Nigrita

Nigrita (Greek: Νιγρίτα) is a town and a former municipality in the Serres regional unit, Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Visaltia, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.[2] The municipal unit has an area of 160.888 km2.[3] It is situated in the wide plain south of the river Strymonas, at the northern foot of the Kerdylio mountains, in the southern part of the Serres regional unit. Nigrita is located 20 km south of Serres, and 56 km northeast of Thessaloniki.

For the genus of birds called Nigrita, see Nigrita (bird).
Nigrita
Νιγρίτα
Nigrita is located in Greece
Nigrita
Nigrita
Location within the regional unit
Coordinates: 40°54′N 23°30′E
CountryGreece
Administrative regionCentral Macedonia
Regional unitSerres
MunicipalityVisaltia
 • Municipal unit160.9 km2 (62.1 sq mi)
Elevation
80 m (260 ft)
Population
 (2011)[1]
 • Municipal unit
8,963
 • Municipal unit density56/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
622 00
Area code(s)23220
Vehicle registrationΕΡ
Websitenigrita.gr

History

Near Nigrita have been found several sites of ancient settlements of the Hellenistic and Roman times. One of them was perhaps the site of the ancient city Bisaltia, capital of the Bisaltae, which is known by Stephanus of Byzantium.[4]

In the Ottoman tahrir defter (number 7) of 1478 (Hijri 883),[5] the settlement is recorded as a village with the name Nigrita, within the kaza of Siroz.[6] At the beginning of the 19th century, it was a prosperous town where cotton, silver and copper were processed. The town became a part of Kingdom of Greece until after the 1913 Second Balkan War.

According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov ("Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics"), 2,500 Greek Christians lived in the village in 1900.[7]

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Nigrita is subdivided into the following communities:

  • Anthi
  • Flampouro
  • Nigrita
  • Terpni
  • Therma

Historical population
YearTown populationMunicipality population
19816,531-
19916,18610,668
20015,5669,783
20114,9478,963

See also

References
  1. "Απογραφή Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2011. ΜΟΝΙΜΟΣ Πληθυσμός" (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority.
  2. "ΦΕΚ A 87/2010, Kallikratis reform law text" (in Greek). Government Gazette.
  3. "Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)" (PDF) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece.
  4. Archived 2017-04-24 at the Wayback Machine D. C. Samsaris, Historical Geography of Eastern Macedonia during the Antiquity (in Greek), Thessaloniki 1976 (Society for Macedonian Studies), p. 109, 115. ISBN 960-7265-16-5.
  5. Özkılınç, Ahmet; Coşkun, Ali; Sivridağ, Abdullah; Yüzbaşıoğlu, Murat, eds. (2003). 167 Numaralı Muhâsebe-i Vilâyet-i Rûm-ili Defteri (937/1530) I (in Turkish). Ankara, Türkiye: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü. p. 9. ISBN 978-975-19-3673-8.
  6. Ünal, Uğur; Budak, Mustafa; Bayram, Sabahattin; Yıldıztaş, Mümin (2013). Özkılınç, Ahmet; Coşkun, Ali; Sivridağ, Abdullah (eds.). Osmanlı Yer Adları: I - RUMELİ EYALETİ (1514-1550) (PDF) (in Turkish). Ankara, Türkiye. pp. VII–VIII, 618. ISBN 9789751962386.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. Kanchov, Vasil, Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics, Sofia, 1900, book 2, p. 14. Written as "Нигрита". (in Bulgarian)
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