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Kalamaki (Greek: Καλαμάκι) is the name of a beach resort town on the Greek island of Zakynthos. It is located approximately 3 km northeast of the busy resort of Laganas, although despite the close proximity it maintains a much more relaxed atmosphere than its neighbour. It has experienced rapid growth in recent years, due to the growing ...
Zakynthos (also spelled Zakinthos; Greek: Ζάκυνθος, romanized: Zákynthos [ˈzacinθos] ⓘ; Italian: Zacinto [dzaˈtʃinto]) or Zante (/ ˈ z æ n t i /, US also / ˈ z ɑː n t eɪ /, [3] [4] Italian:; Greek: Τζάντε, romanized: Tzánte; from the Venetian form, traditionally Latinized as Zacynthus) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea.
Apart from the official name Zakynthos, it is also called Chora (i.e. the Town), a common denomination in Greece when the name of the island itself is the same as the name of the principal town. The municipal unit of Zákynthos lies in the easternmost part of the island and has a land area of 45.79 square kilometres (17.68 square miles) [ 3 ...
Kalamaki is the Greek word for a small reed, and thus for a skewer or drinking straw, and may refer to: an alternative name for souvlaki; places in Greece: Kalamaki, Attica, a neighborhood of Alimos in South Athens; Kalamaki, a village in the community of Limnochori, Achaea; Kalamaki, Zakynthos, a resort town on the island of Zakynthos
The airport opened in 1972. [4] An expansion of the airport's apron area to 35,100 m 2 was completed in 2003, and a new 22,150 m 2 terminal building was completed in 2008.. In December 2015, the privatization of Zakynthos International Airport and 13 other regional airports of Greece was finalized with the signing of the agreement between the Fraport AG/Copelouzos Group joint venture and the ...
Kalamaki beach can mean: Kalamaki beach (Crete), a beach on the Greek island of Crete; Kalamaki beach, a beach on the Greek island of Zakythos that is part of the ...
Before being bought by Levante Ferries it belonged to Zante Ferries and was operating with the same name it has now. [10] Kefalonia is the fourth ship of Levante Ferries. Before being bought by Levante Ferries it belonged to Kefalonian Lines. Kefalonia operated for more than 20 years in the route Patra-Sami-Ithaca which made it really favorable ...
A substantial Christian community of Greeks lived in Kalkan until the 1920s and the town was called Kalamaki. [5] They left in 1923 during the exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey after the Greco-Turkish War and emigrated mainly to Attica, where they founded the new town of Kalamaki. Abandoned Greek houses can still be seen at ...