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Kymi (Greek: Κύμη, ''Kýmē'') is a coastal town and a former municipality (8,772 inhabitants in 2001) in the island of Euboea, Greece, named after an ancient Greek place of the same name. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Kymi-Aliveri, of which it is a municipal unit.〔(Kallikratis law ) Greece Ministry of Interior 〕 The ancient Euboean Kyme is mentioned as a harbor town related to the more prominent ''poleis'' of Chalkis and Eretria in antiquity. Together with these, it is sometimes named as the founding ''metropolis'' of the homonymous Kymē (Cumae) in Italy, an important early Euboean colony, which was probably named after it. There are few or no archaeological traces of ancient Euboean Kyme, and its exact location is not known. A Bronze Age settlement has been excavated in nearby Mourteri. Some modern authors believe that Kyme never existed as an independent ''polis'' in historical times but that it was a mere village dependent on either Chalkis or Eretria. == Notable Kymiotes == * Georgios Papanikolaou (1883–1962), physician, a pioneer in cytology and early cancer detection, and the inventor of the Pap test for cervical cancer * Major Ioannis Velissariou (1861–1913), popular hero of the Balkan Wars * Admiral Nikolaos Pappas (1930–2013), commander of the destroyer ''Velos'', mutinied in 1973 in protest against the Regime of the Colonels, later Chief of the Navy and government minister. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kymi, Greece」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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