Orfani ( el, Ορφάνι, formerly Ορφάνιον - Orfanion) is a village and a former municipality in the Kavala regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace,

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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pangaio, of which it is a municipal unit (municipal unit of Orfano). The municipal unit has an area of 200.862 km². The municipal unit of Orfano has a population of 5,076, and the community of Orfani has 774 inhabitants (2021). The seat of the municipality was Galipsos.

History

In the Ottoman tahrir defter (number 167) of 1530, the settlement is recorded as a village with the name , within the

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of '' Zihne''. The town has been identified with the

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Chrysopolis in Macedonia.Joachim Lelewel, ''Géographie du Moyen Âge'', tomes III et IV (Bruxelles 1852), "la maritime Χρυσόπολις, Grisopoli, ville d'or, à laquelle les Latins donnèrent le nom de Conlessa, laquelle, déplacée par différents désastres, conserve son nom dans Orfano"
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References

Populated places in Kavala (regional unit) Pangaio {{EMacedoniaThrace-geo-stub el:Δήμος Παγγαίου#Δημοτική ενότητα Ορφανού