Myrkinos (Greek: Μύρκινος) is a village in Serres regional unit of Central Macedonia, located at the confluence of the rivers Strymonas and Angitis. Since the 2011 administrative reform it is a municipal unit of the municipality Nea Zichni. It has a population of 370 inhabitants and until 1928 was named “Doxombos”.

History

Myrkinos was a remarkable Thracian city, the capital of Edoni (from the 8th to the 5th century BC), whose place is identical to the present village of the same name, where archaeological findings testify to the existence of an ancient city.[1] As evidenced by Appianos and Diodorus, as well as by finding three inscriptions,[2] Myrkinos survived to the Roman (imperial) times.[3] In Byzantine times it is referred by name “Doxobus”.

References

  1. ↑ Archived 2017-04-24 at the Wayback Machine Dim. C. Samsaris, Historical Geography of Eastern Macedonia during the Antiquity (in Greek), Thessaloniki 1976 (Society for Macedonian Studies), p. 140. ISBN 960-7265-16-5
  2. ↑ Dim. 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), Dodona 18(1989), fasc. 1, p. 293-294, n. 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)
  3. ↑ Archived 2017-04-24 at the Wayback Machine Dim. C. Samsaris, Historical Geography of Eastern Macedonia during the Antiquity (in Greek), Thessaloniki 1976 (Society for Macedonian Studies), p. 141. ISBN 960-7265-16-5

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