Sidirokastro
Sidirokastro
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Sidirokastro (
Byzantine
ruins, and natural spas.
General information
Sidirokastro is located 25 km to the northwest of the town of
Asia Minor (people who sought asylum in Greece from the wars and conflicts of that period). Sidirokastro took in refugees from Melnik
in 1913; from East Thrace (European Turkey) after the 1922 onslaught that followed the Greco-Turkish Wars in Asia Minor; from Pontus, Vlachs and people from all over Greece.
History
Sidirokastro's history reaches a long way back in time. There are Palaeolithic ruins here, and references to the area are found in Homer and Herodotus. Its ancient inhabitants migrated to Sidirokastro from the island of Limnos. The area's first inhabitants were of the
Patriarchist Grecomans, 245 Greek Christians, 240 Aromanians, 162 Romani, and 24 Exarchist Bulgarians.[8]
In 1912, Sidirokastro was captured by the Bulgarians under general
Axis Occupation of Greece
. The Bulgarians left in 1944 with the rest of the retreating Axis powers.
Sights
- There are a number of sights to be found in Sidirokastro, such as the ruins of the Byzantine castle, the Agios Dimitrios church that is carved in rock, and the bridges over the Krousovitis River.
- The Issari Fort, built by Emperor Basil II. Standing 155 metres tall, it towers over the town's northwest side. The town owes its name to this fort: "Sidirokastro" means "iron castle" in Greek, as does "Demir Hisar" in Turkish.
- The wetland habitat of the artificial Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, is Greece's natural frontier with Bulgaria. It is one of the richest fowl habitats in Greece: home to more than 300 species.[citation needed]
- The Sidirokastro Hot Springs have a temperature of 45 °C. They are just outside the town to the north, near the Strymon River railway-bridge, on a hill that has views of the area. Thousands of people go to these hot springs every year, both for recreation or therapy.[citation needed] There are more hot springs in Thermes and in Angistro.
- The town's greatest annual festival is on 27 June, celebrating the area's liberation from Ottoman rule in 1913.
- Mihalis Tsartsidis Folklore and History Museum
Notable natives
- Simeon Dermentzidis (1951), painter, visual artist[9][10]
- Nikolaos Gousios, Greek chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle
- 1974[11]
- Sotiris Konstantinidis, Greek footballer
- Ioannis Tsintsaris, Greek weightlifter
- Georgi Parvanov Vassilev - Gocho (Георги Василев), Bulgarian football player, striker
References
- ^ a b "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
- ^ "Kallikratis Programme reform municipalities, Decision 45892, Government Gazette (FEK) 1292 Β'/11-08-2010" (PDF) (in Greek). Government Gazette. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 April 2023 – via Hellenic Agency for Local Development and Local Government.
- ^ "Government Gazette 1292/2010 B', Kallikratis reform municipalities" (in Greek). Government Gazette – via National Printing House of Greece.
Notice: when click on the hyperlink title then it will be automatically downloaded the document (PDF).
- ^ "Population and housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)" (PDF) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece.
- ISBN 960-7265-16-5. Archived from the originalon 3 June 2019.
- ISSN 0041-4255– via DergiPark.
- ^ "Yeni Sayfa 1" (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 4 May 2008. Retrieved 3 April 2010.
- ^ Dimitri Mishev; D. M. Brancoff. "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne" (in French). p. 188 – via Anemi Digital Library of Modern Greek Studies.
- ^ "Biography: Simeon (Simos) Dermentzidis" (in Greek). 18 March 2021. Archived from the original on 21 February 2024.
- ^ "Simeon Dermentzidis" (in Greek). 30 April 2021. Archived from the original on 21 February 2024.
- ^ "Georgios Katsanis: The hero of Cyprus will be buried in Serres" (in Greek). 30 January 2020.
External links
- Municipality of Sintiki (in Greek)
- Portal of Sidirokastro: News and discussion about the Sidirokastro (in Greek)
Further reading
- Samsaris, Dimitris K. (1976). Historical geography of Eastern Macedonia in Antiquity (in Greek). ISBN 960-7265-16-5. Archived from the originalon 2017-04-24. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
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