Serres

Serres is a town in Macedonia, Greece, capital of the Serres local unit and 2nd biggest metropolis inside the location of Central Macedonia, after Thessaloniki. Serres is one of the administrative and financial centers of Northern Greece. The city is situated in a fertile undeniable at an elevation of about 70 metres 230 ft, a few 24 kilometres 15 miles northeast of the Strymon river and sixty nine km north-east of Thessaloniki, respectively.

Although the earliest mention of Serres as Siris is courting within the fifth century BC Herodotus, the town was based lengthy earlier than the Trojan War, likely at the beginning of the second millennium BC. The historic city changed into constructed on a excessive and steep hill known as Koulas just north of Serres. It held a completely strategic position, since it controlled a land avenue, which following the valley of the river Strymon led from the beaches of Strymonian Gulf to the Danubian nations.

The most ancient known population of the place have been the Bryges Phrygians and Strymonians. Afterwards had been the Paeonian tribes of the Siropaiones considering 1100 BC and Odomantes from the early 5th century BC until the give up of antiquity These populations in particular engaged in agriculture and farm animals-elevating mainly worshiped the Sun, the deified river Strymon and later the "Thracian horseman”. The historical city of Serraepolis was founded in Cilicia through Siropaiones exiled from Serres.