 5,884 . The seat of the municipality is in Chaniotis....
 		 5208 Chaniotis 630 85 2374
Panagia
Panagia, Chalcidice

Panagia is a municipality in Halkidiki, Greece. Population 3,897 . The seat of the municipality is in Megali Panagia....
 		 5209 Megali Panagia 620 76 2373
Polygyros
Polygyros

Polygyros is a town and Communities and Municipalities of Greece in Central Macedonia, the capital of the Prefecture of Chalkidiki. Polygyros is south of Greece Interstate 16 ....
  		5210 631 00 2371
Sithonia
Sithonia

Sithonia is a peninsula located south of the central part of Halkidiki which is also in the south-central part of the Halkidiki peninsula. The Kassandra peninsula lies to the west and the Mount Athos peninsula at the east....
 		 5211 Nikiti 630 88 2375
Stagira-Akanthos
Stagira-Akanthos

Stagira-Akanthos is a Communities and Municipalities of Greece in Chalkidiki Prefecture, Greece. Population 8,781 . The seat of the municipality is in Ierissos, and its land area is 253.373 km?....
 		 5212 Ierissos 630 72 2377
Toroni
Toroni

Toroni , ancient form: Torone is an ancient Greek city located in the southwest edge of Sithonia peninsula in Chalkidiki, 20 km after Neos Marmaras and 3 km before Porto Koufo , one of the largest physical harbours of Greece....
 		 5213 Sykia
Sykia

Sykia or Sikia may refer to a number of toponyms in Greece:*Sykia , Greece, a village in the Aitoloakarnania prefecture*Sykia , Greece, a village in the Chalkidiki prefecture...
 		 630 72 2375
Triglia
Triglia

Triglia is a municipality in Halkidiki, Greece. Population 5,888 . The seat of the municipality is in Nea Triglia....
 		 5214 Nea Triglia 630 79 2375
Zervochoria
Zervochoria

Zervochoria is a municipality in Halkidiki, Greece. Population 3,146 . The seat of the municipality is in Palaiochora....
 		 5203 Palaiochora
Palaiochora

Palaiochora is a small town in Chania prefecture. Paleochora is located 77 km south of Chania, at the southwest coastline of Crete and it?s built on a small peninsula of 400m width and 700m length....
 		 630 73 2371


See also: list of settlements in the Chalkidiki prefecture

Provinces


  • Province of Chalkidiki - Polygyros
  • Province of Arnaia
    Arnaia

    Arnaia or Arnea is a municipality in Chalkidiki, Greece. Population 6,183 ....
Note: Provinces no longer hold any legal status in Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
.

Notable Chalkidikians

  • Paeonius
    Paeonius

    Paeonius of Mende in Macedonia was a Greek sculptor of the late 5th century BC. The only work that can be definitely attributed to him is the statue of Nike discovered at Olympia, Greece....
     of Mende
    Mende (Greece)

    Mende was an ancient Greek city located in the western coast of Pallene, Chalcidice peninsula in Chalkidiki facing the coast of Pieria across the narrow Thermaic Gulf near the modern town of Kalandra....
     (late 5th c. BC) sculptor
  • Philippus of Mende, student of Plato, astronomer
  • Nicomachus
    Nicomachus (father of Aristotle)

    Nicomachus , lived c. 375 BC, was the father of Aristotle.The Suda states that he was a doctor descended from Nicomachus, son of Machaon the son of Asclepius....
    , Aristotle
    Aristotle

    Aristotle was a Greeks philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, Poetics , theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology....
    's father
  • Aristobulus of Cassandreia
    Aristobulus of Cassandreia

    Aristobulus of Cassandreia , Greeks historian, son of Aristobulus, probably a Phocian settled inCassandreia, accompanied Alexander the Great on his campaigns....
     (375 - 301 BC), historian, architect
  • Aristotle
    Aristotle

    Aristotle was a Greeks philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, Poetics , theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology....
     (384 BC in Stageira
    Stageira

    Stageira was an ancient Greece city on the Chalcidice peninsula and is chiefly known for being the birthplace of Aristotle. The city lies a few kilometres north of the present-day village of Stagira, close to the city now called Olympias....
    -322 BC), philosopher
  • Callisthenes
    Callisthenes

    Callisthenes of Olynthus was a Ancient Greece historian. He was the son of Hero and Proxenus of Atarneus, which made him the great nephew of Aristotle by his sister Arimneste....
     (360-328 BC), historian
  • Crates of Olynthus, Alexander's hydraulic engineer
  • Andronicus the Olynthian (c.370 BC) Phrourarchus of Tyre,appointed by Antigonus
  • Bubalus of Cassandreia 304 BC keles(horse) flat race Lykaia
  • Poseidippus of Cassandreia
    Poseidippus of Cassandreia

    Poseidippus of Cassandreia or Posidippus son of Cyniscus, a ancient Macedonians who lived in Athens, was a celebrated comic poet of the Greek comedy#New_Comedy....
     3th c.BC comic poet
  • Erginus (son of Simylus) from Cassandreia, citharede winner in Soteria
    Soteria (festival)

    The Soteria were ancient festivals held in many Greek cities from the IIIBC. They honoured the saviour of a danger and could be dedicated to all the gods or only one ....
      c.260 BC
  • Athanasios Stageiritis, Professor of Greek language at the Royal Academy in Vienna. Publisher of the fortnightly literary journal "Kalliope" in Vienna from 1819 to 1821
  • Kyrkos Papageorgakis -Revolutionary of 1821
  • Sokratis Malamas
    Sokratis Malamas

    Sokratis Malamas is a Greek singer and songwriter....
     (1957 in Sykia), singer
  • Manolis Mitsias (1944 in Doumpia), singer