Banitsa (Greek: Καρυαί - Karié, Bulgarian/Macedonian:[1] Баница, Banitsa or Banica, Ottoman Turkish:[2] بانيچه Turkish Baniçe) is a deserted village in Serres regional unit, northern Greece. Its ruins are situated some 15 km north-east of the town of Serres, near the present-day village of Oreini, on the southern slopes of the Vrontous mountains. During the Ottoman period it had a Bulgarian population.[3][4][5][6] The village was destroyed by the Greek Army during the Second Balkan War, and the population migrated to Bulgaria.[7] Its inhabitants settled in Mehomiya, Bachevo, Nevrokop, Sveti Vrach, and Novo Delchevo.
Banitsa was the site of the death of the Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary Gotse Delchev, who was killed in a skirmish with Ottoman police forces on 4 May 1903.[8]
References
- ↑ Republichkata zaednica na kulturata (2005). Sovremenost: literatura, umetnost, opštestveni prašanja (53 ed.). Kočo Racin.
- ↑ Rumeli-i Şahane Haritası, Harvard Map Collection, Ottoman Empire Series, Index Map, 1:210,000 Scale, c. 1901/1902, http://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:4952983$17i Retrieved 11.05.2016
- ↑ Йордан Иванов. „Местните имена между Долна Струма и Долна Места". София, БАН, 1982, стр.20.
- ↑ „Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г." Македонски научен институт, София, 1995, стр.116-117.
- ↑ Васил Кънчов. „Македония. Етнография и статистика". София, 1900, стр.176.
- ↑ D.M.Brancoff. "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne". Paris, 1905, р.198-199.
- ↑ "Weekend - Към Бяло море по стъпките на Гоце - Стандарт". Archived from the original on 4 June 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2010.
- ↑ Vanče Stojčev (2004). Military History of Macedonia. Skopje: Military Academy "General Mihailo Apostolski". ISBN 9989-134-05-7.
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