Chryso (Greek: Χρυσό) is a small town in Serres regional unit of Central Macedonia, Greece, located 12 km southeast of Serres. Since 2011 it is a municipal unit of the municipality of Emmanouil Pappas and has a population of 1,571 inhabitants. Until 1928 it was named Topoliani (Τοπόλιανη).

History

Antiquity

About 3 km south of Chryso, on a low hill, the traces of a Roman-era rural settlement was found,[1] near where remains of a Roman arched bridge and a paved road section are preserved.[2]

The existence of another agricultural Roman settlement has also been identified on the rocky hill (former village) of "Zeli", situated between Chryso and Agio Pnevma,[1] from where comes a Greek funeral inscription of Roman imperial times (2nd-3rd AD century)[3]

See also

List of settlements in the Serres regional unit

References

  1. 1 2 D. C. Samsaris, A History of Serres (in the Ancient and Roman Times) (in Greek), Thessaloniki 1999, p. 156 Archived 2018-06-24 at the Wayback Machine (Website of Municipality of Serres)
  2. D. C. Samsaris, Historical Geography of Eastern Macedonia during the Antiquity (in Greek), Thessaloniki 1976 (Society for Macedonian Studies), p. 180 Archived 2017-04-24 at the Wayback Machine ISBN 960-7265-16-5
  3. 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), Dodona 18 (1989), 1, p. 271, n. 105 = The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 105, # PH150744)

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