Amyntaio

The village mosque was destroyed and located at the site of the present Municipal Centre building.{{cite thesis|last=Stavridopoulos|first=Ioannis|date=2015|title=Μνημεία του άλλου: η διαχείριση της οθωμανικής πολιτιστική κληρονομιάς της Μακεδονίας από το 1912 έως σήμερα|trans-title=Monuments of the other: The management of the Ottoman cultural heritage of Macedonia from 1912 until present|type=Ph.D.|language=el|publisher=University of Ioannina|url=https://www.didaktorika.gr/eadd/handle/10442/43568|access-date=28 March 2022|page=282}} The Church of St. Konstantinos and Helen was declared a hazard to public safety and demolished with tanks in the late twentieth century.{{cite journal|last1=Andreou|first1=Andreas|last2=Kasvikis|first2=Kostas|title=The Difficult Past of a Town: The Resonant Silences and Suppressed Memories of Florina's Cultural Heritage|url=https://museumedulab.ece.uth.gr/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/5.-Andreas-Andreou-Kostas-Kasvikis_0.pdf|journal=MuseumEdu|volume=6|year=2018|page=155|doi=}}

On March 4, 2007, an unknown civilization around four lakes that lasted from 6000 BC to 60 BC has been uncovered in two important excavations of a Neolithic and an Iron Age settlement in the Amyntaio district of Florina, northern Greece.{{Cite web |date=2018-10-22 |title=Neolithic: Four Lakes Region |url=https://sklithro-zelenic.com/neolithic/ |access-date=2024-10-10 |website=Sklithro-Zelenich-Sebalći |language=en}}

A 7,300-year-old home with a timber floor, remnants of food supplies and blackberry seeds are among the findings in a Neolithic settlement near the lakes of Vegoritida, Petres, Heimatitida and Zazari. Garments, women's fashions and burial customs in northern Eordaia 3,000 years ago are coming to light among the hundreds of funeral offerings in a forgotten necropolis dating from the Iron Age in western Macedonia.{{Cite journal |last=Mavrodakou |first=Pinelopi |date=2020-01-01 |title="Early Iron Age grave finds from the tumuli cemetery of Agios Panteleimon (Pateli) at Amyntaio in western Macedonia" |url=https://www.academia.edu/64123776 |journal=Master's Thesis (IHU)}}

More than 100 years after the excavation at Agios Panteleimonas in Amyntaio in the Florina prefecture – known in the bibliography as the Pateli Necropolis – by the Russian Archaeological Institute of Istanbul, a systematic investigation of 12 tombs by the 17th Antiquities Ephorate has found a total of 358 tombs dating from between 950 BC and 550 BC. Although the first discovery in 1898 of 376 graves produced many findings, now in the Istanbul Museum, the necropolis between the lakes of Heimatitida and Petres has revealed hundreds more graves.{{Cite web |date=2007-03-02 |title=Forgotten necropolis {{!}} eKathimerini.com |url=https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/47398/forgotten-necropolis/ |access-date=2024-10-10 |website=www.ekathimerini.com |language=English}}

Not far from Amyntaio is the archaeological site of Petres. A site dating back to the Bronze age, based on poterry found there. During the 4th century Philip II built there the city of Petres. The site was destroyed during the 1st century.{{Cite book |last=Farrar |first=Linda |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.30861/9780860548379 |title=Gardens of Italy and the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire: From the 4th century BC to the 4th century AD |date=1996 |publisher=BAR Publishing |isbn=978-0-86054-837-9 |location=Oxford |series=BAR International Series |volume=650 |doi=10.30861/9780860548379}}

In the summer of 2017 the remnants of a remarkable Roman villa were discovered.Mirtsioti G., [https://www.greece-is.com/stunning-ancient-roman-villa-discovered-amyntaio/ The Stunning Ancient Roman Villa Discovered in Amyntaio], Greece is, March 14th, 2018

Academic Pierre Sintes was in the Florina area doing research in the early 2010s.{{harvnb|Sintès|2019|pp=3, 156}}. Sintes wrote Amyntaio was populated by Dopioi, (meaning locals or natives) a Greek term used for Slavophones of the region.{{cite book|last=Sintès|first=Pierre|title=Chasing the Past: Geopolitics of Memory on the Margins of Modern Greece|year=2019|publisher=Liverpool University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qnVvEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA157|isbn=9781786948496|pages=157}} "The panorama needs a little presenting: Xino Nero, Amyndeo and Aetos harbour the ντόπιοι ('natives' or 'locals' i.e. Slavic - speakers in this region)"

Amyntaio station is a railway junction, where the line to Kozani branches off from the Platy-Florina main line.

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The municipality Amyntaio was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 6 former municipalities, that became municipal units:{{Cite web|url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL81-32jgAMSfbnMRVjyfnPUeJInJ48_97uHrMts-zFzeyCiBSQOpYnT00MHhcXFRTsb2fGphpq4MKX2ZkaHobySNnvZCNHXvYVvlf80XevW0Q.|title=ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities|language=el|publisher=Government Gazette}}

• Aetos
• Amyntaio
• Filotas
• Lechovo
• Nymfaio
• Variko

The municipality has an area of 589.369 km², the municipal unit 249.852 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 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |archivedate=2015-09-21 }}

The municipal unit of Amyntaio is divided into the following communities:

• Agios Panteleimonas
• Amyntaio (incl. Analipsi and Sotiras)
• Kella
• Kleidi
• Petres
• Rodonas
• Fanos
• Xino Nero

• Amyntaio Power Station

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• [http://www.amyntaio.gr/ Official website of Amyntaio Municipality] (in Greek).

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Category:Populated places in Florina (regional unit)

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