Lefkonas ( el, Λευκώνας) is a village and a former municipality in the
Serres regional unit,
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 ...
. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality
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 ...
, of which it is a municipal unit.
The municipal unit has an area of 68.247 km
2.
Population 3,905 (2011).
Near the village - on the hill of "Simitzi-bair" - the location of an ancient settlement has been found.
Dimitrios C. Samsaris, A History of Serres (in the Ancient and Roman Times) (in Greek), Thessaloniki 1999, p. 164 (Website of Municipality of Serres)
Notable people
* Sakis Anastasiadis
*Kostas Tsimikas
Konstantinos Tsimikas ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Τσιμίκας; born 12 May 1996) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Premier League club Liverpool and the Greece national team.
Tsimikas previously played for O ...
*Christos Archontidis
Christos Archontidis ( el, Χρήστος Αρχοντίδης) (26 June 1938 – 22 October 2019) was a Greek football manager.
He managed Korinthos, Greece, Doxa Drama, PAS Giannina, Iraklis, Diagoras, Panachaiki, PAOK, Apollon Smyrnis, ...
* Iraklis Kyriakidis
External links
Local Authority (Dimos) Webpage
See also
List of settlements in the Serres regional unit
This is a list of settlements in the Serres regional unit, Greece:
* Achinos
* Achladochori
* Adelfiko
* Agia Eleni
* Agia Paraskevi
* Agio Pnevma
* Agiochori
* Agios Christoforos
* Agios Dimitrios
* Agkistro
* Agriani
* Aidonochori
* A ...
References
Populated places in Serres (regional unit)
Archaeological sites in Macedonia (Greece)
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