Nea Zichni is a municipality in the Serres regional unit, of Central Macedonia

Central Macedonia

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 region, Greece

Greece

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. Population 15,073 (2001). Nea Zichni is also the name of the administrative seat of the municipality. Population 2,421 (2001).

History

The city was originally built next to the marches of Lake Achinos, and it was called Ichna . It was a Paionian city, that was sometime in the 5th cBC or early 4th cBC incorporated into the Macedonian Kingdom. Another city by the same name Ichna is mentioned by Thucidides being next to Pella, by the Loudias and Axios Delta. The name Ichna is a Paionian cognate of the Greek word "ichnos" which means "stepping ground" a name appropriate for a city built on the sand between the marsh and the lake (or rhw sea). The original Ichna remained a city throughout the Hellenistic Roman and Byzantine eras, only to be destroyed and was rebuilt far from the lake in its original position on the hills. During the ottoman years it was a kaza centre in Serez

Serres

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 sanjak of Selanik Province

Salonika Province, Ottoman Empire

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 at Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

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 before Balkan Wars

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 as "Zihne".

Municipality

The municipality Nea Zichni was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 2 former municipalities, that became municipal units:

• Alistrati
  Alistrati
  Alistrati is a town and a former municipality in the Serres regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Nea Zichni, of which it is a municipal unit. Population: town 2,764; municipal unit 4,121 . Alistrati is situated at the borders of the regional...
  
  
• Nea Zichni