Editing Calimera

{{Short description|Comune in Apulia, Italy}}
{{Infobox Italian comune
| name                = Calimera
| official_name       = Comune di Calimera
| native_name         = [[Griko]]: {{lang|el|Kalimèra}}
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| image_shield        = Calimera-Stemma.svg
| shield_alt          = Coat of arms of Calimera
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| coordinates         = {{coord|40|15|N|18|17|E|region:IT_type:city(7363)|display=inline,title}}
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| region              =    {{flag|Apulia}}
| province            = {{ProvinciaIT|sigla=LE}} (LE)
| frazioni            = 
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| mayor               = Gianluca Tommasi from 21-9-2020
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| area_total_km2      = 11.14
| population_footnotes = 
| population_total    = 6753
| population_as_of    = 31 December 2021
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| population_demonym  = Calimeresi
| elevation_footnotes = 
| elevation_m         = 56
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| saint               = Saints Brizio and Maria di Roca
| day                 = 29 July
| postal_code         = 73021
| area_code           = 0832
| website             = {{official website|https://www.comune.calimera.le.it/}}
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'''Calimera''' ([[Griko]]: {{lang|el|Καλημέρα}} <small>[[literal translation|lit.]]</small> "good morning"), is a small town of 6,753 inhabitants (2021) in the [[Grecìa Salentina]] area of the [[Salento]] [[peninsula]] in [[Italy]], located between [[Gallipoli, Apulia|Gallipoli]] and [[Otranto]]. It belongs to the province of [[Lecce]].

The inhabitants of Calimera, alongside [[Italian language|Italian]], also speak [[Griko language|Griko]], a Greek dialect. The language, [[folklore]], [[tradition]]s and [[history]] of Calimera, like those of the eight other cities in the area called "Salentine Greece", reveal significant Greek influences over the course of time, presumably from the time of the Byzantine control, or even the ancient [[Magna Graecia]] [[Apoikia|colonisation]] in the 8th century BCE.

In the park, there is a small monument containing an ancient Attic [[burial stone]], given by the city of [[Athens]] to Calimera in 1960. At the top of this monument is a motto, referring to the burial stone: ''"Zeni su en ise ettù sti Kalimera"'' (in [[Greek alphabet|Greek script]]: Τσένη 'σού 'εν είσαι ετού στη Καλημέρα), meaning "You are not a stranger here in Calimera", which underlines the close relationship and common origins of Calimera with the rest of Greek civilisation.

==Story of the city's name==
The story of the city's name starts when immigrants from Greece came and installed there. An italian stranger, who was passing from the city, asks  from an inhabitant to tell him the name of the city. The greek human didn't understand the language (italian) and so the only thing that he told him was the greek greeting "Calimera" which means "good morning". The italian, supposing that he answered his question, thought that the name of the city was "Calimera" and so the city took this name!

==See also==
*[[Magna Graecia]]
*[[Griko people]]
*[[Griko language]]
*[[Greeks in Italy]]
*[[Ghetonia]]

==External links==
* [https://www.comune.calimera.le.it/ Community of Calimera], in Italian

{{Salentinian Greece}}
{{Province of Lecce}}


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[[Category:Cities and towns in Apulia]]
[[Category:Grecìa Salentina]]
[[Category:Localities of Salento]]


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