Mouries () is a village and a former

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in the Kilkis regional unit, northern

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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality

Kilkis Kilkis () is a city in Central Macedonia, Greece. As of 2021 there were 24,130 people living in the city proper, 27,493 people living in the municipal unit, and 45,308 in the municipality of Kilkis. It is also the capital city of the regional un ...

, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 138.660 km². Population 1,846 (2021). The seat of the municipality was in Stathmos Mourion (Mouries Station). During the

Macedonian Struggle The Macedonian Struggle was a series of social, political, cultural and military conflicts that were mainly fought between Greek and Bulgarian subjects who lived in Ottoman Macedonia between 1893 and 1912. From 1904 to 1908 the conflict was p ...

, the inhabitants of the Mouries area fought hard against the Bulgarian enemy. Stavros Pallas, a Greek Macedonian fighter from Mouries, was one of the great fighters in the area.In Greek: Obscure Native Macedonian Fighters" Company of Macedonian Studies (CMS), University Studio Press, Thessaloniki, 2008]

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Populated places in Kilkis (regional unit) Kilkis {{CentralMacedonia-geo-stub bg:Аканджали (дем)