Cassandreia

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Cassandreia (Greek: Κασσάνδρεια Kassandreia, modern transliteration: Kassandria) or Casssandrea was one of the most important cities in Ancient Macedonia founded by and named after Cassander in 316 BC located near the Ancient Greek city of Potidaea. The territory compromised the areas of Olynthus and Mekyberna to the northeast, Bottiaea to the northwest and the small isthmus of Pallene (now Kassandreia) to the east. At the end of the Roman Republic, a Roman colony was settled around 43 BC by the order of Brutus, the proconsul Q. Hortensius Hortatus. On the second colonial deduction had to intervene on a principate because the official colonial name was Colonia Iulia Augusta Cassandrensis. The colony enjoyed ius Italicum. It is mentioned in Pliny the Elder's encyclopaedia (IV, 36) and in its inscriptions.

The modern settlement of Kassandra (Kassandreia) is south of the ancient site south of the present-day canal. The ancient site of Cassandreia is not excavated. The peninsula of Kassandra lies to the south.

The canan by Nea Potidaia to the north bounds the peninsula with the rest of Chalkidiki.

Kassandra features picturesque villages, beautiful green nature filled with grasslands and forests, beaches including one in Sani, and tourist attractions.

[edit] The Peninsula

Cassandreia is also a peninsula located in the southwestern part of Chalkidiki in Greece. The peninsula is west of the Sithonia peninsula. The peninsula is located southeast of Thessaloniki. Its southernmost point is near Paliouri which is also the prefecture's southernmost point, the promontories includes the Kassandreia to the west and the Kanastraio to the east, except for Kanastraio, none of these capes marks the extremities of the peninsula except for the eastern part.

[edit] Settlements

[edit] History

The peninsula was lined with paved road in the mid-20th century. Tourism also arrived beginning after the war period of World War II and the Greek Civil War. More paved roads were added in the 1970s and the 1980s and tourism popped out. Agriculture shifted to tourism and other businesses as its primary industry in the 1980s.

On August 22, 2006, the peninsula was struck by a major forest fire (see also Forest fires in Greece, 2006) that affected the central and the northern parts of the peninsula, the day of the heatwave when temperatures soared nearly 40°C. Several houses were destroyed including villas, hotels and one campground disappeared as the natural beauty was to be erased. It burnt about 1,000 to 2,000 ha of forests including some farmlands. Aerial pictures were reported near Sani Beach inland to a point where pastures and mountain roads are located and saw smoke throughout the peninsula. It can be seen across the gulf. The cause of this tremendous fire was dry lightning occurred throughout the evening. It affected places including Sani, Skioni and more places. Power were cut to several villages. The forest fire lasted nearly two days and devastated the economy and the peninsula. All roads were closed. Villages that were affected were Sani, Nea Skioni, Sozopoli, parts of Kalandra? and Fourka and near the coastline.

[edit] References

  • F. Papazoglou, Les villes de Macédoine à l'époque romaine , Supplément du BCH 16, Athens, 1988.
  • D. Samsaris, La colonie romaine de Cassandréa en Macédoine. Colonia Iulia Augusta Cassandrensis (The Roman Colony of Cassandra in Macedonia. Colonia Iulia Augusta Cassandrensis). Dodona 16(1), 1987, 353-437.


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