Kastanoussa (Greek: Καστανούσσα), known before 1926 as Palmes (Greek: Πάλμες), (known as pulses up to 1926[2]) is a village and a community in Serres with a population of 635 inhabitants as recorded in the 2021 census.[1] The village and community belongs to the municipality of Sintiki.
Kastanoussa
Καστανούσσα | |
|---|---|
  Kastanoussa | |
| Coordinates: 41°16′25″N 22°53′33″E / 41.27361°N 22.8925°E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | Central Macedonia |
| Regional unit | Serres |
| Municipality | Sintiki |
| Municipal unit | Kerkini |
| Elevation | 274 m (899 ft) |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
| • Community | 635 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 620 55 |
| Area code(s) | +30 23270 |
| Vehicle registration | EP |
Geography edit
The village is located in the southern foothills of Belasitsa, near the borders with North Macedonia and Bulgaria.
History edit
In the Ottoman Empire edit
In 1891 Georgi Strezov wrote:
Palmesh, several neighbourhoods on the west of Poroy [modern name of Ano Poroia], 6 hours drive at the foot of Belasitsa and Pear mountain. Approximately 200 houses, all Pomaks. They speak Bulgarian with a slight difference from Poroy; they dress in a special red garment-anther and poturi. They come to the market in Poroy with fish from Doiran Lake.[3]
According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov ("Macedonia. Ethnography and Statistics") by 1900 "Palmesh" ("Palmesha") is a Bulgarian Muslims' settlement . 1150 Bulgarian Muslims were living there at the time. [4]
Under Greek sovereignty edit
During the First Balkan War the village was under Bulgarian control, but after the Second Balkan War in 1913 it was incorporated within Greece.
References edit
- ^ a b "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
- ^ Μετονομασίες των Οικισμών της Ελλάδας. Πάλμες -- Καστανούσσα
- ^ Stresov 1891, p. 860.
- ^ Kanchov 1996, p. 185.
Bibliography edit
- Kanchov, Vasil (1996) [1900]. Makedonija : etnografija i statistika [Macedonia: Ethnography and statistics] (in Bulgarian). Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. ISBN 978-9-54-430424-9. OCLC 164844115.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - Stresov, Georgi (1891). Два санджака отъ Источна Македония [Two sanjaks from Eastern Macedonia] (PDF) (in Bulgarian). Sofia: Dŭrzhavna pechatnitsa.
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