Ormylia

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Ormylia (Greek Ορμύλια, ( f sg ); official name Dimotiki Enotita Ormylias, Δημοτική Ενότητα Ορμύλιας ) is one of four municipal districts of the municipality Polygiros on the Chalkidiki peninsula in the Greek region Central Macedonia. It originated in 1997 as an independent community within the Greek local government reform Schedio Kapodistrias by combining the previously independent municipalities and village Ormylia and Metamorfosi. The administrative center of this community was the largest town Ormylia.

Ormylia extends from the northwestern coastal Gulf of Toroni in the north in the central country of the Chalkidiki peninsula into it. The area follows the course of the river Chavrias, which flows near the village of Nisi in Kassandra's gulf and is the largest river of Halkidiki. In the low-rainfall summer months Chavrias is indeed almost dried up, his volumes of water in the other seasons allow in the plane of Chavrias intensive agriculture. The village itself is located at the outlet of Ormylia Chavrias from the southern foothills of the Cholomondas Mountains. Southwest of the town lies the settlement Ormylia Psakoudia that represents the tourist center of the municipality at the same beach.

In ancient times was located in the municipal district of the city ( polis ) Sermyle ( Sermyli ). During the era of the Byzantine Empire, the municipality came into the possession of the monasteries of Mount Athos, including the Vatopedi monastery, and was used by them as an agricultural commodity. The settlements Vatopedi and Metamorfosi arose after the Greek defeat in the Greco- Turkish War in 1922 and the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 with the associated population exchange between Greece and Turkey: Greek refugees from Asia Minor and the Black Sea formed the two localities.

Economically dominated in Ormylia agriculture in the plain of the River Chavrias. Increasing significance is also tourism.

In the area Ormylias two Greek Orthodox monasteries are: Evangelismos tis Theotokou ( convent ) and Osios Arsenius ( monastery ), whose foundation was only in the late 20th century.

Among the towns and settlements Ormylias see Polygiros (municipality ).