Nigrita

For the genus of birds called Nigrita, see Nigrita (bird).

Nigrita (Greek: Νιγρίτα) is a city and a municipality in the Serres regional unit, Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Visaltia, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.^[2] The municipal unit has an area of 160.888 km².^[3] It is situated in the wide plain south of the river Strymonas, at the northern foot of the Kerdylio mountains, in the southern part of the Serres regional unit. Nigrita is located 22 km south of Serres, and 92 km northeast of Thessaloniki.

Nigrita Νιγρίτα
Municipal unit
Nigrita Location within the regional unit
Coordinates: 40°54′N 23°32′E
Country	Greece
Administrative region	Central Macedonia
Regional unit	Serres
Municipality	Visaltia
Districts	Center
Area
• Municipal unit	160.9 km2 (62.1 sq mi)
Elevation	67 m (220 ft)
Population  (2021)[1]
• Municipal unit	7,865
• Municipal unit density	49/km2 (130/sq mi)
• Community	4,892
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	622 00
Area code(s)	+30 2322
Vehicle registration	ΕΡ
Website	www.dimosvisaltias.gr

History

Near Nigrita have been found several sites of ancient settlements of the Hellenistic and Roman times. One of them was perhaps the site of the ancient city Bisaltia, capital of the Bisaltae, which is known by Stephanus of Byzantium.^[4]

In the Ottoman tahrir defter (number 7) of 1478 (Hijri 883),^[5] the settlement is recorded as a village with the name Nigrita, within the kaza of Siroz.^[6] At the beginning of the 19th century, it was a prosperous town where cotton, silver and copper were processed. The town became a part of Kingdom of Greece until after the 1913 Second Balkan War.

According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov ("Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics"), 2,500 Greek Christians lived in the village in 1900.^[7]

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Nigrita is subdivided into the following communities:

• Anthi
• Flampouro
• Nigrita
• Terpni
• Therma

Historical population

Year	Town population	Municipality population
1991	6,186	10,668
2001	5,566	9,783
2011	4,947	8,963
2021	4,892	7,865

See also

• List of settlements in the Serres regional unit
• Austen Harrison, town planner of Nigrita after WWI

References

1. "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
2. "ΦΕΚ A 87/2010, Kallikratis reform law text" (in Greek). Government Gazette.
3. "Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)" (PDF) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece.
4. Archived 2017-04-24 at the Wayback Machine D. C. Samsaris, Historical Geography of Eastern Macedonia during the Antiquity (in Greek), Thessaloniki 1976 (Society for Macedonian Studies), p. 109, 115. ISBN 960-7265-16-5.
5. Özkılınç, Ahmet; Coşkun, Ali; Sivridağ, Abdullah; Yüzbaşıoğlu, Murat, eds. (2003). 167 Numaralı Muhâsebe-i Vilâyet-i Rûm-ili Defteri (937/1530) I (in Turkish). Ankara, Türkiye: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü. p. 9. ISBN 978-975-19-3673-8.
6. Ünal, Uğur; Budak, Mustafa; Bayram, Sabahattin; Yıldıztaş, Mümin (2013). Özkılınç, Ahmet; Coşkun, Ali; Sivridağ, Abdullah (eds.). Osmanlı Yer Adları: I - RUMELİ EYALETİ (1514-1550) (PDF) (in Turkish). Ankara, Türkiye. pp. VII–VIII, 618. ISBN 9789751962386.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
7. Kanchov, Vasil, Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics, Sofia, 1900, book 2, p. 14. Written as "Нигрита". (in Bulgarian)