Kamenikia

Kamenikia is the name of a neighborhood in the city of Serres, Greece today.

During the antiquity in the place of Kamenikia was flourishing a settlement depended adiministratively οn the nearby ancient city of Serres. The settlement was located on the hill named "Besik-tepe" on the eastern bank of the stream of St. Barbara (known as "Tsai"), in which there was a little below a bridge (rather wooden). From this bridge was passing a Roman road (branch of via Egnatia) connecting the ancient city of Serres with Scotoussa and Heraclea Sintica.[1]

In the Byzantine years there was in the same place the monastery of Agios Nikolaos (the so-called "Kamenikaias") (Greek: Μονή Αγίου Νικολάου Καμενικαίας), which was property of the monastery of Hilandarios of Mount Athos.[2]

The neighborhood is well known today because in its church of Evangelistria was killed (14 July 1907) the hero of Macedonian struggle Kapetan Mitrousis (Dimitrios Gogolakis | Greek:Δημήτριος Γκογκολάκης) born in the nearby village of Homontos (Kapetan Mitrousi today).[3]

References

  1. ↑ Dimitrios C. Samsaris, A History of Serres (in the Ancient and Roman Times) (in Greek), Thessaloniki 1999, p. 148-149 (Website of Municipality of Serres)
  2. ↑ Petros C. Samsaris, The monastery of Agios Nikolaos Kamenikaias (in Greek), "Makedonika" 26(1988)191-220 & Idem, Byzantine places and monuments in the lower valley of the Strymon river (Today's prefecture of Serres) (in Greek), Serres 2006, p. 351-356 (Website of Municipality of Serres)
  3. ↑ Petros C. Samsaris, An outline of the history of the city of Serres until its liberation (in Greek), in the volume "Serres - Past and Present", Serres 2001, p. 29 (Website of Municipality of Serres)


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