Kastanoussa

Kastanoussa
Καστανούσσα
Kastanoussa is located in Greece
Kastanoussa
Kastanoussa
Coordinates: 41°16′25″N 22°53′33″E / 41.27361°N 22.8925°E / 41.27361; 22.8925
CountryGreece
Administrative regionCentral Macedonia
Regional unitSerres
MunicipalitySintiki
Municipal unitKerkini
Elevation
274 m (899 ft)
Population
 (2021)[1]
 • Community635
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
620 55
Area code(s)+30 23270
Vehicle registrationEP

Kastanoussa (Greek: Καστανούσσα), known before 1926 as Palmes (Greek: Πάλμες),[2] is a village and a community in Serres with a population of 635 inhabitants as recorded in the 2021 census.[1] The village and community belongs to the municipality of Sintiki.

Geography

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The village is located in the southern foothills of Belasitsa, near the borders with North Macedonia and Bulgaria.

History

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In the Ottoman Empire

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In 1891 Georgi Strezov wrote:

Palmesh, several neighbourhoods on the west of Poroy [modern name of Ano Poroia], 6 hours drive at the foot of Belasitsa and Pear mountain. Approximately 200 houses, all Pomaks. They speak Bulgarian with a slight difference from Poroy; they dress in a special red garment-anther and poturi. They come to the market in Poroy with fish from Doiran Lake.[3]

According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov ("Macedonia. Ethnography and Statistics") by 1900 "Palmesh" ("Palmesha") is a Bulgarian Muslims' settlement . 1150 Bulgarian Muslims were living there at the time. [4]

Under Greek sovereignty

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During the First Balkan War the village was under Bulgarian control, but after the Second Balkan War in 1913 it was incorporated within Greece.

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Μετονομασίες των Οικισμών της Ελλάδας. Πάλμες -- Καστανούσσα
  3. ^ Stresov 1891, p. 860.
  4. ^ Kanchov 1996, p. 185.

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