Administrative Region : Central Macedonia
Regional unit : Serres
Kalokastro is a village in the prefecture of Serres with a population of 242 inhabitants, which belongs to the Municipality of Heraklion. It is 26 km from Serres.
The village used to be an autonomous community that was established as a Community of Kalo Kastro on 7/5/1927 with the detachment of the settlement of Kalo Kastro from the Community of Orliakos and with the Kapodistrias program it merged with other communities in the Municipality of Strymonikos. [1] [2] After the program, Kallikratis belongs to the Municipality of Heraklion. [3] The settlement of Kefalochori with 130 inhabitants also belongs to the local unit of Kalokastro.
Historical data
Ancient times
On the hill "Assar", which rises right next to the present village, are preserved the ruins (wall sections, etc.) of an important ancient city, from which inscriptions were occasionally obtained [4], coins and various other archaeological finds (clay figurines, vessels and numerous pottery shells) of classical, Hellenistic and Roman times. The city, which belonged to Visaltia, is probably identical with Euporia, mentioned by the geographer Ptolemy and the Roman Travelers. This identification is supported by its location near the Strymon River and the etymology of its name from "ev" and "poros" (ie a city located near an easy river crossing).
Byzantine and modern times
References
"Administrative Evolution". Municipality of Strymonikos. Retrieved February 5, 2011. [dead link]
"Administrative changes / OTA - Strymoniko of Serres". Hellenic Society for Local Development and Local Government. Retrieved February 5, 2011. [dead link]
Kallikratis Program - Government Gazette A87 of 07/06/2010
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), Δωδώνη 18 (1989), τεύχ. 1, pp. 215-216, no. 1-2 = The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 1, # PH150638) The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 2, # PH150639)
[1] Archived 2017-04-24 on Wayback Machine. D. K. Samsaris, Historical Geography of Eastern Macedonia in Antiquity, Thessaloniki 1976 (Society for Macedonian Studies), pp. 117-118. ISBN 960-7265-16-5
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