Alimos (Municipality, Greece)

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Flag of Alimos - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 26 February 2013

• Presentation of Alimos
• Flag of Alimos
• Nautical Club of Kalamaki

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• Greece
• Attica (Greece)

Presentation of Alimos

The municipality of Alimos (38,047 inhabitants in 2001; 591 ha), also known as Kalamaki (Καλαμάκι) is a suburbs in the south-southwestern part of Athens. Alimos is considered as the closest summer destination for the Athenians, because of its beaches.
The municipality was not changed with the 2011 local government reform.

Olivier Touzeau, 25 February 2013

Flag of Alimos

The flag of Alimos (Kokkonis website) is light blue with the bust of the Athenian historian and general Thucydides (c. 460 - c. 395 BC), who was born in Alimos, in light grey, and the name of the municipality beneath.

Olivier Touzeau, 25 February 2013

Nautical Club of Kalamaki

Burgee of NOK - Image by Ivan Sache, 17 July 2002

The burgee of Nautical Club of Kalamaki (NOK, website, no longer online) has an unusual shape, being not exactly triangular but ending with a roundish point. It has five horizontal blue-white-blue-white-blue stripes merging in a single blue field near the hoist and a white disk with "NOK" above 1947 in red letters.

Ivan Sache, 17 July 2002