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Administrative Region : West Macedonia
Regional unit : Florina
Amyntaio (also Amydeo, Greek: Αμύνταιο) is a town and municipality in the Florina peripheral unit of Macedonia, Greece. The population of Amyntaio proper is 4,407, while that of the entire municipality is 18,975 (2001).[1] Amyntaio station is a railway junction, where the line to Kozani branches off from the Platy-Florina main line.
Archaeological excavations
On March 4, 2007, an unknown civilization around four lakes that lasted from 6000 BC to 60 BC has been uncovered in two important excavations of a Neolithic and an Iron Age settlement in the Amyntaio district of Florina, northern Greece.
A 7,300-year-old home with a timber floor, remnants of food supplies and blackberry seeds are among the findings in a Neolithic settlement near the lakes of Vegoritida, Petres, Heimatitida and Zazari. Garments, women’s fashions and burial customs in northern Eordaia 3,000 years ago are coming to light among the hundreds of funeral offerings in a forgotten necropolis dating from the Iron Age in western Macedonia.
More than 100 years after the excavation at Agios Panteleimonas in Amyntaio in the Florina prefecture – known in the bibliography as the Pateli Necropolis – by the Russian Archaeological Institute of Istanbul, a systematic investigation of 12 tombs by the 17th Antiquities Ephorate has found a total of 358 tombs dating from between 950 BC and 550 BC. Although the first discovery in 1898 of 376 graves produced many findings, now in the Istanbul Museum, the necropolis between the lakes of Heimatitida and Petres has revealed hundreds more graves.
Municipality
Railway station 1894
Lake Vegoritida, parts in Florina and Pella prefecture (Amyntaio, Filotas and Vegoritida municipality)
Amyntaio
Division of the former municipality of Amyntaio
- Amyntaio / Δ.δ. Αμυνταίου [ 4407 ]
- Agios Panteleimon / Δ.δ. Αγίου Παντελεήμονος -- ο Άγιος Παντελεήμων [ 1110 ]
- Kella / Δ.δ. Κέλλης -- η Κέλλα [ 805 ]
- Kleidion / Δ.δ. Κλειδίου -- το Κλειδίον [ 139 ]
- Xinon Neron (or Xyno Nero) / Δ.δ. Ξινού Νερού -- το Ξινόν Νερόν [ 1229 ]
- Petres / Δ.δ. Πετρών -- οι Πέτρες [ 444 ]
- Rodon / Δ.δ. Ροδώνος -- ο Ροδών [ 107 ]
- Fanos / Δ.δ. Φανού -- ο Φανός [ 137 ]
Agios Panteleimonas
The newmunicipality Amyntaio was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 6 former municipalities, that became municipal units:[1]
Aetos
Amyntaio
Filotas
Lechovo
Nymfaio
Variko Agios Panteleimonas
Amyntaio
Kella
Kleidi
Petres
Rodonas
Fanos
Economy
Amyntaio Power Station
References
^ a b Kallikratis law Greece Ministry of Interior (Greek)
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