Ammouliani
Amouliani (Greek Αμουλιανή, ( f sg ) ) or Ammouliani ( Αμμουλιανή ) is an inhabited Greek island in the Gulf Singitischen in the northern Aegean. It has an area of approximately 12 square kilometers with a maximum length of 6 kilometers and a maximum width of up to 3.5 kilometers. It lived 2011 529 inhabitants constantly on the island, it is thus the only inhabited island in the Regional District Chalkidiki and also the most geographically largest island of the islands around the Chalkidiki peninsula. By belonging to her two Drenia Islands Penna and Artemis Amouliani forms the locality Amouliani ( Δημοτική Κοινότητα Αμμουλιανής ) in the municipality of Stagira - Acanthus ( Δημοτική Ενότητα Σταγίρων - Ακάνθου ) the municipality Aristotelis.
Amouliani is located in the north of Singitischen Gulf (Gulf of Agion Oros ), about 2.5 km south ( 3.5 km based on the location and port Amouliani ) its northernmost point on the coast of the small settlement Trypiti. The settlement Ouranoupoli is located approximately 3 km east of the southern tip of Amouliani and about 5 km south-east of the village Amouliani. Distance to Thessaloniki in the north- west of a straight line about 90 km, to the Greek capital of Athens is the crow flies is 260 km away. The next point of Sithonia peninsula in the west of the island Amouliani Diaporos in Vourvourou at a distance of about 15 km.
The longitudinal axis of the island runs from northwest to southeast, and varies greatly narrows the width of the island from northwest to southeast. The island therefore has the rough shape of a right-wing down with its tip triangle with sides of unequal length: with the removal of the northernmost point to the southernmost point of its west coast is at approximately 6 km longer than the distance of the northernmost point to the southernmost point of their East Coast about 4 km. The north of the island is formed by an approximately 3 km from West southwest to east-northeast running coast, while ending in a narrow peninsula in the south Amouliani. Therefore Amouliani has in the north to its greatest width between the Western Cape situated Kokino and the eastern Cape Trigona. Is the only place and port of the island on the northern coast of the island: Amouliani. The narrowest part of Amouliani is 1.4 km south of the village and is bounded by the Alikes beach in the west and the Glastri - beach to the east. The two Drenia Islands Penna and Artemis are the eastward inclined longitudinal axis of the island Amouliani southeast and southwest of the town of Ouranoupoli: they are both uninhabited and smaller by a multiple than Amouliani. Amouliani as the Drenia Islands by flat terrain: no point on the island rises more than 90 m above sea level. The small Aliki Lake is located at the narrowest point of the island in west-east direction: this salt lake is used for sea salt production, in which from the surrounding sea water artificially supplied through a pipeline.
The island has been inhabited Amouliani in its present form since 1922. Had to leave Greek refugees from the village Pasaliman the Sea of Marmara, the Pasaliman as a result of the Greek defeat in the Greco- Turkish War in 1922 and the subsequent agreed in the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 between Greece and Turkey " population exchange ", settled on Amouliani and founded the Main place. Before 1922, the island served as an agricultural good to the monasteries of Mount Athos, which cultivated on Amouliani figs, wine and olives. Only in 1973 was the electrification of the island.
The nearest airport is Thessaloniki. Of the places Trypiti and Ouranoupoli on the west coast of the Athos peninsula ferry connections to Amouliani. Tourism is now the most important economic factor of Amouliani. Due to this the number of people is increasing on the island in the summer up to 5,000. In the resort, as well as on the beaches there are several hotels, private accommodations and taverns.