Nea Karvali ( el, Νέα Καρβάλη) is a village and a
community
A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, tow ...
of the
Kavala municipality.
Most of the inhabitants are descendants of
Cappadocian Greeks
Cappadocian Greeks also known as Greek Cappadocians ( el, Έλληνες-Καππαδόκες, Ελληνοκαππαδόκες, Καππαδόκες; tr, Kapadokyalı Rumlar) or simply Cappadocians are an ethnic Greek community native to the ...
who arrived from Karvali (today
Güzelyurt
Güzelyurt, formerly Gelveri (Cappadocian Greek: Καρβάλη), is a town and district of Aksaray Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, at a distance of from the city of Aksaray. According to 2000 census, population of the distric ...
, Turkey) following the
Greek-Turkish population exchange
The 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey ( el, Ἡ Ἀνταλλαγή, I Antallagí, ota, مبادله, Mübâdele, tr, Mübadele) stemmed from the "Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations" signed at ...
in 1924.
Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of
Kavala
Kavala ( el, Καβάλα, ''Kavála'' ) is a city in northern Greece, the principal seaport of eastern Macedonia and the capital of Kavala regional unit.
It is situated on the Bay of Kavala, across from the island of Thasos and on the Egnat ...
, of which it was a municipal district.
The 2011 census recorded 2,160 inhabitants in the village and 2,225 inhabitants in the community.
The community of Nea Karvali covers an area of 46.297 km
2.
Administrative division
The community of Nea Karvali consists of three separate settlements:
*
Ano Lefki (population 17)
*
Lefki (population 48)
*Nea Karvali (population 2,160)
The aforementioned population figures are as of 2011.
See also
*
List of settlements in the Kavala regional unit
This is a list of settlements in the Kavala regional unit in Greece:
* Agiasma
* Agios Andreas
* Agios Kosmas
* Akropotamos
* Amisiana
* Amygdaleonas
* Ano Lefki
* Antifilippoi
* Avli
* Avramylia
* Chalkero
* Chrysochori
* Chrysokastr ...
References
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Populated places in Kavala (regional unit)
Kavala