Kamenikia ( el, Καμενίκια, bg, Каменица - Kamenitsa) is the name of a neighborhood in the city of

Serres Sérres ( el, Σέρρες ) is a city in Macedonia, Greece, capital of the Serres regional unit and second largest city in the region of Central Macedonia, after Thessaloniki. Serres is one of the administrative and economic centers of Northe ...

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with ...

today. During the antiquity in the place of Kamenikia was flourishing a settlement depended administratively on the nearby ancient city of

. The settlement was located on the hill named "Besik-tepe" on the eastern bank of the stream of St. Barbara (known as "Tsai"), in which there was a little below a bridge (rather wooden). From this bridge was passing a Roman road (branch of

via Egnatia The Via Egnatia was a road constructed by the Romans in the 2nd century BC. It crossed Illyricum, Macedonia, and Thracia, running through territory that is now part of modern Albania Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . of ...

) connecting the ancient city of

with

Skotoussa Skotoussa ( el, Σκοτούσσα, ) is a village and a former municipality in the Serres (regional unit), Serres regional unit, Greece. Population 5,135 (2011). Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Irakleia, Serr ...

and

Heraclea Sintica Heraclea Sintica, Heracleia Sintica, Хераклея Синтика in Bulgarian or Herakleia Sintike ( grc, Ἡράκλεια Σιντική), or Heraclea ex Sintiis, also known as Heraclea Strymonus or Herakleia Strymonos (Ἡράκλεια Στ ...

. In the Byzantine years there was in the same place the monastery of Agios Nikolaos (the so-called "Kamenikaias") (Greek: ''Μονή Αγίου Νικολάου Καμενικαίας''), which was property of the monastery of

Hilandar The Hilandar Monastery ( sr-cyr, Манастир Хиландар, Manastir Hilandar, , el, Μονή Χιλανδαρίου) is one of the twenty Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Mount Athos in Greece and the only Serbian monastery there. It wa ...

Mount Athos Mount Athos (; el, Ἄθως, ) is a mountain in the distal part of the eponymous Athos peninsula and site of an important centre of Eastern Orthodox monasticism in northeastern Greece. The mountain along with the respective part of the penins ...

. The neighborhood is well known today because in its church of Evangelistria was killed (14 July 1907) the hero of Macedonian struggle ''Kapetan Mitrousis'' (Dimitrios Gogolakis) born in the nearby village of Homontos (

Kapetan Mitrousi Kapetan Mitrousi ( el, Καπετάν Μητρούσι) is a former municipality in the Serres regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Serres, of which it is a municipal unit. It is located in t ...

today).Petros C. Samsaris, An outline of the history of the city of Serres until its liberation (in Greek), in the volume "Serres - Past and Present", Serres 2001, p. 29 (Website of Municipality of Serres)

References

Populated places in Serres (regional unit) Serres {{CentralMacedonia-geo-stub