Kastanoussa (Greek: Καστανούσσα), known before 1926 as Palmes (Greek: Πάλμες),[2] is a village and a community in Serres with a population of 635 inhabitants as recorded in the 2021 census.[1] The village and community belongs to the municipality of Sintiki.
Kastanoussa
Καστανούσσα | |
|---|---|
  Kastanoussa | |
| Coordinates: 41°16′25″N 22°53′33″E / 41.27361°N 22.8925°E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | Central Macedonia |
| Regional unit | Serres |
| Municipality | Sintiki |
| Municipal unit | Kerkini |
| Elevation | 274 m (899 ft) |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
| • Community | 635 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 620 55 |
| Area code(s) | +30 23270 |
| Vehicle registration | EP |
Geography
editThe village is located in the southern foothills of Belasitsa, near the borders with North Macedonia and Bulgaria.
History
editIn the Ottoman Empire
editIn 1891 Georgi Strezov wrote:
Palmesh, several neighbourhoods on the west of Poroy [modern name of Ano Poroia], 6 hours drive at the foot of Belasitsa and Pear mountain. Approximately 200 houses, all Pomaks. They speak Bulgarian with a slight difference from Poroy; they dress in a special red garment-anther and poturi. They come to the market in Poroy with fish from Doiran Lake.[3]
According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov ("Macedonia. Ethnography and Statistics") by 1900 "Palmesh" ("Palmesha") is a Bulgarian Muslims' settlement . 1150 Bulgarian Muslims were living there at the time. [4]
Under Greek sovereignty
editDuring the First Balkan War the village was under Bulgarian control, but after the Second Balkan War in 1913 it was incorporated within Greece.
References
edit- ^ a b "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
- ^ Μετονομασίες των Οικισμών της Ελλάδας. Πάλμες -- Καστανούσσα
- ^ Stresov 1891, p. 860.
- ^ Kanchov 1996, p. 185.
Bibliography
edit- Kanchov, Vasil (1996) [1900]. Makedonija : etnografija i statistika [Macedonia: Ethnography and statistics] (in Bulgarian). Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISBN 978-9-54-430424-9. OCLC 164844115.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - Stresov, Georgi (1891). Два санджака отъ Источна Македония [Two sanjaks from Eastern Macedonia] (PDF) (in Bulgarian). Sofia: Dŭrzhavna pechatnitsa.
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