Provatas (

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: Προβατάς) is a larger village in

Kapetan Mitrousi Kapetan Mitrousi ( el, Καπετάν Μητρούσι) is a former municipality in the Serres regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Serres, of which it is a municipal unit. It is located in t ...

, Serres regional unit, northern

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. It has 1,099 inhabitants (2011 census). Until 1923, the village was called ''Yenikoi'' or ''Yeniköy'' and inhabited mostly by Turks and Bulgarians.
It was hard fought over on October 3 and 4, 1916, between the

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and the Bulgarian Army. The Irish took and held the village, despite fierce and costly counterattacks by the Bulgarians.The Capture of Yenikoi in Oct 1916
The Salonika Campaign. ''Dublin Fusiliers.com''. Retrieved 26 February 2015.

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Populated places in Serres (regional unit) {{CMacedonia-geo-stub