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[[Image:Amyndeo (Sorovits) Railway station-1894.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Amyntaio railway station in 1894]] |
[[Image:Amyndeo (Sorovits) Railway station-1894.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Amyntaio railway station in 1894]] |
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[[Image:Florina-Prefecture-Greece-subdivisions.png|thumb|right|350px|Map of Florina Prefecture showing Amydeo municipality]] |
[[Image:Florina-Prefecture-Greece-subdivisions.png|thumb|right|350px|Map of Florina Prefecture showing Amydeo municipality]] |
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'''Amyntaio''' (also '''Amydeo''', {{lang-el|Αμύνταιο}}, [[ |
'''Amyntaio''' (also '''Amydeo''', {{lang-el|Αμύνταιο}}, [[South Slavic languages]]: Суровичево, ''Surovičevo'') is a town and [[Municipalities and communities of Greece|municipality]] in the [[Florina Prefecture]] of [[Macedonia (Greece)|Macedonia]], [[Greece]]. The population of Amyntaio proper is 4,407, while that of the entire municipality is 8,378 (2001).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amyntaio.gr/taftotita/pleonektimata.htm|title=Δημογραφικά Χαρακτηριστικά|publisher=Δήμος Αμυνταίου|language=Greek|accessdate=2008-10-26}}</ref> Amyntaio station is a railway junction, where the [[Railway Line Kozani - Amyntaio|line to Kozani]] branches off from the Platy-Florina main line. |
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==Archaeological excavations== |
==Archaeological excavations== |
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Amyntaio (also Amydeo, Greek: Αμύνταιο, South Slavic languages: Суровичево, Surovičevo) is a town and municipality in the Florina Prefecture of Macedonia, Greece. The population of Amyntaio proper is 4,407, while that of the entire municipality is 8,378 (2001).[1] Amyntaio station is a railway junction, where the line to Kozani branches off from the Platy-Florina main line.
Archaeological excavations
On March 4, 2007, an unknown civilization around four lakes that lasted from 6000 BC to 60 BC has been uncovered in two important excavations of a Neolithic and an Iron Age settlement in the Amyntaio district of Florina, northern Greece.
A 7,300-year-old home with a timber floor, remnants of food supplies and blackberry seeds are among the findings in a Neolithic settlement near the lakes of Vegoritis, Petres, Heimatitida and Zazari. Garments, women’s fashions and burial customs in northern Eordaia 3,000 years ago are coming to light among the hundreds of funeral offerings in a forgotten necropolis dating from the Iron Age in western Macedonia.
More than 100 years after the excavation at Aghios Pandeleimonas in Amyntaio in the Florina prefecture – known in the bibliography as the Pateli Necropolis – by the Russian Archaeological Institute of Istanbul, a systematic investigation of 12 tombs by the 17th Antiquities Ephorate has found a total of 358 tombs dating from between 950 BC and 550 BC. Although the first discovery in 1898 of 376 graves produced many findings, now in the Istanbul Museum, the necropolis between the lakes of Heimatitida and Petres has revealed hundreds more graves.
Villages in Amyntaio municipality
References
- ^ "Δημογραφικά Χαρακτηριστικά" (in Greek). Δήμος Αμυνταίου. Retrieved 2008-10-26.
External links
- Official website of Amyntaio Municipality (in Greek).
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