Proti ( el, Πρώτη) 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
Amphipoli, of which it is a municipal unit.
The municipal unit has an area of 79.241 km
2.
The population of the municipal unit was 2,044 at the 2011 census.
Near Proti has been found an archaeological site that is probably identified with the Roman station of
Egnatia Domeros. From here comes also various ancient inscriptions, among which a Latin inscription that mentions the inhabitants of two ancient settlements (i.e. "Montani" and "Suritani").
[D. C. Samsaris, La vallée du Bas-Strymon á 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. 295-297, n. 157-162]
Notable people
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Constantine Karamanlis
Konstantinos G. Karamanlis ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Γ. Καραμανλής, ; 8 March 1907 – 23 April 1998), commonly Anglicisation, anglicised to Constantine Karamanlis or just Caramanlis, was a four-time prime minister and List of he ...
(1907–1998) conservative politician, four-time prime minister and twice president of Greece
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Christos Govetas
Christos Govetas () was born in the village of Proti, Serres in the province of Serres in Greek Macedonia. After emigrating to Boston in 1978 he joined the Greek rebetiko band Taximi as a bouzouki player and their main vocalist. Since then he has ...
, master Greek traditional musician, singer and recording artist, based in Seattle since the 1980s.
References
Populated places in Serres (regional unit)
Archaeological sites in Macedonia (Greece)
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