Krinida (Greek: Κρηνίδα) is a village in Serres regional unit of Central Macedonia, Greece, located 48 km southeast of the city of Serres. Since 2011 administrative reform it is a municipal unit of the municipality of Amphipolis and has a population of 573 inhabitants. Until 1958 it was named Vitasta.
History
Antiquity
About two kilometers north of Krinida, in the sites of “Toumba” or “Palia vouna”, there was a Roman settlement, dependent administratively on the Roman colony of Philippi. in this place was found fragments of Roman pottery and a Latin inscription (of imperial times), which mentions a Roman settler of Philippi. In the place "Palia ecclesia" was also found a Greek votive inscription in the "Hero of Avlonitis" (3rd century AD), where are mentioned Thracian and Roman names. The existence of Thracian population allows the conclusion that the settlement existed before the Roman conquest and belonged to the ancient Edonis.
References
- Archived 2017-04-24 at the Wayback Machine D. C. Samsaris, Historical Geography of Eastern Macedonia during the Antiquity (in Greek), Thessaloniki 1976 (Society for Macedonian Studies), p. 182. ISBN 960-7265-16-5
- D. C. Samsaris, Le culte du cavalier Thrace dans la vallée du Bas-Strymon á l’ époque romaine (Recherches sur la localisation de ses sanctuaires), Dritter Internationaler Thrakologischer Kongress (2-6 juni 1980 Wien), 1984, p.285-286 -- D. C. Samsaris, La vallée du Bas-Strymon à 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. 298-300, n. 165-166 = The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 165, # PH150806) The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 166, # PH150807)
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