[2] Before the 2011 local government reform it was a part of the municipality of Olympos.

[5] The settlement is recorded as village and as "Kokinopulo" in the Ottoman Tahrir Defter number 101 dating to 1521.

[5] During the Balkan Wars the advancing Greek army entered the village in21 October 1912.

[5] During the Axis occupation of Greece the village was burned twice: in 1943 by the Italians and in 1944 by the Germans.

[7][5] The latter resulted to the scattering of the population of the village, in Katerini and Thessaloniki and to the establishment of Kalyvia as a permanent settlement.