Ammoudia, Serres

Greece Greece

Administrative Region : Central Macedonia
Regional unit : Serres

mmoudia is a village in the Prefecture of Serres, built at an altitude of 30 m. Administratively, it is the seat of a local community of the same name, which belongs to the municipal unit of Skotoussa of the Municipality of Irakleia. It is 22 kilometers from the city of Serres and belongs to the province of Sintiki. According to the 2021 census, it has a population of 668 residents. The local community of Ammoudia is characterized as a rural lowland settlement, with an area of 11.829 km² (2011).[1]

E.G.S. Iraklis Ammoudias Serres

The village is home to the football club E.G.S. Iraklis Ammoudias Serres, also called Ammoudia (Serres), founded in 1952. One of its most important historical results is the away victory over the "heavy jersey" of Apollon Kalamaria.

Information

The old name of the village is "Koumpli" and comes from the word "goum" which means sand. It remains unknown when the first residents settled, with the most likely year being 1830. Oral tradition says that the current location is the third or fourth, as the residents moved due to floods or due to the contagious disease of cholera. The first time they settled 2 kilometers south of Irakleia, near the village of Sarakatsanaiko. It is said that in the current location there was previously an orchard with one family, near which others came and thus the current village was created. In 1924, Pontian refugees who came from the village of Ak Dag Maten in Pontus, in the Diocese of Chaldea, settled in the village. Also, the villages of Valtero and Gefyroudi were formerly part of the community. As for utilities, electricity came to the village for the first time in the winter of 1952 or 1953, while water was previously pumped through wells and wells. The residents are engaged in agriculture, such as the cultivation of sugar beets, cotton, corn, peanuts, etc. The village is famous throughout Greece for producing the best and tastiest peanuts in Greece, which is why everyone knows it as the Peanut Village [2] of the Serraikos plain. Also, 2-3 are engaged in livestock farming.

Population
Permanent [3][4][5]
Year Population
1991 1,105
2001 1,055
2011 992
2021 668
Real (de facto) [1][6][7]
Year Population
1961 1,590
1971 1,195
1981 1,262
1991 1,145
2001 1,124
2011 968

References

https://www.statistics.gr/2011-census-pop-hous
«8th Pistachio Festival in Ammoudia, Serres (video) - Epiloges».
https://www.eetaa.gr/metaboles/apografes/apografi_2011_monimos.pdf
https://www.eetaa.gr/metaboles/apografes/apografi_2001_monimos.pdf
https://www.eetaa.gr/metaboles/apografes/apografi_1991_monimos.pdf
PL 2:726-7

PLM 7:434

Sources

Encyclopedia Papyrus Larousse Britannica, 1981, 2006 (PLM)
Encyclopedia Papyrus Larousse, 1963 (PL)

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