In detail

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  Aaron Chimino Tobacco Warehouse

  Aaron Jacob Chimino, initially worked as a tobacco worker and at the same time as a contractor for the Turkish beys, where he undertook the batching and baling of tobacco. He worked with the Turkish tobacco merchant Osman Kavala until 1922 and the exchange of populations with Aurelius Stamatyadis, establishing a company under the name 'Aurelius Stamatyadis and Aaron Jacob Tsimino tobacco in leaves'. After the American crash, the company ceased to operate in 1934.

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  Basterli Kioli Hotza Tobacco Warehouse

  This three-storey tobacco warehouse was the property of Basterli Kioli Hotza. In 1922 it was used by the 4th Nurses' Squadron, while today it houses a furniture factory.

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  REGGIE Tobacco Warehouse

  It was built in 1885 and purchased by the Ottoman tobacco. monopoly known as the "REGIE" or "Rezi" company, which had the exclusive right to distribute tobacco sold on the domestic market and the exclusive right to manufacture different types of cigarettes in four cities: Istanbul, Thessaloniki, Samsun and Smyrna.

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  Municipal Tobacco Warehouse and Tobacco Workers Square

  The Municipal Tobacco Warehouse was built in 1910 and housed the company Kiazim Emin & Cie of the Turkish businessman and tobacco merchant Kiazim Emin. The building follows modern Ottoman architecture, known as Ottoman neoclassicism, with a strong influence of European neoclassical architecture. Today it is used as a multi-cultural venue, hosting permanent and temporary exhibitions, as well as various events.

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  Baron Herzog Tobacco Warehouse

  The Hungarian tobacco merchant Baron Pierre Herzog built another large complex of tobacco warehouses. The building at the intersection of Damianou, Ethnarch Makarios and Victory Streets was the first administration building of the company. It was built in 1891 and has tower-like extensions at the corners of the roof, like a castle (castellated, based on its architectural description).

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  Schinasi Bros Tobacco Complex

  n 1905 the brothers Morris and Solomon Schinasi established their company in Kavala and built the tobacco warehouses in Eleftherias Square. This was a large complex of tobacco warehouses and offices for the company. It was said to have been designed by the famous architect William Burnet Tuthill, as were the company's offices in New York.

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  Municipal Tobacco Museum

  From the mid-19th century until the 1950s Kavala was the largest tobacco processing and export centre in the Balkans. The cultivation of tobacco brings in the mid-19th century the establishment of domestic and foreign tobacco trading houses. People from the periphery begin to settle in the city which has begun to spread outside the walls of the peninsula.

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  Town Hall – Herzog mansion – Wix mansion

  The building of the Kavala Town Hall is another important landmark for the city. Its architecture is strange and does not seem at all like the Ottoman or neoclassical structures found in the city, as it is a miniature of a Hungarian tower, due to its owner, the Hungarian tobacco merchant Baron Pierre Herzog, and was used as his residence. It was built in the late 1890s, and has strong romantic elements of old medieval towers and a distinct example of Gothic Revival with the Gothic arches on the towers and balconie

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