Kymi, Greece

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Kymi (Greek Κύμη [k ʲ imi ], ( f sg ) ) is a small town on the east coast of the Greek island of Euboea with almost 4,000 inhabitants.

By 2010, they also formed a community, with four other municipalities rose to mark the Kallikratis program in the newly created municipality Kymi - Aliveri and since then a district of the same forms.

The town of Kymi is at about 250 m above sea level. The city of Kyme of antiquity, whose roots go far back into antiquity, may have been its name to the oldest Greek colony of Cumae in southern Italy. Today, the town is dominated by the Greek domestic tourism, particularly as a seaside resort and marina for holidaymakers from the Athens metropolitan area and for Greeks with roots from Kymi. Thus, the population in the summer reach some 20,000 inhabitants. Kymi has the only harbor on the east coast of the island, from here there are ferry services to the island of Skyros and the Northern Sporades.

To the south -lying village of Kymi Oxylithos heard ( Οξύλιθος, ( m. sg. ) ), Which as the name ( " sharp stone " ) says, on a slope of a pointed hill of volcanic origin.

Kymi is the birthplace of the physician George Papanicolaou Nicolas.