Kastanoussa

Community in Greece

Kastanoussa Καστανούσσα
Community
41°16′25″N 22°53′33″E / 41.27361°N 22.8925°E / 41.27361; 22.8925
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

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.

Geography

The village is located in the southern foothills of Belasitsa, near the borders with North Macedonia and Bulgaria.

History

In the Ottoman Empire

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

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

^ ^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

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. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)