Akrini ( el, Ακρινή) is a village and a

community A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, tow ...

of the Kozani municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of

Ellispontos Ellispontos ( el, Ελλήσποντος) is a former municipality in Kozani regional unit, West Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Kozani, of which it is a municipal unit. The 2011 census rec ...

, of which it was a municipal district. The 2011 census recorded 960 inhabitants in the village and 975 inhabitants in the community of Akrini. The community of Akrini covers an area of 38.422 km².

History

Neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts ...

era tools has been discovered near Akrini. Objects from the 2nd century BC has been found in the area, as well as an

Early Christian Early Christianity (up to the First Council of Nicaea in 325) spread from the Levant, across the Roman Empire, and beyond. Originally, this progression was closely connected to already established Jewish centers in the Holy Land and the Jewish d ...

church of the 4th century AD. The contemporary village of Akrini is inhabited by

Greek refugees Greek refugees is a collective term used to refer to the more than one million Greek Orthodox natives of Asia Minor, Thrace and the Black Sea areas who fled during the Greek genocide (1914-1923) and Greece's later defeat in the Greco-Turkish War ...

from

Adapazarı Adapazarı () is a city in northwestern Turkey and the central district of Sakarya Province. The province itself was originally named Adapazarı as well. Adapazarı is a part of the densely populated region of the country known as the Marmara Regi ...

Administrative division

The community of Polymylos consists of five separate settlements: *Akrini (population 960) * Profitis Ilias (population 15) The aforementioned population figures are as of 2011.

References

{{Kozani div Populated places in Kozani (regional unit)

History

Administrative division

See also

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