The ancient settlement that was discovered on the banks of the Almopeia river, SE of the Municipal Division of Aloros, of the Municipality of Aridaia in the prefecture of Pella, was one of the cities of ancient Almopia, as can be seen from its fortified form and from its important position that gave
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The Palace of the ancient city of Pella is located on an area of more than 60,000 square meters. on the top of the hill to the west of the present town. The remains of the building complex, the peristyle courtyard, the galleries, etc. date from the 4th century BC. and then. The monumental building
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The acropolis of ancient Kyrros and the fortified city of the early Byzantine era are located south of Arabyssos, on the site of the village "Paleokastro" which was abandoned in 1927. Kyrros is mentioned as a city as early as the 5th century BC (Thucydides, 11, 100, 4). The city flourished
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The settlement of Archontikos is located at a distance of five kilometers from Pella and ten kilometers from Axios. In the area of Archontiko Pella, the most important settlement of the country of Pella is being excavated even today, which during the Hellenistic and Roman years belonged to Pella,
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At a distance of 4.5 km NW. of Pella an impressive monument was found, known as the "Heroon of Archontiko". It consists of a circular platform with relief shields on some stone plinths and was covered by a conical mound. The monument was intended to receive the Macedonian tomb of some illustrious
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The first inhabitants of the city were the Phrygians who were later expelled by the Macedonians. In the years of Philip II (356 - 336 BC) it was fortified and developed into an important urban center of ancient Vottiaia. In Roman times it was a station on the Egnatia Odos. The "upper city" (citadel)
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The Thesmoforio was discovered on a plot of land of the modern settlement of Pella, while excavation work was being carried out for the construction of a building. It consists of a small enclosure in the earth, 10 m in diameter, which defined the sacred space, accessible by two sloping levels of
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The sanctuary of the local god Darron was discovered in the SW part of the ancient city of Pella, in the area of the modern irrigation canal, in the immediate vicinity of a monumental road of the ancient city, which led from the port to its center. In the sanctuary of Darron, the excavation
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The Sanctuary of the Mother of the Gods (Kyveli) and Aphrodite is located in the building block north of the market of the ancient city of Pella and occupies its entire width, i.e. about 47 m. The sanctuary complex consists of a large outdoor area with a small shrine in the southern part and
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At a distance of a little more than one kilometer southwest of Menida, in the place of Karydia, in the area of Prophet Ilias, immediately west of Moglenitsa, an ancient settlement with a cemetery and burial shrine was located. In the eastern cemetery of the settlement, among others, two tombstones
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During the excavations in ancient Pella, impressive bathing facilities were discovered, originally dating from around 325-300 BC. and is one of the oldest in Greece. These facilities were public baths, equipped with innovative water and sewage systems, a swimming pool, a sauna, as well as individual
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In the 5th eastern mound of Pella, the Macedonian Tomb C of the prefecture of Pella was found. It is a two-chamber vaulted Macedonian tomb with an Ionic facade facing east and formed by four tall columns. It has a width of 5.80 m and a length of 7.70 m. Remains of colored mortars preserved on the
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Macedonian Tomb D was found near the southern base of the fourth mound of the Eastern cemetery of Pella. It is a two-chambered vaulted Macedonian tomb with a Doric facade of four semi-columns. It is 10.60 m long, 6.15 m wide and high, while it is covered with a continuous chamber opening 4.70 m. It
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In the center of the first mound of the western cemetery of Pella, the excavations brought to light the violated tomb VI, which is 8.50 m long, 4.80 m wide and 4.80 m high. Its non-architectural facade, facing south, is covered with mortar. A long, 2m wide sloping road leads to the entrance of the
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The ancient city of Meniis is located on the "Iron Gates" hill (Demir Kapou), 3.5 km north of Kali. The hill with its steep sides is surrounded from the north, west and south by the river Moglenitsa, while from its far eastern and more easily accessible side, as well as from the south, it is
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The mound cemetery in the Municipal District of Constantia dates, based on archaeological findings, to the Iron Age and its use reaches up to the 7th century BC. During the excavations in 1995 and 2000, a new mound cemetery was identified and investigated at the Xirika site, south of the Konstantia
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The recent excavations of the community of Axos, brought to light part of a particularly important Neolithic settlement, which covered an area of at least 30 acres. The section that was carried out on a plot of land that had an area of 100 sq.m. revealed many elements of its residential
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Ancient Pella, as revealed by the excavations, is built with rectangular building blocks, 47 m wide. The length of the building blocks varies, but the most common is 125 m. In each building block there were two or more houses. The largest of those located in the central archaeological site of
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Pella, a small town on the shores of the Thermaic gulf, became the capital of the Macedonian state at the end of the 5th and beginning of the 4th century. BC, replacing Aiges, and soon developed into the most important political, economic and cultural center of all of Greece. In all probability the
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The Prehistoric Settlement of Archontiko Giannitsa comes to enrich the hitherto fragmentary picture we had of Macedonian prehistory. The settlement is located south of Archontiko, between ancient Pella and Giannitsa, while it is 4 km from each of these two cities. It has the form of a bank-bank with
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In Mandalo Giannitsa, at the foot of Mount Paiko, a site was excavated during the 1980s where there was a settlement of the Late Neolithic period and the early Bronze Age (4,500-3,200 BC) The excavation revealed stilt houses and a stone enclosure 20 m long, 2.5 m wide and 1.5 m high, which
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In 30 BC, after the destruction of Hellenistic Pella, Octavian founded 1.5 km west of the Hellenistic capital, in the area north of the "Baths of Alexander the Great", in a new current location on Egnatia Street, Roman colony of Pella, also known as Colonia Pella. Building remains, coins, and
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In Sosandra, Aridaia, near Pella, Western Macedonia, a 6,000-year-old farmhouse has come to light, which retains all its household equipment in perfect condition in the position where the occupants left it shortly before the house was destroyed by fire. The discovery of this prehistoric house
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Near the southern base of the mound of Messianos, the violated tomb of Giannitsa was found, the facade of which had been stoned in ancient times. It is 6.70m wide. length 10.30 m. and height 6.10m. and is covered with a continuous arch opening 5.10m. Originally four Doric semi-columns supported the
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