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Vehicle registration
  
ΚΙ

Municipality
  
Regional unit
  
Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Local time
  
Friday 2:51 PM

Administrative region
  
Evropos

Weather
  
11°C, Wind N at 10 km/h, 77% Humidity

Evropos (Greek: Ευρωπός) is a village and a former municipality in the former Paionia Province, Kilkis regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Paionia, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 80.922 km2. Population 4,518 (2011).

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Map of Evropos 610 07, Greece

History

In the Macedonian Struggle (1904–1908) a lot of locals fought for Union with Greece. Some of the Macedonian Fighters were:

  • Petros Pechlivanis, Polypetro
  • Nikolaos Georgiadis, Agios Petros
  • Ioannis Ilkos, Agios Petros
  • Christos Ioannidis, Agios Petros
  • Dimitrios Karastogiannis, Agios Petros
  • Nikolaos Karastogiannis, Agios Petros
  • Athanassios Karatragiannis, Agios Petros
  • Stavros Karatragiannis, Agios Petros
  • Ekaterini Kitsouki, Agios Petros
  • Stavros Kitsoukis, Agios Petros
  • Sotirios Kotzampassis, Agios Petros
  • Athanassios Papadopoulos, Agios Petros
  • Dionyssios Papadopoulos, Agios Petros
  • father Emmanouel Papamanolis, Agios Petros
  • An sixth century bc Kouros found here is exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Kilkis.

    References

    Evropos Wikipedia


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