Administrative Region : Central Macedonia
Regional unit : Kilkis
Sevasto (Σεβαστό) Kilkis
Sevasto is located 6 kilometers east of the city of Kilkis and lies on the east bank of the Gallikos River, near the point where the Spanos River flows. It is a picturesque rural settlement. It belongs to the municipality of Kilkis of the prefecture of Kilkis as well as to the municipal district of the same name.
Historical information
In the mid-15th century, around 1450, under the name Sasoulo, together with the neighboring settlement of Terterovo, it had 25 Christian houses [1].
The inhabitants of the village are Sarakatsanoi and refugees, coming from Pontus and Eastern Thrace. The refugees from Pontus come from the village of Sidiskom, renamed Yalnizcam, in the Ardahan region, Kars Caucasus, to which they moved in 1878 after the Russo-Turkish War from the Argyroupoli region of Pontus, specifically from the villages of Temirtsikioi, Malacha and Artapir. Also, Pontian refugees come from the villages of Ai Foka, Korkota, Sisia and Mouzena in the Argyroupoli region of Pontus, as well as from Baipourti. The residents coming from Eastern Thrace come from the villages of Arkadioupoli (Loulé Burgaz).
The surnames of the families who settled in Sevastos coming from Sindiskom are Akritidis, Amanatidis, Andrianidis, Afentoulidis, Vasiliadis, Georgiadis, Grammatikopoulos, Intzidis Kesidis, Ketikidis, Kosmidis, Marantidis, Myridis, Papadopoulos, Pavlidis and Takhtalidis. The surnames of those coming from Argyroupoli, Baipourti and other areas are Aslanidis, Grigoriadis, Gymnopoulos, Koutalidis, Konstantinidis, Levidis, Mavromatidis, Oulousidis, Ifantidis, Fotiadis and Charalambidis. The surnames of the Sarakatsanai who settled in the village are Loukovitis and Bikos. The old name of the village was Seslovo and it was inhabited mainly by exarchs who, before the population exchange of the Treaty of Neuilly, when they fled to Bulgaria, amounted to approximately 200 people. The village was renamed on 20/8/1927 (Government Gazette 179/1927). With the population exchange, the exarch residents left to be replaced by Greek refugees. In the last census of 2001, the village has 150 residents. Before World War II, over 400 people lived in the village. In the 1940s, there was a large participation of the residents in the National Resistance organizations as well as in the Democratic Army. Thus, at the end of the civil war, many of those who survived in 1964-1966 and after 1974 found themselves in Eastern European countries to return. The result was that the village was deserted during the period after the war and to this day is inhabited mainly by the elderly.
Today
In a location near the village there are also ruins of an old castle. The location where the ruins are located is called Monastiri, indicating that the ruins refer to an old monastery that was abandoned in the past. The stones from the ruins were used by the first refugee residents to build their first stone houses. Also, south of the settlement at a distance of 1 kilometer and within the settlement's farm, were the ruins of an old village called Palaichor, as well as its cemeteries.
Today, the village is mainly inhabited by those engaged in agricultural work and pensioners. Many of the Sevastiotes live in the city of Kilkis, engaged in trade and service provision, but a large part of them also live in the city of Thessaloniki (over 150 families) and attend the main festival of the village, the Holy Spirit. A few are immigrants abroad, in Germany, Sweden, Australia, Switzerland and in the former Eastern countries.
References
Tax categories of the villages of Thessaloniki during the Turkish occupation, Vasilios Dimitriadis, Syngrama Periodikon "Macedonian" of the Society for Macedonian Studies, volume K', Thessaloniki, 1980, p.382
Sources
Population rearrangements in modern Macedonia
| Municipal unit Kilkis |
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| Municipal Community Kilkis |
| Αργυρούπολις, η |
| Zacharato (Ζαχαράτον, το) |
| Kilkis (Κιλκίς, το) |
| Κολχίς, η |
| Metalliko (Μεταλλικό, το) |
| Ξηρόβρυση, η |
| Sevasto (Σεβαστό, το) |
| Community Vaptistis |
| Vaptistis (Βαπτιστής, ο) |
| Kyriakaiika (Κυριακαίικα, τα) |
| Community Kastanies |
| Kastanies (Καστανέαι, αι) |
| Community Kristoni |
| Kristoni (Κρηστώνη, η) |
| Community Leipsydrio |
| Akropotamia (Ακροποταμιά, η) |
| Ano Potamia (Άνω Ποταμιά, η) |
| Kato Potamia (Κάτω Ποταμιά, η) |
| Leipsydrio (Λειψύδριο, το) |
| Community Megali Vrysi |
| Megali Vrysi (Μεγάλη Βρύση, η) |
| Community Melanthio |
| Melanthio (Μελάνθιο, το) |
| Community Mesiano |
| Dafnochori (Δαφνοχώρι, το) |
| Leventochori (Λεβεντοχώρι, το) |
| Mesiano (Μεσιανό, το) |
| Palaio Gynaikokastro (Παλαιόν Γυναικόκαστρον, το) |
| Stavrochori |
| Stavrochori (Σταυροχώρι, το) |
| Community Chorygi |
| Chorygi (Χωρύγι, το) |
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