What is "salamina"

Salamina may refer to:

• Salamis Island, an island in Greece
• Salamina (city), a town on Salamis Island in Greece
• Salamina, Caldas, a town and municipality in the Caldas Department, Colombia
• Salamina, Magdalena, a town and municipality in the Magdalena Department, Colombia
• Salamina, a memoir by Rockwell Kent about his first arctic winter in Illorsuit, Greenland.

Salamina City (, Salamis (Σαλαμίς, old-fashioned), or Kulluri ( Arvanitika: Kuluri)) is the largest town and a former municipality on Salamis Island in Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Salamis, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.

It is part of the Islands regional unit of the Attica region. The town lies in the northwestern part of the island. It had a population of 25,730 inhabitants at the 2001 census, the vast majority of whom are Arvanites. It was the municipal seat of the former municipality of Salamina, which had a land area of and comprised about 84 percent of the island (all except the easternmost central coast, which comprised the former municipality of Ampelakia). The population was 30,962 in 2001. It includes several other towns, the largest of which are Aiánteio (pop. 3,652), Stenó (288), Kanákia (278), Peristéria (215), Batsí (194), Kolónes (192), and Pérani (171).