The village of Doympia, Chalkidiki, is located 25 km northwest of Polygyros, is built at the foot of the Curtina hill and belongs geographically to Central Macedonia. It belongs to the area of Zervochora Chalkidiki, its inhabitants are mainly engaged in agriculture and livestock farming, while a part of them is employed in the mines of Gerakini. The central temple is that of Saint Paraskevi. The exploitation of the well-known sources with the homonymous mineral water, 2 km west of the village, contributed decisively to the revitalization of the place.
The sights of the village include the eight watermills, the most important and best preserved, the Piper (1890), Koutsos (1865) and Tsourela (1888) water mill. The visitor can tour the forest with the ancient oak trees while at a distance of 3 km north of the village, excavations by the archaeological service have revealed part of the city of the Kalindos.
Dwelling in Doympia began in prehistoric times, as the settlement was found: a place of the Middle Palaeolithic, three Neolithic settlements and two positions of the late copper period. In the historical years, to the north of the village, the city of the ancient Kalindos developed where excavations are currently under way. This city flourished during the Classical, Hellenistic and Roman times. Remains of habitation of historical times were found in seven areas, mainly Roman ruins. In the area where today is the chapel of the Holy Apostles, there was a sanctuary of the Nymphs and Dionysus in the 1st century AD. During the Byzantine period, there were also coins of the 11th and 13th centuries.
The village was named after the two tumuli, which were on the plain, north of the village. The word tumulus (timvos), in the local dialect, became a tuba – a “toubia”, resulting in the establishment and name of the village named Doympia until today. Another view argues that the word Doympia in Slavic means oak. Perhaps it was so named from the oak forest that existed in the area.
The church of Agia Paraskevi was restored underground in 1852, with a license granted by a sultan firman. The most important heirloom that is preserved in the church is a Russian anti-monastery dating back to 1707. The Ottoman archive is also kept in the community center, which includes some 1,300 documents of the Ottoman domination dating from 1850 to 1912. These are mainly tapes, coffins, blankets, taxes and other documents of the inhabitants. Among them is the sale shop of 1852, with which the inhabitants bought the village which until then belonged as a tsiflik to Musa Kiazim Bey. There is also a copy of a firman with which permission is granted for the repair of the church of Agia Paraskevi in 1851.
