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Kilkis

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Central Macedoni, Greece
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About Kilkis

Kilkis is an industrial metropolis in Central Macedonia, Greece. As of 2011 there had been 22,914 people living inside the city proper, 28,745 humans dwelling inside the municipal unit, and 51,926 inside the municipality of Kilkis. It is likewise the capital city of the local unit of Kilkis. Findings dating back to as early because the Bronze and Iron Age were excavated in the location of Kilkis, which include historical tombs of the 2nd millennium BC. In classical antiquity, the wider region of Kilkis became dominated by using the kingdom of Macedon.

At the time, Kilkis become within the middle of a region known as Krestonia. When Phillip II of Macedon visited Krestonia, the locals presented him olives from Krestonia valley, some thing that he had in no way eaten before. Kilkis hosts the soccer club Kilkisiakos F.C. With earlier presence in second-tier department of Greek championship and the handball club G.A.S. Kilkis which has received a Greek cup.

During the career of Greece by way of the Axis Powers in World War II, Kilkis became protected within the German quarter of career, but in 1943 it became part of Bulgarian zone, which turned into extended to include the prefectures of Kilkis and Chalkidiki, after the Nazis allowed so. The maximum significant occasion for the duration of the career become Battle of Kilkis which befell on 4 November 1944 among the communist-led EAM and a coalition of collaborationist Security Battalions and nationalist resistance organizations.

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