Rodolivos ( el, Ροδoλίβος) is a town and a former municipality in the
Serres regional unit,
Greece
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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality
Amfipoli
Amphipolis ( ell, Αμφίπολη, translit=Amfipoli; grc, Ἀμφίπολις, translit=Amphipolis) is a municipality in the Serres regional unit, Macedonia, Greece. The seat of the municipality is Rodolivos. It was an important ancient Gre ...
, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.
The municipal unit has an area of 106.034 km
2.
It is about 30 km from
Drama
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. Its population was 2,611 in 2001. The village is at the foot of
Mount Pangaio
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.
Just next to Rodolivos, namely on the hill of "St. Athanasius" and also in the neighboring place "Kouria", are attested traces of two ancient settlements of Edonida (
Greek
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: Ηδωνίδα), which were located on the via Egnatia. In these sites were found some inscriptions of imperial times (2nd-3rd AD).
[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), fasc. 1, p. 294-295, n. 153-156 ]
The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 153, # PH150794)The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 154, # PH150795)
http://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/150796?bookid=126&location=4 The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 155, # PH150796)
The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 156, # PH150797)
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Subdivisions
The municipal unit Rodolivos is subdivided into the following communities (population in 2011 in square brackets):
*Rodolivos 2072
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*Domiros 154
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*Mikro Souli 385
See also
List of settlements in the Serres regional unit
This is a list of settlements in the Serres regional unit, Greece:
* Achinos
* Achladochori
* Adelfiko
* Agia Eleni
* Agia Paraskevi
* Agio Pnevma
* Agiochori
* Agios Christoforos
* Agios Dimitrios
* Agkistro
* Agriani
* Aidonochori
* Ak ...
References
Populated places in Serres (regional unit)
Archaeological sites in Macedonia (Greece)
Macedonia (Greece)
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