Assiros ( gr, Άσσηρος, before 1926: Γιουβέσνα - ''Giouvesna'',Name changes of settlements in Greece
/ref> bg, Гвоздово, Gvozdovo) is a village and a former municipality in the Thessaloniki regional unit,

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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality

Lagkadas Lagkadas ( el, Λαγκαδάς, ) is a town and municipality in the northeast part of Thessaloniki regional unit, Greece. There are 41103 residents in the municipality and 7764 of them live in the town of Lagkadas. Lagkadas is located northeast o ...

, of which it is a municipal unit. The 2011 census recorded 1,975 inhabitants in the village of Assiros, 2,216 inhabitants in the community and 3,861 inhabitants in the municipal unit. The community of Assiros covers an area of 55.369 km², while the respective municipal unit covers an area of 76.657 km².

Administrative division

The community of Assiros consists of two separate settlements: *Assiros (population 1,975) * Examili (population 241) The aforementioned populations are as of 2011.

History

The archaeological site of Assiros Toumba, a 4000 year old settlement mound, is located within the territory of modern Assiros. Excavation between 1975 and 1989 at this site has made a major contribution to understanding the nature of settlement, society, economy and material culture in prehistoric Macedonia. In addition, a combination of radiocarbon and dendrochronological research on building timbers and radiocarbon dates for animal bones recovered from the site has provided one of the few accurate dates for the transition from Bronze to Iron Age in the Aegean area c.1070 BC, see Dating the End of the Greek Bronze Age: A Robust Radiocarbon-Based Chronology from Assiros Toumba According to the statistics of

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("Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics"), 500

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lived in the village in 1900. Kanchov, Vasil, ,

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, 1900, book 2, p. 11. Written as "Гювезна (Гвоздово)". (in Bulgarian)

References

Assiros Project web pages
*Thracians and Mycenaeans: Proceedings of the Fourth International Congres

*The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe by Barry W. Cunliff

*Urbanism in the Aegean Bronze Age by Keith Braniga
Official site of the Demos (Municipality) of AssirosCatalogue of archaeological sites in the Demos of Assiros
Populated places in Thessaloniki (regional unit) Mycenaean sites in Macedonia (Greece) Geography of ancient Mygdonia Iron Age sites in Greece {{CentralMacedonia-geo-stub

Administrative division

History

See also

References