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Ano Vrontou
Άνω ΒροντούLocation 
Ano VrontouCoordinates 41°18′N 23°41′E / 41.3°N 23.683°ECoordinates: 41°18′N 23°41′E / 41.3°N 23.683°E Location within the peripheral unit
Government Country: Greece Region: Central Macedonia Regional unit: Serres Municipality: Serres Population statistics (as of 2001) Municipal unit - Population: 452 Other Time zone: EET/EEST (UTC+2/3) Elevation (center): 1,040 m (3,412 ft) Postal: 621 00 Auto: ΕΡ Ano Vrontou (Greek: Άνω Βροντού; Bulgarian/Macedonian: Горно Броди, Gorno Brodi) is a village and a former community in the northern Serres peripheral unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Serres, of which it is a municipal unit.[1] Its 2001 population was 452. The Drama peripheral unit is bounded to the northeast.
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Nearest places
- Katafyto, north
- Vathytopos, northeast
- Perithori, east
- Kato Vrontou, southeast (distance: 6 km direct, 13 km by road)
- Orini and Ano Orini, southwest
- Karydochori, northwest
Population
Year Population 1873 2,700 1900 6,700 1981 347 1991 408 2001 452 Location
Ano Vrontou is located northwest of Drama 35 km NNE of Serres, northeast of Thessaloniki and south of the border with Bulgaria and the town of Gotse Delchev (Nevrokop).
Geography and panorama
Much of the area around Ano Vrontou are forested, farmlands are situated within the village and grasslands and barren lands within the same elevation as the village.
It is situated by the Vrontous mountains to the west, the Menoikio to the south and Orvilos further north. The mountaintop of 1,653 m is to the north.
History
Vrodi (now Vrontou) was founded in the 14th century by a Serbian tsar Stefan Dušan which h from the area Vrondi (Вронди) or Trilitsa (Трилиса, Trilits, Търлис) region. The Ottmans conquered the area and ruled until the Balkan Wars
It had around 2,700 Bulgarians in 1873
Macedonian Scientific Institute, Sofia 1995, p 116/117
. The area functioned as a Bulgarian area in 1868. By 1900, its population rose to 6,100 Bulgarian Christians. The secretary of the exarch Dimitar Mishev (La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne) the settlement in 1905 had around 6,480 Bulgarian exarchists and 240 Bulgarian partiarchs, thus made it one of the largest places in the modern Greek prefecture.The village had a large activity by VMORO in an Ottoman province. In 1903, the large settlement was visited by Gotse Delchev from the Vanisha. In 1913, it had a population of 1,100 people and 8,000 others.
During the Balkan Wars, the area was conquered and occupied by the Bulgarians until the Second Balkan Wars and later occupied and annexed to Greece and its residents fled northward to Bulgaria, 200 of them to Nevrokop (Gotse Delchev) and 300 fled to Plovdiv, the Turks were later displaced during the Asia Minor Catastrophe and Greeks mostly from Asia Minor settled in the area. Prior to the Second Balkan Wars, it had a Bulgarian majority and a Turkish minority.
After World War II and the Greek Civil War, its buildings were rebuilt. Once a village of around 200 to 300, its population loss began when emigration occurred at a higher rate until 1981, though the population recovered in 2001 and became one of the few in Macedonia to regain the population. Ano Vrontou became connected with asphalt in the 1980s and the 1990s. Electricity, radio and automobiles were introduced in the mid-20th century, television in the late-20th century and computer and internet at the turn of the millennium. In the late-1990s, the community became a newly formed community with a communal district but never became a municipality under the Capodistrian Plan since it is not much populated.
Notable people
- Dimo Hadjidimov, Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) revolutionary leader
- Tasos Stambouloglou (b. 1938), Greek poet and literary critic
- Georgi Sivkov (1909-1964) Leader of the Bulgarian Father Front Otechstven Front
Literature
- Vasil Kanshov on Ano Vrontou (Gorno Brodi)
- Georgi Bazhdarov Gorno Brodi (Горно Броди or Ano Vrontou), Sofia, 1929
- Vidoeski, Bozhidar Gorno Vrodi, Drama, Skopje, 1992 XVII 2, p 5-89
See also
- List of places in the Serres prefecture
References
- ^ Kallikratis law Greece Ministry of Interior (Greek)
External links
Northwest: Sidirokastro North: Drama Prefecture West: Serres Ano Vrontou East: Kato Nevrokopi South: Serres Categories:- Populated places in Serres (peripheral unit)
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