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 | Number 1. Around 1914. The first organized gym of Kavala, built by expenses of the Elders of the Greek Orthodox Community in 1904. Its location was at the yard of the contemporary Elementary School next to the church of St. John.
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 | Number 2. Hydras Street at the beginning of the 20th century. A quite unknown view of Kavala, with extraordinary samples of macedonian architecture.
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 | Number 3. Transport of tobacco through the city of Kavala at the beginning of the 20th century. Mules and horses were used as a means of transportation.
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 | Number 4. The old port of Kavala at the end of the 19th century. Notice the dome of St. Nicholas' church, that used to be a muslim temple at that time, before its conversion to christian church in 1924.
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 | Number 5. Close view of the old port of Kavala in the 1920's.
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 | Number 6. Public transport between Kavala and Drama in the 1920's. This primal bus was known as "The train of Kavala and Drama" and was considered to be the state of the art in the field of transport at that time, compared to the animal-dragged coaches.
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 | Number 7. Omonoias Street in the 1920's.
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 | Number 8. Close view of the old port in the first decade of the 20th century. Notice that the breakwater facility was very limited and existed only near the Customs warehouses. The rest of the port was the seashore itself, where small dockyards existed for the necessary repairs of the boats.
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 | Number 9. View of the old port. There were special buildings that expanded into the sea, in order to facilitate the shipment of tobacco into the boats, in case of rain. On the beach there were also many loads of firewood, that were coming from the island of Thassos and Mount Athos.
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 | Number 10. Close view of the breakwater of the old port that led to the Customhouse. First decade of the 20th century.
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 | Number 11. Photograph of around 1900. The church of St. John, built in 1867 at the centre of the newly-built city of Kavala.
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 | Number 12. The gate to the old town, today's Theodorou Poulidou Street. The gate was demolished by the Bulgarians during the occupation of 1941 - 44. The photograph dates back to 1900.
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 | Number 13. Sea view of the twin neoclassic buildings in the centre of Kavala, one of which houses today the Municipal Conservatory. The beach is also visible, before the works of the port breakwater take place. Photograph of the 1920's.
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 | Number 14. View of the old port of Kavala at Karaoli square at around 1900, when the port was just the beach without any breakwater facility. There are only some commercial warehouses and small dockyards. A few years later, all these facilities had to be modified, in order to reciprocate to the highly increased needs of the region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace.
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 | Number 15. A rare picture from a traditional wedding of peasants of the region of Kavala, at around 1900. The rifles and revolvers that they carried were used not only for the wedding celebration, but also for their own safety.
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 | Number 16. Contemporary Venizelou Street in the era of turkish occupation. You can see at the left the turkish cemetery, which is today the central Eleftherias (Liberty) square. The gathered crowd are probably celebrating the establishment of the Neoturks' constitution in 1908.
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 | Number 17. View of Tokkos Mansion in the 1910's. The ground floor was housing an excellent printery, whereas on the last floor there were the English and Italian Consulates. The Mansion had been built by the tobacco merchant D. Tokkos and was originally used as a tobacco elaboration factory and residence. Later, until 1937, it was used as the City Hall and today houses the Department of Byzantine Antiquities.
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 | Number 18. The former "Grand Hotel" at Omonoias Street in the 1900's.
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 | Number 19. Shipping of tobacco to small boats in the 1910's. These small boats transferred the tobacco to greater steam boats, which exported it to international markets.
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 | Number 20. Tobacco elaboration in factories of Kavala, in the decade of the 1900's.
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 | Number 21. Photograph of 1906. The elaboration of tobacco at the factories of Kavala was a very delicate procedure and the craftsmen who accomplished it had the privilege to receive very high fees.
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 | Number 22. Headquarters of the tobacco workers union in the 1910's. The building was placed opposite the current City Hall of Kavala. The building was always crowded with tobacco workers, who had the opportunity to gather and discuss about all their labour matters.
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 | Number 23. Massive withdrawal of tobacco workers from the factories of Kavala in the 1900's. The factories still stand in place today in Damianou Street.
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 | Number 24. Hospital "Evaggelismos", courtesy of our fellow citizen Spyros Sekertzis. It had 18 available beds and a fully equipped surgery. The expenses of its operation were covered by local charitable groups and donations of citizens. The inauguration of the hospital took place on August 19th, 1900.
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 | Number 25. The dockyard of Kavala at around 1910.
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 | Number 26. The church of St. Athanasios in the 1900's. It is the third oldest church of Kavala, probably built at around 1879 - 80.
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 | Number 27. Celebration of the Epiphany by the shore in front of the church of St. John in the 1900's.
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 | Number 28. Sea view of Kavala in the 1900's.
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 | Number 29. View of "Kamares" (old aquaduct) in the 1920's. There was a great number of shops, coffee houses and laboratories around the monument, as well as the traditional town bazaar.
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 | Number 30. Wood engraving of a sea view of Kavala at the second half of the 19th century.
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 | Number 31. View of Kavala by the traveler and painter Edward Lear, who visited Greece several times between 1848 and 1864 and spent four years in Corfu. Lear was a very talented artist, whose paintings of Greek landscapes are being preserved in Gennadius Library and comprise a very important source of information. Lear visited Kavala in September of 1856 and painted it on September 26th, as seen on the painting. The painting also depicts many other beautiful details, such as the former muslim temple of Ibrahim Passa, the fortifications of the old city (Panagia) and the old aquaduct (Kamares). At the little bay there are anchored some tall ships of the era. At the top left corner, one can see the island of Thassos and on the right Chalkidiki (Mount Athos).
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 | Number 32. Sea view of Kavala at the last quarter of the 19th century.
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 | Number 33. Panoramic view of Kavala in the 1900's. All important buildings and squares of that time are clearly visible.
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 | Number 34. View of the shore in the 1900's, at the current spot of the Commercial Bank. The main commercial activities of the site were located to the fish market, which was full of the piscatory affluence of the region.
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 | Number 35. Post Office Street during the turkish occupation, at the corner of Venizelou and Doiranis Streets today. On that street there were the post offices of foreign countries' consulates, which were serving the public. The street ended at the small square of the yard of St. Nicholas' church.
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 | Number 36. One of Kavala's oldest depictions in the decade of the 1890's. The building at the top left corner was housing the old prison of the city. Some other major buildings, such as various schools and churches have not been built yet.
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 | Number 37. The contemporary Court of Kavala, which used to be the headquarters of the turkish administration. It was built in 1896 by Emin Passa. On the left we can see the great entrance to the courtyard, as well as the building of the small magistrate's court. Both buildings were demolished in the 1960's, in order to renovate the contemporary Court of Kavala.
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 | Number 38. The entry of the 7th Division of Infantry in Kavala, at the liberation of the city in 1913. The inhabitants are overwhelmed with enthusiasm and joy and the greek flags wave again after almost 530 years of slavery.
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 | Number 39. Kavala in 1907 - 8, at the building of the church of St. Paul by the architect Pericles Fotiades. In the background, the small port is full with boats, which aim to load tobacco shipments for the markets of Greece and Europe.
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 | Number 40. View of the area of St. John's church in the last decade of the 19th century. The construction of the city and the great tobacco warehouses has just begun. You can see in the photograph the twin neoclassic buildings (built before 1884), Philippou Street and the dome of the church.
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 | Number 41. View of the old city (Panagia), with the Imaret (muslim seminary) and the medieval castle.
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 | Number 42. Amazing view of St. John's church and the yard of the contemporary 16th Elementary School in the decade of the 1900's. The fenced old cemetery is also visible, as well as its chapel.
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 | Number 43. The wavy beach with the huge tobacco warehouses is the contemporary Erythrou Stavrou Street at the beginning of the 20th century. On the right we can see the twin neoclassic buildings of the tobacco merchants N. and G. Georgiades. Unfortunately, only one of them has been preserved in our days by the municipal authorities and houses the Municipal Conservatory.
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 | Number 44. Decade of the 1900's. View of the two beautiful neoclassic buildings at 8 and 10 Kyprou Street. These buildings were built between 1890 and 1910 and house today the services of the Municipal Authorities of Kavala. On the left, the mansion of the Hungarian-Jew tobacco merchant Herzog, which is today the City Hall. On the right, the mansion of another great tobacco merchant, German Adolf de Szolnay Vicks.
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 | Presentative Map of Greece. This map, in scale 1:700,000, is referred to H.L.A.K.'s book: "Destroyed Cities and Villages by Virtue of the War of 1940 - 1945" and marks burned and bombed cities and villages throughout the greek region, in the era of 1940 - 45. The resolution of the electronic jpg file is 10,755x14,256 pixels (much greater than the enlarged file you can see) and its size is 18.7 MB.
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