:Nea Zichni

The city was originally built next to the marches of Lake Achinos, on the hill of "Toumba" (2 km south of Nea Zichni)[http://www.ems.gr/analytikos-katalogos-ekdoseon/makedoniki-vivliothiki/049-samsaris.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170424003106/http://www.ems.gr/analytikos-katalogos-ekdoseon/makedoniki-vivliothiki/049-samsaris.html|date=24 April 2017}} Dimitrios C. Samsaris, Historical Geography of Eastern Macedonia during the Antiquity (in Greek), Thessaloniki 1976 (Society for Macedonian Studies), p. 134-135. {{ISBN|960-7265-16-5}} & D. C. Samsaris, La vallée du Bas-Strymon á l' époque impériale (Contribution épigraphique á la topographie, l' onomastique, l' histoire et aux cultes de la province romaine de Macédoine), Δωδώνη 18(1989), fasc. 1, σ. 282-283, n. 122-124 : [http://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/150762?&bookid=126&location=4 The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 122, # PH150762)] [http://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/150763?bookid=126&location=4 The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 122(1), # PH150763)] [http://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/150764?bookid=126&location=4 The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 123, # PH150764)][http://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/150765?bookid=126&location=4 The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 124, # PH150765)] and it was called Ichna ({{langx|el|Ίχνα}}). It was a Paionian city, that was sometime in the 5th or early 4th century BC incorporated into the Macedonian Kingdom. Another city by the same name Ichna is mentioned by Thucydides being next to Pella, by the estuary of the Loudias and Axios rivers. The name Ichna is a Paionian cognate of the Greek word "ichnos" ({{langx|el|ίχνος}}) which means "stepping ground" a name appropriate for a city built on the sand between the marsh and the lake (or the sea).Miltiades E. Bolaris: "Macedonian names and makeDONSKI pseudo-linguistics: The case of the name Pella" [http://macedonianissues.blogspot.com/2010/06/macedonian-names-and-makedonski-pseudo_16.html] The original Ichna remained a city throughout the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine eras,[http://www.serres.gr/index.php/istoria/istoria-serron-samsaris] D. C. Samsaris, A History of Serres (in the Ancient and Roman Times) (in Greek), Thessaloniki 1999, p. 77-79 only to be destroyed and was rebuilt far from the lake in its original position on the hills. In the Ottoman tax registry of 1519 (Hijri 925), it was recorded as {{transliteration|ota|Zihne}}, and the town had 46 Muslim and 419 Christian households, along with 27 Muslim and 73 Christian bachelors and 141 Christian widows; it was a zeamet.{{Cite journal |last=Gökbilgin |first=M. Tayyib |date=1956 |title=Kanuni Sultan Süleyman Devri Başlarında Rumeli Eyaleti, Livaları, Şehir ve Kasabaları |url=https://belleten.gov.tr/tam-metin-pdf/1214/tur |journal=Belleten |volume=20 |issue=78 |page=265 |issn=0041-4255 |eissn=2791-6472 |via=Belleten}} In the 19th century it was a kaza centre in the Sanjak of Serres in the Salonica Eyalet.http://muhacirin.blogcu.com/su-albumden-selanik-hatiralari-ekleyen-selanik-selanik-vilayet/7614320 Administrative Division of Selanik Province (Turkish)

The municipality Nea Zichni was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 2 former municipalities, that became municipal units:{{Cite web|url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL8-SrPzKAEPjjtIl9LGdkF53UIxsx942CdyqxSQYNuqAGCF0IfB9HI6hq6ZkZV96FIukI0UzcPsWCK0LpLhpa7rhiWB4R5ntTnoWw7U8E1Amg.|title=ΦΕΚ A 87/2010, Kallikratis reform law text|language=el|publisher=Government Gazette}}

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The municipality has an area of 404.307 km², the municipal unit 274.429 km².{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf|publisher=National Statistical Service of Greece|title=Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)|language=el}} The municipal unit Nea Zichni consists of the communities Agios Christoforos, Agriani, Anastasia, Dimitra, Draviskos, Gazoros, Mavrolofos, Mesorrachi, Myrkinos, Myrrini, Nea Petra, Nea Zichni, Sfelinos and Tholos.

Image:Nea Zichni.jpg|General view of Nea Zichni with Pangaion Mountain behind.

Image:Nea Zichni countryside.JPG|Nea Zichni countryside in Toumba location.

File:2010 Dimos Neas Zichnis.svg|Nea Zichni municipality

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