Oreini () ( Bulgarian: Горно Фръщани, Gorno Frashtani) is a village and a former community in the Serres regional unit,

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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality

Serres Serres ( ) is a city in Macedonia, Greece, capital of the Serres regional unit and second largest city in the region of Central Macedonia, after Thessaloniki. Serres is one of the administrative and economic centers of Northern Greece. The c ...

, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 54.309 km². Population is 575 inhabitants (2021). Northeast of the modern village (approximately 2 km), on the hill of "Prophet Helias", the site of a Roman settlement has been identified. His foundation, dating back to early antiquity, is associated with the rich iron mines of mountain Vrontous, as is evidenced by the discovery of an iron smelter side the ruins of a Roman castle, located 3–4 km east of the hill of "Prophet Helias".Dimitrios C. Samsaris
Ancient castle and iron smelter near the modern village Oreini of Serres
(in Greek), Makedonika 19 (1979), p. 240-251 The ruins of

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, a formerly Bulgarian inhabited village abandoned in 1913, are also nearby.

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Populated places in Serres (regional unit) Serres Archaeological sites in Macedonia (Greece) {{CentralMacedonia-geo-stub

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