Sidironero ( gr, Σιδηρόνερο, before 1927: Οσενίτσα - ''Osenitsa'',
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in the Drama regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace
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, Greece
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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Drama
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, of which it is a municipal unit. It lies in the Rhodope Mountains region along the Bulgaria
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n border in the northern part of the Drama regional unit between Kato Nevrokopi
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and Paranesti
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. Its land area is .
The municipal unit is subdivided into two local communities (constituent villages listed in brackets):[
*Sidironero (Kallikarpo, Oropedio, Pappades, Sidironero)
* Skaloti
The population of the municipal unit was 412 inhabitants, of which 228 in Sidironero village, at the 2011 census.
]
References
Populated places in Drama (regional unit)
Chech
Drama, Greece
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