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Kilkis
A
town of 25,000 inhabitants, one hour by bus from
Thessaloniki
Kilkis
(Κιλκίς in
Greek)
(also known as Kukuš or Kukush in
Slavic languages)
is a small provincial city in
Central Macedonia,
Greece.
It had a population of 16,000 citizens in
2001.
It is also the capital city of the local prefecture (or
nomos) and the capital of one of the two local provinces
(or eparhia) of its prefecture.
The city was
ruled by the
Ottoman Empire
before being taken by
Bulgaria
in the
First Balkan War
of
1912.
In the
Second Balkan War
of
1913,
the Greek army captured the city after a three-day battle
between
June 19-June
21. Although costly, with
over 5,000 casualties on the Greek side and 7,000 on the
Bulgarian, the Greek victory proved a decisive step towards
victory in the war. Kilkis itself was badly damaged by the
battle, and its ethnic composition changed markedly as its
Slav inhabitants fled or were expelled. They were largely
replaced after
1922
by Greeks expelled from
Asia Minor.
The
significance of the
Battle of Kilkis-Lahanas
can be appreciated by the fact that Greece named its only
battleship after the city. However, the Kilkis -
formerly the
USS Mississippi
- was sunk by a German
Junkers Ju 87
(Stuka) dive-bomber on
April 23,
1941,
in the third week of the invasion of Greece by
Nazi Germany.
The city of Kilkis came under Bulgarian rule in
1943
when the Bulgarian zone of occupation was expanded to
include the prefectures of Kilkis and
Chalcidice.
The Bulgarians pursued a policy of "Bulgarianisation" with
considerable brutality and intended to annex the region to
Bulgaria, but were forbidden from doing so by their German
allies, who feared destabilizing Greece if the Bulgarians
proceeded. The region became a major center for partisan
resistance activity before being liberated in
1944.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilkis
Vacancies
in Kilkis
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