Yerakini

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yerakini or Gerakini village (rarely Gherakini) (Greek: ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ [¿eraki¿ni]) lies on the Toroneos Gulf (or Kolpos Kassandras, Kassandra Gulf) between the two fingers of Kassandra and Sithonia in the Chalkidiki/Khalkidiki (in Greek ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿) peninsula in West Macedonia (region of Macedonia) in Northern Greece, 80 kilometres from Thessaloniki, and 65 kilometres from the Thessaloniki International Airport. There is a legend that a queen named Yerakina (Gerakina) lived there once, after whom Yerakini has taken its name. It is the seaport of Polygyros (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿), 10 km away, the capital of Chalkidiki prefecture. Yerakini is composed of three different and somehow distant parts: The middle part, the real village, where the church and the police station are found. The inhabitants of the village are farmers mainly cultivating olive trees for olive oil and olives.

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