The publication is bilingual, in double-column printing, with 250 chapters and 107 photographs. The contents of the book include:

• The highlighting of 31 sights and monuments of the city.
• The presentation of the parks and playgrounds of Kalamaria by district.
• Information about the Holy Diocese of Nea Krini and Kalamaria and its Temples.
• The presentation of the appointed and elected mayors.
• The presentation of 15 personalities who were born or lived for many years in Kalamaria and with their work contributed to its promotion.
• The presentation of the four honorary citizens of the Municipality of Kalamaria.
• The summary presentation of 55 associations and clubs of the Municipality.
• The metro of Kalamaria.
• The central events for the 100 years of the Asia Minor Catastrophe (May 29 and 30, 2022) which were honored with the presence of the Ecumenical Patriarch Mr. Bartholomew.
• Table with the contact details of the associations and clubs of Kalamaria.

It has 286 pages and 88 bibliographic references.

The completion of the centenary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe (1922-2022) offers the unique opportunity of national reflection on the greatest catastrophe suffered by Hellenism. 

As the vision of Greater Greece was crushed and buried definitively in the ruins of Smyrna, the displacement of almost one and a half million people from Asia Minor, Pontus and Eastern Thrace created a colossal humanitarian disaster sealed by the Treaty’s mandatory Population Exchange of Lausanne, thus definitively erasing any hope of returning to the ancestral lands. But through the uprooting, the pain for the thousands of losses, the unbearable nostalgia for the lost homelands, the painful reception, acceptance and rehabilitation of the refugees in metropolitan Greece, a new vision was born and with it the certainty that the creative and rejuvenating forces of Hellenism they were not lost. Gradually, the Greece of natives and refugees turned defeat into creation and loss into indelible memory.

This publication includes the proceedings of the 2nd Scientific Conference organized by the Historical Archive of Refugee Hellenism, on September 30 – October 2, 2016. 

The purpose of the collective work was to highlight the multifaceted and interdisciplinary historical course of the Greek Orthodox community of Constantinople, which was excluded from the Population Exchange Treaty of 1923. 26 renowned, as well as younger scholars (historians, political scientists, jurists, pedagogues, teachers, philologists, writers, journalists) participated with their texts and six Constantinopolitans with the testimonies of their experiences, while the text of the admission belongs to the president of the Ecumenical Federation of Constantinople. 

The book includes the thematic sections: 1. After the exchange: continuities, intersections and discontinuities, 2. History through the faces, 3. Education in the Greek minority, 4. Under persecution: restrictive measures, September riots, deportations, 5. Installation and integration. A new homeland, 6. Memory and its reconstruction.

The book is a travelogue of the course of Scouting in Kalamaria. Through the rich photographic material, the most important moments are presented and the contributors of this 90-year course are honored.

For ninety uninterrupted years, the values of scouting have shaped the young people of Kalamaria through various scout groups, giving them the opportunity to gain self-confidence and self-esteem with personalities that are spiritually, socially and morally sound and to engage in healthy and beneficial activities.

The book records the image of post-war Kalamaria through the description of everyday events, characteristic persons, neighborhoods and customs. The rich photographic material, selected from private collections or magazines of the time, aims to keep alive the memory of everyday life and solidarity of the residents of Kalamaria.

The classification of the material into small chapters makes it easier for the reader to directly understand the temperament of the characters of the era described. Without literary enclosures and personal positions, but with descriptiveness and simple wording, the author facilitates the reader’s approach to the text.

Proceedings of a conference organized by the Historical Archive of Refugee Hellenism of the Municipality of Kalamaria from 23 to 25 November 2012 on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Liberation of Thessaloniki. The volume includes 42 works by scientists from universities, research centers and associations in Greece and abroad. The speakers were of various disciplines such as historians, social anthropologists, political scientists, economists, lawyers, architects, urban planners, philologists, folklorists, etc. The announcements offered to everyone interested important information about Thessaloniki of the last 100 years and concerned the following sections:

• World War I. Refugees in the 1910s.
• The role of the press.
• Refugees of the interwar period. Settlement – Rehabilitation.
• Refugees of the interwar period. Charity – Social integration.
• Residential structure – Architecture.
• Identity Setting – Memory Management.
• Literature.

A book dedicated to the specific settlement of the Municipality of Kalamaria, where a large number of refugees settled. Mr. Ananias Tsirambides, Professor at the Department of Geology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Municipal Councilor of Kalamaria, was personally involved in the research and collection of the material, as well as in its processing.

The information contained herein comes from newspaper articles, archival material, resident interviews and the author’s memories. The information about individuals whose life is intertwined with the history of the settlement makes the book enjoyable and lively, while at the same time help the reader to understand their character. Through the photographs, faces, neighborhoods, scenes of daily life and social and cultural events are sketched. The book makes extensive reference to the history of the construction of the Holy Church of St Panteleimon, as well as to the foundation of the sports club ‘Admiral Votsis’.

Thessaloniki in the 19th and early 20th century was the coveted city of the Ottoman Empire, the Selanik for the Sublime Porte, but also the “Jerusalem of the Balkans” for the Jews of Europe. At the same time it constituted, together with its Macedonian inland, the “apple of discord” of the Balkan nationalisms, which with the Balkan Wars attempted to resolve the outstanding issues of the Aemos Peninsula. Since 1912, the population ratio has tended to be reversed, as the former multi-ethnic city of a declining empire was transformed into the urban environment of a nation state.

The fire of 1917 adds to the gradual population change the forced transformations that occur in the architectural landscape, which is cut off from the traditional images and past of the 19th century. However, the above changes, no matter how subversive they were in relation to the Ottoman past, would not be able to overturn the population map of the city in such a short time after its liberation.

The book was the fruit of research by the HARH and includes rich archival material (photographs, documents, newspaper articles, excerpts of oral testimonies, etc.), as well as 23 texts by the historians of the Historical Archive on the path of the club, the sporting and cultural sections that operated within its framework, the administrative and sporting factors that played an important role, but also the organized fan associations that supported Apollo.

The publication concerns the history of Kalamaria in the period 1940 – 1967. During this period the new political identity of the residents of Kalamaria was formed and developed. A decisive event was the foundation of an independent municipality.

The needs of survival did not prevent the residents of Kalamaria from being active in all areas of everyday life and from leaving their own mark in the fields of work, education, collective organization, entertainment, culture and religious life.

Kalamaria gradually ceased to be an isolated settlement of pre-war Thessaloniki and developed into an area where the basic infrastructure was being modernized. In the 1950s, the coastal zone was upgraded and from the 1960s the population composition of Kalamaria was enriched and new settlements were created.