Agios Mamas is a large settlement and seat of the Municipal District of the same name in the municipality of Propontida in the prefecture of Chalkidiki. It is located between the peninsulas of Cassandra and Sithonia. Its distance from Thessaloniki is 70 km. Its beach is over 3.5km long. from Thermaikos and 5km from the Kassandra Bay and many visitors visit it each year.
Its roughly 1000 inhabitants are engaged in agriculture, since the area has large farmland with olive trees. Between Saint Mamas and Potidea, there are great marshes that create a unique lagoon that is a site of “Community Protection” and “Special Protection Zone” of the NATURA 2000 network and hosts a multitude of aquatic birds.
The village is known for the fair that is held every year in early September opposite the church of Saint Mamas and is the biggest festival in Chalkidiki. In the area of the feast there was the old chapel of Saint Mamas, but in its place was built a new temple and a state-of-the-art cultural center. The first known historical testimony to the trade fair of the day is in 1870.
However, the wider area of Saint Mamas and Olynthos has a great historical interest as excavated finds dating back to the end of the Neolithic period and the oldest cemetery found in Macedonia since the Early Bronze Age. In the “mumbai” of Saint Mamas the archaeological excavation brought to light finds, according to which the area was inhabited since 5000 BC. From an inscription of the imperial years, which was found near the village and mentions a family that inhabited “in Olynthos”, it is presumed that the name of ancient Olynthos survived until the end of antiquity in the Roman settlement here. The village of Saint Mamas refers to documents of Mount Athos in the 11th century.
In the 15th century it was subjugated to the Turks. Throughout the Ottoman domination, he was taxed in the Loss of Loggos. In the revolution of 1821 the village was destroyed by the Turks and the region became the Battle of the Elves. The inhabitants of Saint Mamas participated in the revolution of 1821, among them distinguished fighters of 1821 Dimitrios Polyzos, Ioannis Polyzos, Avgerinos Ioannou and others. The old village was built by archaeologist Pasha Michael Bey from Serres, who had decorated his yard with ancient findings from the archaeological sites of Chalkidiki.
