Nigrita ( Greek : Νιγρίτα ) is a city and a municipality in the Serres regional unit , Macedonia , Greece . Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Visaltia , of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 160.888 km. It is situated in the wide plain south of the river Strymonas , at the northern foot of the Kerdylio mountains, in the southern part of the Serres regional unit. Nigrita is located 22 km south of Serres , and 92 km northeast of Thessaloniki .
4-576: Near Nigrita have been found several sites of ancient settlements of the Hellenistic and Roman times. One of them was perhaps the site of the ancient city Bisaltia , capital of the Bisaltae , which is known by Stephanus of Byzantium. In the Ottoman tahrir defter (number 7) of 1478 ( Hijri 883), the settlement is recorded as a village with the name Nigrita , within the kaza of Siroz . At
8-487: The beginning of the 19th century, it was a prosperous town where cotton, silver and copper were processed. The town became a part of Kingdom of Greece until after the 1913 Second Balkan War . According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov ("Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics"), 2,500 Greek Christians lived in the village in 1900. The municipal unit Nigrita is subdivided into the following communities: Bisaltia Bisaltia ( Greek : Βισαλτία ) or Bisaltica
12-479: Was an ancient country which was bordered by Sintice on the north, Crestonia on the west, Mygdonia on the south and was separated by Odomantis on the north-east and Edonis on the south-east by river Strymon .The eponymous inhabitants, known as the Bisaltae , were a Thracian people. Later, the region was annexed by the kingdom of Macedon and became one of its districts. The most important town in Bisaltia
16-884: Was the Greek city of Argilos. There was also a river named Bisaltes in the region, which has not been certainly identified. Bisaltia, along with Crestonia, was ruled by a Thracian prince at the time of the invasion of Xerxes I of Persia , but by the onset of the Peloponnesian War it was annexed by Macedon . In Roman times, Bisaltia crossed a branch of the via Egnatia, in which the Roman sources (Itineraria) mention four horses change stations : Trinlo (=Tragilos), Graero , Arason (=Arolos) and Euporia . In various sites of Bisaltia have been found so far several interesting inscriptions of imperial times. Important towns of Bisaltia were Argilos, Berge and Brea . Bisaltia
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