Kalabaka
Sign in to saveKalabaka (, Kalabáka, alternative transliterations are Kalambaka and Kalampaka) is a town and seat of the municipality of Meteora in the Trikala regional unit, part of Thessaly in Greece. The population was 11,492 at the 2021 census, of which 8,573 in the town proper. The Meteora monasteries are located near the town. Kalabaka is the northwestern terminal of the old Thessaly Railways, now part of OSE.
Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Kalabaka
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Καλαμπάκα
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipal unit
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- DE Kalambakas.svg
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Thessaly
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Trikala
- Greek Dimos.municipality
- Meteora
- Greek Dimos.pop_municunit
- 11492
- Greek Dimos.area_municunit
- 277.1
- Greek Dimos.pop_community
- 8573
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.licence
- ΤΚ
- Greek Dimos.image_skyline
- Метеора - panoramio (14).jpg
- Greek Dimos.caption_skyline
- The town of Kalabaka as seen from Meteora.
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Kalabaka (, Kalabáka, alternative transliterations are Kalambaka and Kalampaka) is a town and seat of the municipality of Meteora in the Trikala regional unit, part of Thessaly in Greece. The population was 11,492 at the 2021 census, of which 8,573 in the town proper. The Meteora monasteries are located near the town. Kalabaka is the northwestern terminal of the old Thessaly Railways, now part of OSE.
== History == A Greek inscription on the wall of one of the town's oldest churches (Saint John the Baptist) testifies to the existence of an ancient Greek settlement under the name Aiginion.