Olympiada ( el, Ολυμπιάδα), known before 1927 as Rakita ( el, Ρακίτα), is a village and a

community A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, tow ...

of the Eordaia municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of

Ptolemaida Ptolemaida ( el, Πτολεμαΐδα, Ptolemaïda, Katharevousa: Πτολεμαΐς, ''Ptolemaïs'') is a town and a former municipality in Kozani regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of th ...

, of which it was a municipal district. The 2011 census recorded 614 inhabitants in the village.

History

Olympiada was first mentioned in an Ottoman

defter A ''defter'' (plural: ''defterler'') was a type of tax register and land cadastre in the Ottoman Empire. Description The information collected could vary, but ''tahrir defterleri'' typically included details of villages, dwellings, household ...

of 1481, the village, then known as ''Rakita'', had forty-five households and produced vines, honey, and swine.

References

Populated places in Kozani (regional unit) Eordaia {{WMacedonia-geo-stub