Kastanoussa ( el, Καστανούσσα), known before 1926 as Palmes ( el, Πάλμες), (known as pulses up to 1926) is a village in
Serres with a population of 592 inhabitants as recorded in the 2011 census.
The village and community belongs to the municipality of Sintiki .
Geography
The village is located in the southern foothills of
Belasitsa
Belasica ( Macedonian and Bulgarian: , also translit. ''Belasitsa'' or ''Belasitza'', Ottoman Turkish: بلش Turkish: ''Beleş''), Belles ( el, Μπέλλες, ''Bélles'') or Kerkini (, ''Kerkíni'';), is a mountain range in the region of M ...
, near the borders with North Macedonia and Bulgaria.
History
In the Ottoman Empire
In 1891 Georgi Strezov wrote:
According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov ("Macedonia. Ethnography and Statistics") by 1900 "Palmesh" ("Palmesha") is a
Bulgarian Muslims
The Bulgarian Muslims or Muslim Bulgarians ( bg, Българи-мохамедани, ''Bǎlgari-mohamedani'', as of recently also Българи-мюсюлмани, ''Bǎlgari-mjusjulmani'', locally called ''Pomak'', ''ahryan'', ''poganets'', '' ...
' settlement . 1150 Bulgarian Muslims were living there at the time.
Under Greek sovereignty
During the
First Balkan War
The First Balkan War ( sr, Први балкански рат, ''Prvi balkanski rat''; bg, Балканска война; el, Αʹ Βαλκανικός πόλεμος; tr, Birinci Balkan Savaşı) lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and invo ...
the village was under Bulgarian control, but after the
Second Balkan War
The Second Balkan War was a conflict which broke out when Bulgaria, dissatisfied with its share of the spoils of the First Balkan War, attacked its former allies, Serbia and Greece, on 16 ( O.S.) / 29 (N.S.) June 1913. Serbian and Greek armies r ...
in 1913 it was incorporated within Greece.
References
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External links
Aerial photo of Kastanoussa
Populated places in Serres (regional unit)
Sintiki
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