Administrative Region : Central Macedonia
Regional unit : Imathia
Loutros (Λουτρός) Imathia
Loutros is a settlement in Central Macedonia in the Regional Unit of Imathia.[1][2]
Geographical - Historical information
Loutros is located in the Aliakmonas plain, near the northern banks of the river and at an altitude of 18 meters.[1] It is approximately 7 km. SW. from Alexandreia (seat of the municipality) and 55 km. W. from Thessaloniki (via Egnatia Odos). To the north of the village is the Loutro railway station where the Thessaloniki - Florina railway line passes, while to the south end is the Egnatia Odos. The parish church is the church of Saints Constantine and Helen (western end).[3] South of the village, in a cluster of trees, is the female Monastery of Agia Kyriaki.[4]
Loutros is mentioned from the period of Turkish rule and was located southeast of the lake-marsh of Giannitsa, which was drained in 1932-1936, while historically it is included in the villages of the Roumlouki region.[5] It was part of the kaza of Thessaloniki of the then Ottoman Empire. Alexander Sinve (in the book "Les Grecs de l' Empire Ottoman. Etude Statistique et Ethnographique") in 1878 wrote that 276 Greeks lived in Loutro of the Diocese of Campania.[6]
Administrative - Population data
After the Balkan Wars and the liberation of Macedonia, it is officially mentioned in 1918 as the seat of the newly founded community of the same name.[7] According to the "Kallikratis" Program and its amendment by Kleisthenis I, together with the Exokklisi, they constitute the community of Loutro[8] which falls under the Municipal Unit of Alexandria of the Municipality of Alexandreia, while according to the 2011 census, 1,277 residents were registered.[9]
The population censuses after World War II are:
Census 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011
Population 987[10] 1,175[11] 1,253[12] 1,234[13] 1,286[14] 1,294[15] 1,227
External links
Archival descriptions for Loutros (Imathia) from the National Archives Index of the General State Archives.
"Excursion to Agia Kyriaki, in the village of Loutros, Imathia, on the day of the festival" Archived 2022-12-27 at the Wayback Machine. from the Public Central Library of Veria
Holy Monastery of Agia Kyriaki Imathia from the website https://www.monastiria.gr/
References
Encyclopedia Papyrus Larousse Britannica. 39. Papyrus Publishing House. 1996. p. 269.
"Loutros". Municipality of Alexandria. March 22, 2019. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
Bekes, Gerasimos. "Archhieratic Region of Alexandria". www.imverias.gr. Archived from the original on December 27, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
"Holy Monastery of Agia Kyriaki Loutro". www.imverias.gr. Archived from the original on December 27, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
Travel Notes of Macedonia & Epirus, Nikolaos Schinas, Engineer Major, Athens 1886, Evangelos Papakostas Library.
Synvet, A. «Les Grecs de l'Empire Ottoman: Etude statistique et ethnographique . 2nd edition. 1878. Pg. 37. (in French)». Constantinople: Imprimerie de «l'Orient illustré».
«EETAA-Administrative Changes of Settlements». www.eetaa.gr. Retrieved on December 27, 2022.
"Law 4555/2018 - Official Gazette 133/A/19-7-2018 (Articles 1 - 151) (CLOSED Program) (Codified)". e-nomothesia.gr | Legislation Information Bank. Retrieved on November 30, 2022.
"Official Gazette of results of PERMANENT population", p. 10509 (p. 35 of pdf)
Population of Greece according to the census of March 7, 1951, p. 71 of pdf. Archived from the original on 2013-05-14.
Population of Greece according to the census of March 19, 1961, p. 74 of pdf.
Population of Greece at the census of 14 March 1971, p. 73 of pdf. Archived from the original on 2013-05-14. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
Actual population of Greece at the census of 5 April 1981, p. 84 of pdf.
Actual population of Greece at the census of 17 March 1991, p. 94 of pdf.
Actual population of Greece - Census 2001, p. 96 of pdf.
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