Administrative Region : Central Macedonia
Regional unit : Serres
Myrkinos (Μύρκινος) Serres
Myrkinos (also known as Doxompos) (Byzantine Greek: Μυρκινος) is a lowland village in the Serres Regional Unit with an altitude of 90 meters[1].
Geography
Myrkinos is located in the south of the Serres plain, about 500 m east of the banks of the Strymon River at the point where the Aggitis tributary ends. It is 21 km. S. from Nea Zichni and 49 km. SE. from Serres. To the northeast and about 300 meters east of the Aggitis River, an ancient cemetery has been identified[2]. The majority of its inhabitants are engaged in agriculture - mainly cotton cultivation, but also grain.
History
Myrkinos was a notable Thracian city, the capital of the Idonians (from the 8th to the 5th century BC), whose location is identical to the present-day village of the same name, where archaeological findings testify to the existence of an ancient city.[3] Shortly before the time of Darius' campaign against the Greeks, in 513 BC, Darius donated the city to Histiaeus of Miletus, as a reward for his services and to guard the Strymon bridge.[1]
Later, Aristagoras attempted to establish a colony in the city, but it was recaptured by the Idonians and became their capital. A year later, in 497 BC, Aristagoras of Miletus attempted to take the city again and fell fighting at its walls, while his army was destroyed. Subsequently, and after the murder of the Idonian king Pittacus by Braurus' wife and his son Goaxos, the city remained free until 424 BC when it was surrendered to the Spartan general Brasidas[1].
As its mention by Appian and Diodorus, as well as the discovery of three inscriptions,[4] Myrkinos survived until the Roman (imperial) era.[5] In Byzantine times it was referred to as Doxompos or Doxompous and is believed to have been one of the coastal settlements of the ancient Kerkinitida lake (today the dried-up lake of Achinos).
The village became known throughout Greece in 1988 through the film Doxompos, which is supposed to take place in Myrkinos in the 14th century.[6]
The settlement formerly housed the Myrkinos Railway Station.
Name - Administrative
The village is officially referred to after the liberation as Doxompos in 1920 in the Government Gazette 2A - 04/01/1920, being annexed to the then community of Kotsaki (Myrrini). In 1927, with the Government Gazette 76A - 02/05/1927, it was renamed Myrkinos and in 1946, with the Government Gazette 373A - 31/12/1946, the community of Myrkinos was established with the settlement as its seat[7]. According to the Kallikratis plan, it constitutes the Local Community of Myrkinos, which falls under the Municipal Unit of Nea Zichni of the Municipality of Nea Zichni and according to the 2011 census, has a population of 199 residents[8].
References
Encyclopedia Nea Domi. Tegopoulos - Maniateas. 1996. p. 273, vol. 23.
"PERMANENT LIST OF DECLARED ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES AND MONUMENTS". listedmonuments.culture.gr. Archived from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
[1] Archived 2017-04-24 at the Wayback Machine. D. C. Samsaris, Historical geography of Eastern Macedonia in antiquity, Thessaloniki 1976 (Society for Macedonian Studies), p. 140. ISBN 960-7265-16-5.
D. C. Samsaris, La vallée du Bas-Strymon á l’ époque impériale (Contribution épigraphique á la topographie, l’ onomastique, l’ histoire et aux cultes de la province romaine de Macédoine), Dodoni 18(1989), vol. 1, pp. 293-294, no. 150-152 = The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 150, # PH150791) The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 151, # PH150792)The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 152, # PH150793)
[2] Archived 2017-04-24 at the Wayback Machine. D. K. Samsaris, Historical geography of Eastern Macedonia in antiquity, p. 141. ISBN 960-7265-16-5.
“DOXOMPOUS - Filmography - Filmography | Film Archive of Greece”. tainiothiki.gr. Archived from the original on 3 December 2019. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
"Administrative Changes of Municipalities and Communitieswebsite=EETAA". Retrieved 29 August 2019.
"Official Gazette of the results of the PERMANENT population", p. 10531 (p. 57 of the pdf)
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