The ones who came here first were the Greeks. Around l8l8 three Greek families came from Meis (The Greek island) for trading purposes and built houses and settled here. However there was a lack of drinking water by then. One day while the children of these families were playing by the seaside they found a water spring that was covered by reeds. They started shouting "kalamaki kalamaki which means "reeds reeds" in Greek language. Ever since the village was called Kalamaki. As years passed by some Turkish Muslim families came here from inlands also
for trading purposes and they started living together