Administrative Region : Central Macedonia
Regional unit : Serres
Zervochori, Serres is a settlement in the prefecture of Serres. Administratively, it belonged to the Municipality of Achinos until 2010, when it was abolished. Since 2011, it belongs to the newly created Municipality of Visaltia. It is located at an altitude of 170 meters[1] and in 2001 it had 117 residents according to the census (while in 1914 it had 146 residents[2] and in 1928 248 residents and a primary school).
The postal code of the village is 62200 and there is the church of Agios Antonios, which belongs to the Holy Metropolis of Serres and Nigritis[3]. Two kilometers south of the village is the hill of Paliokastro, where there is a settlement[4] and a necropolis from classical times, as well as a prehistoric site that has been declared an archaeological site[5]. Zervochori is located very close to Choumniko, Serres and Sitochori, Serres, where there is also the primary school / high school attended by the children of the village. Its distance from Nigrita is 10 km, from Serres 34 km and from Thessaloniki 85 km. It is located on the road from Nigrita to Amphipolis.
Community
Zervochori is the seat of the homonymous community of the prefecture of Serres, when it was established with the Government Gazette 2A - 03/01/1935 with the detachment of the settlement of Zervochori from the Community of Choumniko. The community was then subject to the Prefecture of Thessaloniki (Government Gazette 257A - 31/07/1941) and after a year (Government Gazette 292A - 14/11/1942), again to the prefecture of Serres. It was abolished in 1997 with the Government Gazette 244A - 04/12/1997 and merged with the Municipality of Achinos. Today, the community has been re-established and has a total area of 7,700 square meters[6].
Below are data on the administrative situation of Zervochori[7]:
Until 1935, Zervochori belonged to the community of Choumnikou (formerly Choumkou) of the Nigritis province.
From 1935 to 1941, it was the seat of the Community of Zervochori of the prefecture of Serres.
From 1941 to 1942, it was the seat of the Community of Zervochori of the prefecture of Thessaloniki.
From 1942 to 1998, it was the seat of the Community of Zervochori in the prefecture of Serres
From 1999 to 2010, it was the seat of the Municipal District of Zervochori in the Municipality of Achinos in the Prefecture of Serres[8].
Since 2011, it has been the seat of the Community of Zervochori in the Municipal Unit of Achinos in the Municipality of Visaltia.
Population
The evolution of the population of Zervochori shows that between 1950 and 1960 it had the most inhabitants[9]:
1914 146 inhabitants
1928 248
1951 302
1961 309
1971 205
1981 173
1991 167
Persons
Kostas Papapanagiotou, Greek politician and lawyer, Prefect of Serres (2003-06)
References
"Zervochori Serres". www.hellenica.de. Archived from the original on 8 February 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
"Census by settlement of the inhabitants of the Greek part of Macedonia in the year 1913". Source: Kingdom of Greece - Ministry of National Economy - Directorate of Statistics, Athens, from the National Printing House. 1915. Archived from the original on 10 February 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
"Churches of the Holy Metropolis of Serres and Nigritis". Archived from the original on 29 August 2007. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
[1] Archived 2017-04-24 at the Wayback Machine. D. K. Samsaris, Historical geography of Eastern Macedonia in antiquity, Thessaloniki 1976 (Society for Macedonian Studies), p. 171. ISBN 960-7265-16-5
"Permanent Catalogue of the Declared Archaeological Sites of Greece". Archived from the original on 4 December 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
"Extent of Municipalities". Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
"Administrative Changes". Retrieved 5 February 2011.[dead link]
"Municipality of Achinos". Chamber of Serres. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
Vangelis Giberitis Informatics - Author. "Censuses of the actual population of the Prefecture of Serres from 1920 to 1991". (the author states that the data comes from the Ministry of Interior). Archived from the original on 2 June 2009. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
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