The village is located on the northern side of the Prefecture of Rodopi, 34 km from Komotini, near the Filiuri River. The historian Herodotus, recounting the march of Xerxes in Thrace during the Persian Wars, refers to the ancient river Lissos which is identified with today's Filiuri (or Filiuri).
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At a short distance SE of the current village of Porto-Lagos and NE of the village of Fanari, very close to the mouth of Lake Vistonida, the ancient city of Dikaia is usually located. Dikaia was a colony of Samos and was founded in the 6th century BC. The identification of the city is based on the
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The city of Ismaros (or Ismara) has been identified by archaeologists with the acropolis located on the hill of Agios Georgios (altitude 461 m.), east of Maroneia. According to Homer, Odysseus attacked the city, in the land of the Cicones, and slaughtered its inhabitants respecting only the priest
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It is located at the northwestern end of Ismaros, between the villages of Ergani and Xilagani. In the wider area, parts of citadels and burial precincts were found with various gifts (iron manuals, copper coins) dating from the 11th to the 7th BC. century. On the south side of the mound, a gate with
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Neolithic settlement of the 5th millennium BC, near the sea, with significant residential remains and tombs. There was a stone enclosure around the settlement. Along with the local pottery, anthropomorphic figurines with elements of the Balkan tradition were found. The settlement continued to be
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From the area comes a significant number of finds from the entire prehistoric era (ceramics, figurines and tools), from small-scale excavations. At the site of Agios Georgios, acropolis of the late Bronze Age - early Iron Age (15th - 10th century BC), near Maroneia. Cyclopean walls 1330 m long,
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There was an older Thracian settlement, perhaps with the name of Mesimvria, while the Greek city of Zoni was founded at the end of the 7th century BC as a colony of Samothrace. Two continuous precincts have been excavated: the western one that goes up to the acropolis and the more ancient eastern
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Paradimi is a settlement of the Prefecture of Rodopi and is located 8 kilometers southwest of Komotini. Archaeological excavations near the village revealed 17 prehistoric residential layers. The layers are classified into five phases, of which the first four belong to the Neolithic era (about
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The caves of the area were inhabited from the Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age. It was founded by Thasios in the 7th century BC to control the Thracian plain inland. It is located on the peninsula of Molyvotis (Koursoumlou), west of Ismaris lake. The ruins of the ancient city are not preserved in
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Outside Maroneia, 10 km east, at the foot of Ag. Georgiou, in the coastal location of Synaxis, a large three-aisled basilica with a transversal nave was discovered, from the time of Justinian, whose eastern part is built with marble from older buildings of the Antonine era (96-112 AD). A vaulted
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