Toumpa (Greek: Τούμπα) is a village in Serres regional unit of Central Macedonia, Greece, located 20 km (12 mi) southeast of Serres. Since 2011 it is a municipal unit of the municipality of Emmanouil Pappas and has a population of 576 inhabitants. The village bore the same name before 1928.

History

Antiquity

On the hillside of Phakistra, located very close to Toumpa, a lot of archaeological finds have been unearthed over time and between them two Greek inscriptions of Roman imperial times (2nd century AD).[1] All these testifies to the existence of an ancient settlement with a continuous life from prehistoric to Byzantine times.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 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), fasc. 1, p. 279-281, n. 118-119 = The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 118, # PH150758)The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 119, # PH150759)
  2. ↑ D. C. Samsaris, Historical Geography of Eastern Macedonia during the Antiquity (in Greek), Thessaloniki 1976 (Society for Macedonian Studies), p. 179. ISBN 960-7265-16-5

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