Krinida ( el, Κρηνίδα) is a village in
Serres regional unit of
Central Macedonia,
Greece, located 48 km southeast of the city of
Serres. Since
2011 administrative reform it is a municipal unit of the municipality of
Amphipolis and has a population of 573 inhabitants. Until 1958 it was named Vitasta.
History
Antiquity
About two kilometers north of Krinida, in the sites of “Toumba” or “Palia vouna”, there was a Roman settlement, dependent administratively on the Roman colony of
Philippi
Philippi (; grc-gre, Φίλιπποι, ''Philippoi'') was a major Greek city northwest of the nearby island, Thasos. Its original name was Crenides ( grc-gre, Κρηνῖδες, ''Krenides'' "Fountains") after its establishment by Thasian colon ...
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in this place was found fragments of Roman pottery and a Latin inscription (of imperial times), which mentions a Roman settler of Philippi. In the place "Palia ecclesia" was also found a Greek votive inscription in the "Hero of Avlonitis" (3rd century AD), where are mentioned Thracian and Roman names.
[D. C. Samsaris, Le culte du cavalier Thrace dans la vallée du Bas-Strymon á l’ époque romaine (Recherches sur la localisation de ses sanctuaires), Dritter Internationaler Thrakologischer Kongress (2-6 juni 1980 Wien), 1984, p.285-286 -- D. C. Samsaris, La vallée du Bas-Strymon à 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. 298-300, n. 165-166 ]
The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 165, # PH150806)The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 166, # PH150807)
/ref> The existence of Thracian population allows the conclusion that the settlement existed before the Roman conquest and belonged to the ancient Edonis
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References
Populated places in Serres (regional unit)
Archaeological sites in Macedonia (Greece)
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