Akropotamos, Kavala

Administrative Region : East Macedonia and Thrace
Regional unit : Kavala

Akropotamos (Ακροπόταμος) Kavala

Akropotamos is a settlement in the regional unit of Kavala. It is 50 km away from the city of Kavala and according to the latest census they have a permanent population of 693 inhabitants. [1] The settlement belongs to the jurisdiction of the municipality of Pangaio.

General and historical data

Remains of a Neolithic settlement have been found near Akropotamos. [2] The Akropotamos is built at an altitude of 240 meters and before 1940 it was known as Bobliani and Monolithos of the Akropotamos. [3] After 1924, Greek refugees from Cappadocia settled in the settlement. [4] In early October 1941, about 20 residents of the settlement were executed by the Bulgarian Occupation Forces in retaliation for the outbreak of the Drama uprising. [5]

Administratively, after its incorporation into the Greek state, the Akropotamos was subordinated to the province of Pangaio where it remained until 1997. Then it became part of the Kapodistrian municipality of Orfanos [3] and since 2011 it belongs to the cultural municipality of Pangaio.

Population censuses
Census 1928 1940 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2001 2011
Population 574 [3] 772 [3] 916 [3] 994 [3] 729 [3] 668 [3] 769 [3]; 693 [1]

References

statistics.gr Archived 2012-11-13 in Wayback Machine. Permanent Population-Census 2011 results table
"NOT. Orphan ". dimospaggaiou.gr. Municipality of Paggaio. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
Michail Stamatelatos, Fotini Vamba-Stamatelatou, Geographical Dictionary of Greece, TA NEA, 2012, Volume I, p. 56.
Symeon Koimisoglou, Cappadocia. Monument of World Cultural Heritage, Greek History, Faith, Culture, ILP Productions, Thessaloniki 2005, p. 452.
Spyros Kouzinopoulos, Drama 1941. A Misunderstood Uprising, Kastaniotis Publications, Athens 2011, p. 181.

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