Krinida (Greek: Κρηνίδα) is a village in Serres regional unit of Central Macedonia, Greece, located 48 km southeast of the city of Serres. Since 2011 administrative reform it is a municipal unit of the municipality of Amphipolis and has a population of 573 inhabitants. Until 1958 it was named Vitasta.
History
editAntiquity
editAbout two kilometers north of Krinida, in the sites of “Toumba” or “Palia vouna”, there was a Roman settlement, dependent administratively on the Roman colony of Philippi.[1] in this place was found fragments of Roman pottery and a Latin inscription (of imperial times), which mentions a Roman settler of Philippi. In the place "Palia ecclesia" was also found a Greek votive inscription in the "Hero of Avlonitis" (3rd century AD), where are mentioned Thracian and Roman names.[2] The existence of Thracian population allows the conclusion that the settlement existed before the Roman conquest and belonged to the ancient Edonis.
References
edit- ^ [1] Archived 2017-04-24 at the Wayback Machine D. C. Samsaris, Historical Geography of Eastern Macedonia during the Antiquity (in Greek), Thessaloniki 1976 (Society for Macedonian Studies), p. 182. ISBN 960-7265-16-5
- ^ D. C. Samsaris, Le culte du cavalier Thrace dans la vallée du Bas-Strymon á l’ époque romaine (Recherches sur la localisation de ses sanctuaires), Dritter Internationaler Thrakologischer Kongress (2-6 juni 1980 Wien), 1984, p.285-286 -- D. C. Samsaris, La vallée du Bas-Strymon à l’ époque impériale (Contribution épigraphique á la topographie, l’ onomastique, l’ histoire et aux cultes de la province romaine de Macédoine), Dodona 18(1989), fasc. 1, p. 298-300, n. 165-166 = The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 165, # PH150806) The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 166, # PH150807)
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