Chryso () is a small town in
Serres regional unit of
Central Macedonia
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,
Greece
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, located 12 km southeast of
Serres
Serres ( ) is a city in Macedonia, Greece, capital of the Serres regional unit and second largest city in the region of Central Macedonia, after Thessaloniki.
Serres is one of the administrative and economic centers of Northern Greece. The c ...
. Since 2011 it is a municipal unit of the municipality of
Emmanouil Pappas. It has a population of 1,006 inhabitants (2021). Until 1928 it was named Topoliani (Τοπόλιανη).
History
About 3 km south of Chryso, on a low hill, the traces of a
Roman-era rural settlement was found,
[D. C. Samsaris, A History of Serres (in the Ancient and Roman Times) (in Greek), Thessaloniki 1999, p. 156](_blank)
(Website of Municipality of Serres) near where remains of a Roman arched bridge and a paved road section are preserved.
The existence of another agricultural Roman settlement has also been identified on the rocky hill (former village) of "Zeli", situated between Chryso and
Agio Pnevma,
from where comes a Greek funeral inscription of Roman imperial times (2nd-3rd AD century)
[D. C. Samsaris, La vallée du Bas-Strymon á l’ époque impériale (Contribution épigraphique á la topographie, l’ onomastique, l’ histoire et aux cultes de la province romaine de Macédoine), Dodona 18 (1989), 1, p. 271, n. 105 ]
The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 105, # PH150744)
See also
List of settlements in the Serres regional unit
References
Populated places in Serres (regional unit)
Emmanouil Pappas (municipality)
Archaeological sites in Macedonia (Greece)
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