Nigrita () is a city and a municipality in the Serres regional unit,

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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Visaltia, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 160.888 km². It is situated in the wide plain south of the river Strymonas, at the northern foot of the Kerdylio mountains, in the southern part of the Serres regional unit. Nigrita is located 22 km south of

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, and 92 km northeast of

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History

Near Nigrita have been found several sites of ancient settlements of the Hellenistic and Roman times. One of them was perhaps the site of the ancient city Bisaltia, capital of the Bisaltae, which is known by Stephanus of Byzantium. In the Ottoman tahrir defter (number 7) of 1478 ( Hijri 883), the settlement is recorded as a village with the name , within the

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of '' Siroz''. At the beginning of the 19th century, it was a prosperous town where cotton, silver and copper were processed. The town became a part of

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after the 1913

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. According to the statistics of

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("Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics"), 2,500

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lived in the village in 1900. Kanchov, Vasil, ,

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, 1900, book 2, p. 14. Written as "Нигрита". (in Bulgarian)

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Nigrita is subdivided into the following communities: *Anthi *Flampouro *Nigrita * Terpni *Therma

Historical population

References

{{Authority control Populated places in Serres (regional unit) Visaltia

History

Subdivisions

Historical population

See also

References