Kalloni
Sign in to saveKalloni () is a town in the west-central part of the island of Lesbos, Greece. It is the seat of the West Lesbos municipality and the Kalloni municipal unit within it. Prior to 2011 the current municipal unit was a municipality. The name also existed in ancient times, though the conventional transcription of the classical name in English is "Callone".
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Place details
- Locality
- Καλλονή
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Βόρειου Αιγαίου
- Country
- Ελλάς
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Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Kalloni
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Καλλονή
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipal unit
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- DE Kallonis.svg
- Greek Dimos.map_caption
- Location within the regional unit
- Greek Dimos.periph
- North Aegean
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Lesbos
- Greek Dimos.municipality
- West Lesbos
- Greek Dimos.pop_municunit
- 7762
- Greek Dimos.pop_community
- 2161
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.area_municunit
- 241.9
- Greek Dimos.elevation
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- Greece
- Population
- +1978
- Elevation
- +0
- Capital of
- West Lesvos Municipality
- Official website
- www.kallonh.gr
- Image
- Flickr - ronsaunders47 - Working boats in a Lesbos harbour..jpg
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Kalloni () is a town in the west-central part of the island of Lesbos, Greece. It is the seat of the West Lesbos municipality and the Kalloni municipal unit within it. Prior to 2011 the current municipal unit was a municipality. The name also existed in ancient times, though the conventional transcription of the classical name in English is "Callone".
It has a land area of 241.946 km². At the 2021 census it had a population of 7,762 inhabitants. The municipal seat was the town of Kalloní. The unit's largest other towns are Agra, Parákoila, Dáfia, Fília, Skalochóri, Anemotia, and Kerámi. Kalloni was known as Kalonya during Ottoman rule, when it was a nahiya (township) center in the Molova kaza of the Midilli sanjak. Lesbos became part of the Kingdom of Greece in 1912.