Kallimasia

Kallimasia is a town of

Chios Chios (; el, Χίος, Chíos , traditionally known as Scio in English) is the fifth largest Greek island, situated in the northern Aegean Sea. The island is separated from Turkey by the Chios Strait. Chios is notable for its exports of mastic ...

, built 13 kilometers south of the capital of the island. It was one of the most important towns of the island during the Middle Ages, it was destroyed, though, almost completely from an

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in 1881. It is built in a plain with olive trees. The sights of the region are the ruins of the medieval towers and the churches. Kallimasia has been the seat of Anemonas and

Ionia Ionia () was an ancient region on the western coast of Anatolia, to the south of present-day Izmir. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements. Never a unified state, it was named after the Ionian ...

. From Kallimasia descended two Patriarchs, Joachim II and Joachim IV, the

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Kostas Perrikos Kostas Perrikos ( el, Κώστας Περρίκος; 23 April 1905 – 4 February 1943) was a Greek Air Force officer and leader of the PEAN resistance movement in World War II. He is the father of the UN arms control Commissioner Dimitris Perri ...

, head of

PEAN The Panhellenic Union of Fighting Youths ( el, Πανελλήνιος Ένωσις Αγωνιζόμενων Νέων, ''Panellínios Énosis Agonizómenon Néon'', ΠΕΑΝ, PEAN) was a Greek Resistance organization during the Axis Occupation o ...

, the founder and first president of the Mastic Producer Association of Chios doctor Georgios Stagkoulis and the champion in discus throw and Olympic medalist

Nikolaos Syllas Nikolaos Syllas ( el, Νικόλαος Σύλλας; 30 November 1914 – 16 August 1986) was a Greek athlete who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics, in the 1948 Summer Olympics, and in the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, ...

. In Kallimasia there are the beaches: Agios Ioannis, Monolia and Agios Aimilianos. {{coord, 38, 18, N, 26, 06, E, display=title, region:GR_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki Populated places in Chios