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Salamis (Greek

Greek language

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, Modern

Modern Greek

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: Sa?aµ??a Salamína, Ancient

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
/Katharevousa

Katharevousa

Katharevousa , is a form of the Greek language conceived in the early 19th century by Greeks intellectual and revolutionary leader Adamantios Korais ....
: Sa?aµ?? Salamís) is the largest Greek

Greece

Island

An island or isle is any piece of land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls are called islets....
in the Saronic Gulf

Saronic Gulf

The Saronic Gulf or Gulf of Aegina in Greece forms part of the Aegean Sea and defines the eastern side of the isthmus of Corinth. It is the eastern terminus of the Corinth Canal, which cuts across the isthmus....
, about 1 nautical mile

Nautical mile

A nautical mile or sea mile is a unit of length. It corresponds approximately to one minute of arc of latitude along any meridian .It is a non-International System of Units unit used especially by navigators in the shipping and aviation industries....
(2 km) off-coast from Piraeus

Piraeus

Piraeus is a city in the periphery of Attica, Greece, and a municipality within Athens urban area, located 10 km southwest of its center....
and about 16 km west of Athens

Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
. Due to its roughly crescent

Crescent

In art and symbolism, a crescent is generally the shape produced when a circle disk has a segment of another circle removed from its edge, so that what remains is a shape enclosed by two circular arcs of different diameters which intersect at two points ....
shape, the island is also locally known as Koulouri, after the bread roll of this form.

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Salamis (Greek

Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
, Modern

Modern Greek

Ancient Greek

Katharevousa

Greece

Island

An island or isle is any piece of land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls are called islets....
in the Saronic Gulf

Saronic Gulf

Nautical mile

Piraeus

Piraeus is a city in the periphery of Attica, Greece, and a municipality within Athens urban area, located 10 km southwest of its center....
and about 16 km west of Athens

Athens

Crescent

Salamis Bay

The Salamis Bay is a bay that connects with the Saronic Gulf to the west. The total length is approximately 10 km long from north east to west and about 4 km wide from north to south....
, which opens into the Saronic Gulf. The island's main port, Paloukia, in size second only to Piraeus, is on the eastern side.

History

The name Salamis is probably derived from Salam (shalam), Phoenician for peace, under which it was mentioned in Homer

Homer

Homer is traditionally held to be the author of the ancient Greek language epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as of the Homeric Hymns....
's writings. Some sources, however, say it was named after the nymph

Nymph

In Greek mythology, a nymph is any member of a large class of mythological entities in human form. They were typically associated with a particular location or landform....
Salamis

Salamis (mythology)

Salamis was a nymph in Greek mythology, the daughter of the river god Asopus and Metope, daughter of the Ladon, another river god. She was carried away by Poseidon to the island which was named Salamis Island , whereupon she bore the god a son Cychreus who became king of the island....
, according to legend the mother of Cychreus, the first king of the island).

Salamis was probably first colonised by Aegina

Aegina

Aegina is one of the Greek islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, 17 miles from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born in and ruled the island....
and later occupied by Megara

Megara

Megara is an ancient city in Attica, Greece. It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis Island, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens....
, but became an Athenian

Athens

Solon

Solon was an Athens statesman, lawmaker, and lyric poetry. He is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic and moral decline in Archaic period in Greece Athens....
or Peisistratos

Peisistratos (Athens)

Peisistratus was a tyrant of Athens from 546 to 527/8 BCE. His legacy lies primarily in his institution of the Panathenaic Festival and the consequent first attempt at producing a definitive version for Homeric epics....
, following the war between Athens and Megara around 600 BC.

Salamis island is known for the Battle of Salamis

Battle of Salamis

The Battle of Salamis , was a naval battle fought between an Alliance of Greece city-states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia in September 480 BC in the straits between the mainland and Salamis Island, an island in the Saronic Gulf near Athens....
, the decisive naval victory of the allied Greek

Greece

Themistocles

Themistocles was an Ancient Athens soldier and statesman. As archon in 493 BC, he convinced the Athenians that a powerful fleet was needed to protect them against the Persians....
, over the Persian Empire

Persian Empire

The 'Persian Empire' was a series of successive Iranian or Persianization empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the original Persian homeland, and beyond in Southwest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and the Caucasus....
in 480 BC. It is said to be the birthplace of Ajax

Ajax (mythology)

Ajax or Aias was a Greek mythology, the son of Telamon and Periboea and king of Salamis Island. He plays an important role in Homer's Iliad and in the Epic Cycle, a series of epic poems about the Trojan War....
and Euripides

Euripides

Euripides was the last of the three great tragedy of classical Athens . Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias....
, the latter's birth being popularly placed on the day of the battle. In modern times, it is home to Salamis Naval Base

Salamis Naval Base

The Salamis Naval Base or Naval Dock Salamis is the largest Greece naval base. It is located close to the major population centre of Athens and Piraeus and occupies an area at the Northeast of Salamis Island and an area in Amphiali and Skaramaga, across the sea channel which connects the Gulf of Elefsis to Saronic Gulf....
, headquarters for the Hellenic Navy

Hellenic Navy

The Hellenic Navy is the Navy force of Greece, part of the Military of Greece. The modern Greek navy has its roots in the naval forces of various Aegean Islands, which fought in the Greek War of Independence....
.

The oldest known counting board

Counting board

The counting board is precursor of the abacus, and the earliest known form of a counting device . Counting boards were made of stone or wood, and the counting was done on the board with beads, or pebbles etc....
was discovered on the Greek island of Salamis in 1899. It is thought to have been used by the Babylonians in about 300 B.C. and is more of a gaming board rather than a calculating device. It is marble, about 150 x 75 x 4.5 cm, and has carved Greek symbols and parallel grooves.

During the German

Germany

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invasion of Greece in World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, the harbor was bombed by the Luftwaffe

Luftwaffe

is a generic German term for an air force. It is also the official name for two of the four historic German air forces, the Wehrmacht air arm founded in 1933 and disbanded in 1946; and the current Bundeswehr air arm founded in 1956....
on April 23, 1941, sinking the Greek battleships Kilkis

Greek Battleship Kilkis

Kilkis was a 13,000 ton Mississippi class battleship Greek battleship named for a crucial Battle of Kilkis-Lahanas of the Second Balkan War. Laid down for the United States Navy in 1903, she served in that navy as the USS Mississippi from 1908 until 1914, when both Mississippi-class ships were purchased from the United States by Greece...
and Lemnos

Greek Battleship Limnos

Limnos, sometimes spelled Lemnos , was a 13,000 ton Mississippi class battleship Greek battleship named for a crucial naval Naval Battle of Lemnos of the First Balkan War....
.

In the 1960s and 1970s, during the military junta

Greek military junta of 1967-1974

The Greek military junta of 1967–1974, alternatively "The Regime of the Colonels" , or in Greece "The Junta", and "The Seven Years" are terms used to refer to a series of right-wing military governments that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974....
period, changes in land legislation allowed the subdivision of land plots. This opened the island to massive unplanned and unregulated urban and suburban development, including many weekend homes, especially along the northern and eastern coasts. The lack of corresponding investment in infrastructure, combined with heavy industry, has led to sea and beach pollution on this side of the island. There are, however, ongoing initiatives such as help from the 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....
’s Cohesion Fund

Structural Funds and Cohesion Funds

Structural Funds and Cohesion Funds are funds allocated by the European Union for two related purposes: support for the poorer regions of Europe and support for integrating European infrastructure especially in the transport sector....
toward improving sewerage by 2008.

Geography and administration

Salamis has an area of 36 square miles; its highest point is Mavrovouni (1325 feet). As of the mid-20th century, the majority of the inhabitants were Arvanite. According to Strabo

Strabo

Strabo was a Ancient Greeks history, geography and philosophy....
, the ancient capital was at the south of the island;, and in classical times it was to the east, on the Kamatero Peninsula overlooking the Strait of Salamis; in modern times it is on the west.

A significant part of Salamis Island is rocky and mountainous. On the southern part of the island a pine forest is located, which is unusual for western Attica. Unfortunately, this forest is often a target for fires. While the inland inhabitants are mainly employed within the agricultural sector, the majority of Salamis' inhabitants work in maritime occupations (fishing, ferries, and the island's shipyards) or commute to work in Athens. The maritime industry is focused on the north-east coast of the island at the port of Paloukia (?a?????a), where ferries to mainland Greece are based, and in the dockyards of Ampelakia

Ampelakia

Ampelakia , also Ambelakia or Abelakia is the capital city of the second Communities and Municipalities of Greece of Salamis Island, Greece, and is located in northern Piraeus Prefecture in Central Greece....
and the north side of the Kynosoura (Greek

Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
: ????s???a = "dog tail") peninsula.

Salamis Island is very popular for holiday and weekend visits from the Athens and Piraeus area; its population rises to 300,000 in peak season of which ca. 31,000 are permanent inhabitants. This supports a strong service industry sector, with many cafes, bars, ouzeries
Ouzo

Ouzo is an anise-flavored distilled beverage that is widely consumed in Greece. It is similar to pastis , Sambuca , Mastika , Raki , Salmiakki Koskenkorva or Arak ....
, taverna

Taverna

Taverna refers to a small restaurant serving Cuisine of Greece, not to be confused with "tavern". The Greek language word is ta????a and is originally derived from the Latin language word taberna ....
s and consumer goods shops throughout the island. On the south of the island, away from the port, there are a number of less developed areas with good swimming beaches including those of Aianteio, Maroudi, Perani, Peristeria, Kolones, Saterli, Selenia and Kanakia.

Salamis Island belongs to the Piraeus Prefecture

Piraeus Prefecture

Piraeus is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is part of the peripheries of Greece of Attica and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture super-prefectures of Greece....
of the Attica

Attica

Attica is a Peripheries of Greece in Greece, containing Athens, the capital of Greece. Attica is subdivided into the prefectures of Greece of Athens Prefecture, Piraeus Prefecture, East Attica and West Attica....
periphery

Peripheries of Greece

The peripheries are the official regional administrative divisions of Greece. There are 13 peripheries , which are further subdivided into 54 Prefectures of Greece....
.

It is divided into two municipalities

Communities and Municipalities of Greece

The municipalities and communities of Greece are one of several levels of government within the organizational structure of that country. Thirteen regions called Peripheries of Greece form the largest unit of government beneath the State....
: Salamina

Salamina (city)

Salamina City , also Salamis City or Salamis , is the largest town and Communities and Municipalities of Greece on Salamis Island in Greece....
and Ampelakia

Ampelakia

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....
municipal election of October 2006. Spyros Sofras is the first time as mayor of Salamina, and Marios Travlos is the mayor of Ampelakia for a second time.

In the Municipality of Salamina, which has a land area of 80.992 km² and a 2001 census population of 30,962, the chief population centre is the city of Salamina (also called Salamis, Salamis City or Koulouris, pop. 25,730 in 2001), consisting of the districts Alonia, Agios Minas, Agios Dimitrios, Agios Nikolaos, Boskos, Nea Salamina, Tsami and Vourkari. Its second-largest town is Aiánteio (pop. 4,456). In the Municipality of Ampelákia, which has a land area of 15.169 km² and a population of 7,060, the largest towns are Ampelákia (pop. 4,537) and Selínia (2,346).

Population

Year	Municipal population	Municipal and Island population	Population of Capital
1981	20,807	25,215	5,143
1991	22,567	27,582	6,316
2001	30,022	37,091	9,259
2007

Villages in the Municipality of Salamina

Paloukia

Paloukia (Greek: ?a?????a) (Population 1.695) which means Poles in English, is located in the northeast of the island. Many ferryboats, fishing vessels and port police crafts dock in this harbor. In Paloukia is based the port police department of Salamina. The visitors who come to Salamis Island first arrive at Paloukia with ferryboats that run across Perama or Piraeus.

The area is close to Salamis Naval Base

Salamis Naval Base

Aianteio

Aianteio or Aiantio or Eantio (Greek: ????t???) , (Modern Greek : ????te??) older forms Aiantio, Aiandion, Eantion and Eandion (transliteration may vary) is a large village in the southwestern part of Salamis Island and is named after Ajax, from Homer's Iliad, "King of the Salamis". The village in the medieval times and until the late-20th century was known as Moulki.

In the region, there are churches of the 12th and the 11th century such as Saint John and Saint Dimitrios. Interesting places to visit are:

the oldest church in the island, Saint John the "Kalyvitis", which dates back in the 10th century and has remarkable hagiographies, and
the monastery of Saint Nicolas which dates back in the 18th century and is situated in a forest.

Batsi

Batsi or Mpatsi (Greek, Modern: ?p?ts?, Ancient/Katharevousa: -on), older forms Batsion is a little community (population 212) in the north of Salamis in the municipality of Salamis placed at the foot of a piney mountain, located about 6 to 8 km E of Megara.

In the mountain, there is a cave of archeological interest that has not been investigated yet. In the winter there are few tourists; it is more popular with tourists from Athens during the summer months. It is a nice place with the beaches next to the pine-trees making an interesting combination.

Kaki Vigla

Kaki Vigla (Greek: ?a?? ????a), (translated Bad View in Greek) is a small community (Population 236) located at the south of Salamis Island, near to Aianteio .

The beaches of Kaki Vigla are clean and the area has pine and olive trees.

Agios Georgios

A new village, founded in 1960

Peristeria

Peristeria (Greek: ?e??st???a) (Population 456) is a small village at the southeast of Salamis Island, 45 km from Salamis City. It took its name from the bird of peace, the pingeon (Greek: pe??st???), because it is so calm, peaceful and isolated place, far off from the cars and from noise. Another interpretation says that its name may be derived from the doves which were living and had nests in the area.

The area has a marina, which has yachts and piscatorials. The beaches of Peristeria are the cleanest of Salamis. The village is near to the Cave of Euripides.

Psili Ammos

Psili Ammos (Greek: ???? ?µµ??) (Population 271), which means Fine Sand is so named because it is covered with sand. The area is located at the northwest of the island opposite of Elefsina. In the area there is one of the oldest landmarks, a church building of island , the chantry of Saint Grigorios (Saint Gregory).

Steno

Steno (Greek: Ste??) (Population 985), which means Narrow in Greek, is a small community in the northwest of Salamis Island. The area is separated from Fanaromeni Monastery by a hill with shrubs and pine trees. The area is adjacent to the bay of Agios Georgios. Steno has wide and well-planned roads.

Vasilika

Vasilika (Greek: ?as?????) (Population 4.264) which means Royally is a big village in Salamis Island, located in the northwest of the island. Vasilika is the third area in Salamis by population after Salamis City and Aianteio. Vasilika has a sandy large beach apt for swimming.

Xeno

Xeno (Greek: ????) (Population 786) which means Foreign in English is located at the northwest of the island. The area took this name because the first residents who came in Xeno were not from Salamis but from the close areas of Pireaus.

Villages in the Municipality of Ampelakia

Kynosoura

Kynosoura or Kinosoura (Greek: ????s???a), which means the tail of dog (Greek: ?????-????) in Ancient and Modern Greek, is a small peninsula at Salamis Island, located in the east of island. The area probably took its name, because the area is long and oblong, such as a dog' s tail. At the south side of area there are a few houses (Population 69). At the north there is a dockyard, which constructs and fixes any type of ship like: oilers, transports, containers etc .

Selinia

Selinia (Greek: Se????a)(Population 2.523) is one of the resorts of Salamis Island, Greece, located a few kilometers southeast of Salamis city . Selinia use to be the weekend resort of many Athenians due to its proximity to Piraeus and Athens. Selinia also features restaurants and taverns.

Geography

Its geography includes residential areas around the area and farmlands in its outskirts. The mountains that features grasslands and barren land along with forests dominates the outer areas.

Panorama

Selinia offers prestigious views of the area and its beach. It also offers nice views of Athens and Piraeus along with its harbor and the southern suburbs, it also views the nearby mountains as well as Aigaleo and Hymettus. The island of Aigina can be seen in the southern parts.

Culture

Famous mythological and ancient people

Ajax the Great
Ajax (mythology)

Ajax or Aias was a Greek mythology, the son of Telamon and Periboea and king of Salamis Island. He plays an important role in Homer's Iliad and in the Epic Cycle, a series of epic poems about the Trojan War....
, the legendary king of Salamis island, son of Telamon and half-brother of Teucer
Cychreus
Cychreus (mythology)

Cychreus, in Greek mythology, was the son of Poseidon and Salamis , daughter of the river god Asopus. He became the king of Salamis Island, married the nymph Stilbe, and became the father of Chariclo, Chiron's wife....
, the first king of Salamis Island
Euripides
Euripides

Euripides was the last of the three great tragedy of classical Athens . Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias....
, tragedian
Tragedy

Tragedy is a form of The arts based on human suffering that offers its audience pleasure. While most cultures have developed forms that provoke this paradoxical response, tragedy refers to a specific Poetic tradition of drama that has played a unique and important role historically in the self-definition of Western culture....
(485 or 480 B.C. - 406 B.C.)
Telamon
Telamon

In Greek mythology, Telamon , son of the king Aeacus, of Aegina, and Endeis and brother of Peleus, accompanied Jason as one his Argonauts, and was present at the hunt for the Calydonian Boar....
, the king of Salamis Island , father of Ajax the Great and Teucer
Teucer
Teucer

In Greek mythology Teucer, also Teucrus or Teucris , was the son of King Telamon of Salamis Island and his second wife Hesione, daughter of King Laomedon of Troy....
, the half-brother of Ajax the Great, son of Telamon, warrior of Trojan War
Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta....
, and founder of the city-state
City-state

A city-state is an independent country whose territory consists solely of a single major city and the area immediately surrounding it. Examples include the city-states of ancient Greece , the Phoenician cities of Canaan , the Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia , the Mayans of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica , the central Asian cities along the Silk Roa...
of Salamis
Salamis, Cyprus

Salamis was an ancient city-state on the east coast of Cyprus, at the mouth of the river Pedieos, 6 km north of modern Famagusta....
, Cyprus
Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is an island country situated in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece, west of Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, south of Turkey and north of Egypt....
.

Modern celebrities

Georgios Karaiskakis
Georgios Karaiskakis

Georgios Karaiskakis was a famous Greeks klepht, armatoloi, military commander, and a hero of the Greek War of Independence....
(c.1780-1827), Greek War of Independence
Greek War of Independence

The Greek War of Independence was a successful war of independence waged by the Greek revolutionaries between 1821 and 1829, with later assistance from several Europe powers, against the Ottoman Empire, who were assisted by their vassal state, the Egypt under Muhammad Ali and his successors....
hero, is buried on Salamis.
Dimitrios Mpogris
Dimitrios Mpogris

Dimitrios Mpogris or Bogris was a famous Greece playwright of Greeks theater. He was born in Salamis Island in 1890. He studied in Athens and Paris natural sciences....
(1890-1964), playwright
Playwright

A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors or they may be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance....
Polychronis Lempesis (1848-1913), painter
Painting

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Angelos Sikelianos
Angelos Sikelianos

Angelos Sikelianos was a modern Greece poet and playwright. One of Greece's most important 20th-century lyric poets, he emphasized national history, religious symbolism, and universal harmony in poems such as The Light-Shadowed, Prologue to Life, Mother of God, and Delphic Utterance....
(1884–1951), poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
and playwright
Playwright

A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors or they may be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance....
, whose cottage was near the Monastery of Faneromeni.
Giorgos Papasideris
Giorgos Papasideris

Giorgos Papasideris was a Greece country singer, composer and lyricist. After leaving elementary school, he spent his entire career working professionally in the field of traditional Greek folk music, producing many popular recordings....
(1902-1977), country singer, composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
and lyricist
Lyricist

A lyricist is a writer who specializes in song lyrics, usually paid for by a band to write a custom song. A singer who writes the lyrics to songs is a singer-lyricist....
Memos Mpegnis
Memos Mpegnis

Memos Mpegnis is a Greece actor.He plays in Hellenic televisual series and theatre . He knows to plays excellent piano . He played in many television....
(1974-), actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
Giorgos Vasileiou, actor, former representative of the Hellenic Parliament
Hellenic Parliament

The Hellenic Parliament is the Parliament of Greece, located in the Parliament House, overlooking Syntagma Square in Athens, Greece. It is a unicameral legislature of 300 members, elected for a four-year term....
and councilman of the Salamina municipality, has his permanent residence in the Batsi area.

Education

Salamis island has eleven primary schools (ten public and one private), four high schools and four lycees. The majority of students are proficient in school, and usually the pupils (above age 13) have acquired diplomas and certificates in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
, French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
or in German

German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
like ECCE, FCE

First Certificate in English

The First Certificate in English is one of the exams available from University of Cambridge ESOL examination. Its possession proves one's adequacy in the English language, and its successful completion means that one is able to interact socially efficiently....
, CPE

Certificate of Proficiency in English

The Certificate of Proficiency in English or CPE is the most advanced general English exam provided by the University of Cambridge. The English level of those who have passed the CPE is supposed to be similar to that of a fairly educated native speaker of English....
, ECPE and others. Many students from Salamis island also possess many computer skills. Many students also study abroad, usually in countries such as the United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, Germany

Germany

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
. In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the pupils went to Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
for studies since it was close to Greece

Greece

Recreational areas

On Salamis island, a visitor can find many bars, cafeterias, beaches, shops, with different views of Salamis Bay. The main cafeterias and bars are based at the area of Agios Nikolaos, which is at the west suburbs of Salamis city. The district took its name from the homonymous church. Taverns and inns are in every place of the island with their local food and dishes. The shops are opened from 8:00 up until 2:00 in the morning and at 5:30 to 9:00 in the afternoons during weekdays (also open from 9:00 to 1:30 in the mornings and 6:00 to 8:30 in the afternoons during Saturdays). Salamina has a plethora of shops for clothes, souvenirs, appliances, vehicles, and computers.

Sports

Salamis island has two football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....
teams, Aias (Ajax) Salaminas

Aias Salamina F.C.

Aias Salaminas F.C. or Aias Salamina F.C. is a Greek football team founded in 1931. In the 1960s and 1970s it played in high leagueas against the likes of Olympiakos CFP, Panathinaikos F.C., AEK Athens F.C....
and Ampelakiakos F.C.

Local newspapers and magazines

Salaminiaki Protoporia (Salaminian Vanguard)
Anatropes (Tippings )
I Enotita tis Salaminas (The Unity of Salamis)
I Nea Salamina (The New Salamis)
I Foni tis Salaminas (The Voice of Salamis)
Neo Ithos tis Salaminas (New Morale of Salamis)
Apopsi (Opinion)
Palmos tis Salaminas (Pulse of Salamis)
Athlitikoi Palmoi (Athletic Vibrations)
Politis me dikaioma ( Citizen with rights)
Sports Week Salamina
30 Imeres tis Salaminas (30 Days of Salamina)

Landmarks

Landmark	Year of construction	Location
Faneromeni Monastery	15th century	Faneromeni
Chantry of Saint George	around 1250	Agios Georgios
Euripideio Theatre	1993	in suburbs of Salamis City (in hill Patris)
Church of Saint Dimitrios	1806	center of Salamis City (in hononymous district)
The Cave of Euripides The Cave of Euripides The Cave of Euripides is a ten-chamber cave in Peristeria on Salamis Island, Greece, and the subject of archaeology investigation. Its name comes from its long reputation as the place where the playwright Euripides came for sanctuary to write his tragedy....	450 BC	at south Salamis Island (near Peristeria)
The Cottage of Angelos Sikelianos	1935	Faneromeni
The Stone Lighthouse	1901	Peristeria
The bust of Georgios Karaiskakis	1982	center of Salamis City (in Vourkari district)
The Windmills	19th century	in suburbs of Salamis City (in a hill)
Chantry of Prophet Elias	early of 20th century	Salamis City (in a stone hill)
Chantry of Saint Grygorios	12th century	Psili Ammos
The Stony small Theater	1990	Selinia
The City Hall of Salamis	2000	Salamis City
The Monastery of Saint Nicolaos	17th century	at south Salamis Island (near Kanakia)
The Church of Saint John the Kalyvitis	11th century	at south Salamis Island (near Kanakia)
The Folklore Museum	2000	it ' s lodging at Salamis City Hall
The Mansion of Galeos Family	19th century	at Salamis center (at Agios Minas district)
The Church of Saint Minas	1869	at Salamis City (at Agios Minas district)

Sister Cities

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Salamis Island

History

Geography and administration

Population

Villages in the Municipality of Salamina

Paloukia

Aianteio

Batsi

Kaki Vigla

Agios Georgios

Peristeria

Psili Ammos

Steno

Vasilika

Xeno

Villages in the Municipality of Ampelakia

Kynosoura

Selinia

Culture

Famous mythological and ancient people

Modern celebrities

Education

Recreational areas

Sports

Local newspapers and magazines

Landmarks

Sister Cities

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See also

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