Asprovalta

Near the modern town, the ruins of a Roman station of the Via Egnatia are preserved, which was called Pennana.[http://olympias.lib.uoi.gr/jspui/bitstream/123456789/6139/1/2.%20Pennana-%20%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%82%20%CF%81%CF%89%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%8A%CE%BA%CF%8C%CF%82%20%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%B8%CE%BC%CF%8C%CF%82.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002165854/http://olympias.lib.uoi.gr/jspui/bitstream/123456789/6139/1/2.%20Pennana-%20%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%82%20%CF%81%CF%89%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%8A%CE%BA%CF%8C%CF%82%20%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%B8%CE%BC%CF%8C%CF%82.pdf|date=2017-10-02}} D. C. Samsaris, Pennana, A Roman station (mutatio) of the Via Egnatia (in Greek), Dodona 15 (1986), 1, p. 69-84. According to a manuscript of Simonopetra monastery in Mount Athos, Asprovalta was built in the 16th century. Its first name was Aspra Valta. After the Asia Minor Disaster, 54 families from Erenköy of Troas (near the ancient city of Ophryneion) were forcibly settled in Asprovalta.{{cite web|title=Ιστορία|url=http://dim-asprov.thess.sch.gr/istoria.htm|publisher=Δημοτικό Σχολείο Ασπροβάλτας|accessdate=15 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724075044/http://dim-asprov.thess.sch.gr/istoria.htm|archive-date=24 July 2014|url-status=dead}} Erenköy was located in an important geographical position from a military point of view. During WW1, a Turkish artillery unit was stationed near the village, which was bombarded by the Allied ships.{{Cite book|last=Morgenthau|first=Henry|title=Τα μυστικά του Βοσπόρου/Secrets of the Bosphorus|publisher=|year=1989|isbn=|location=Athens|pages=173–174}} The truce of Moudros (30 October 1918) marked the end of the war.

The settlement of Asia Minor refugees in Greece was one of the most important events of modern Greek history. Residents of Erenköy (most of them) were resettled in rural and urban settlements all over Greece: Athens, Lamia, Kymi, Kalamata, Tripoli, Argos, Halkida, Crete.These places that are mentioned in a document that exists in the part of the Code of the Erenkiotes that is kept in the Union of Erenkiotes <<Ο Άγιος Γεώργιος>> at Nicaea. The other part of the code is located in the community of Asprovalta

However, most of the Erenkiotes settled in Asprovalta in the prefecture of Thessaloniki, Kato Lakkovikia (Ophrynion) and at Nicaea after the second persecution.

In September 1923, 54 refugee families from Erenköy who had fled from the island of Imvros arrived in Stavros aboard the ship Elpidoforos.

Asprovalta enjoys a sunny and warm Mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa). Winter highs are around {{convert|12|°C|0|abbr=on}} while summer highs are around {{convert|32|°C|0|abbr=on}}.

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|location= Asprovalta (2012–2024)

|metric first=yes

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|Jan high C=11.1

|Feb high C=13.1

|Mar high C=15.2

|Apr high C=19.7

|May high C=24.7

|Jun high C=29.4

|Jul high C=32.1

|Aug high C=32.5

|Sep high C=27.7

|Oct high C=21.7

|Nov high C=17.0

|Dec high C=12.3

|Jan mean C= 7.0

|Feb mean C= 9.0

|Mar mean C=10.8

|Apr mean C=14.6

|May mean C=19.5

|Jun mean C=24.0

|Jul mean C=26.8

|Aug mean C=27.1

|Sep mean C=22.5

|Oct mean C=17.2

|Nov mean C=13.2

|Dec mean C=8.4

|Jan low C= 2.9

|Feb low C= 4.9

|Mar low C= 6.4

|Apr low C= 9.5

|May low C=14.3

|Jun low C=18.6

|Jul low C=21.4

|Aug low C=21.7

|Sep low C=17.7

|Oct low C=12.7

|Nov low C=9.3

|Dec low C= 4.4

|rain colour = green

|Jan rain mm=75.1

|Feb rain mm=52.1

|Mar rain mm=76.2

|Apr rain mm=41.1

|May rain mm=39.4

|Jun rain mm=60.9

|Jul rain mm= 28.8

|Aug rain mm= 17.3

|Sep rain mm=41.2

|Oct rain mm=51.8

|Nov rain mm=81.0

|Dec rain mm=72.7

| Jan record high C = 21.7

| Feb record high C = 20.3

| Mar record high C = 24.3

| Apr record high C = 29.7

| May record high C = 32.9

| Jun record high C = 36.3

| Jul record high C = 40.0

| Aug record high C = 41.8

| Sep record high C = 38.4

| Oct record high C = 30.9

| Nov record high C = 26.4

| Dec record high C = 20.2

| Jan record low C = -8.0

| Feb record low C = -4.1

| Mar record low C = -3.2

| Apr record low C = 1.2

| May record low C = 9.2

| Jun record low C = 10.9

| Jul record low C = 15.4

| Aug record low C = 17.2

| Sep record low C = 8.8

| Oct record low C = 5.4

| Nov record low C = 0.3

| Dec record low C = -4.3

|source = National Observatory of Athens (Dec 2012 - Jul 2024), {{cite web | url=https://www.meteo.gr/Monthly_Bulletins.cfm | title=N.O.A Monthly Bulletins }}
Asprovalta N.O.A station {{cite web | url=https://penteli.meteo.gr/stations/asprovalta/ | title=Latest Conditions in Asprovalta |website=penteli.meteo.gr |access-date=2024-10-12}}

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In 1915, during the second year of war, people were ordered to leave. We went to Karantina where we were waiting for the boats to take us· Greek ships came named <> and <<Βαρβάρα/Varvára>>. People who board on the first one went straight to Almyros. The other one that we got ontook us to Peiraeus and they went to Kalamata and we stayed there around 5 years.Testimony from Konstantinos Epitropou

The persecution came unexpectedly. Nobody expected it. We just had harvested the vines and stored the wine. One day we heard the town crier that we have to leave from the town by morning. My father took us to Karantina and returned to Erenköy. The next day my mother was concerned, because he was late and she returned to find him drinking with his friends wine. Nobody thought that we would leave for ever. First we went to Krithia they gave us boards and we built shacks. After a while we charted boats and left for Imvros, but when we realised that the island had become Turkish we left from there also. We went to Asprovalta, and in the beginning we lived in shacks and tents.Testimony from Eleni Dialogi-Petraki

Agios Georgios church (St George) was built in 1927-28 by the installed refugees from Erenköy. Divine Liturgy before the church was built was held at a shack and the religious artefacts were kept in 2-3 houses. Unfortunately, the church was demolished at the altar of the leaping tourist development in 1978. And a newer and bigger one was built from cement. Inside the (new) Church are kept historical icons carried by the Asia Minor as heirlooms: two icons of St. George and the Virgin Mary of the 16th - 17th century, the icon of St. Nicholas, two gold-embroidered icons and the school library.

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Agios Georgios church (St George)

The church was built in the middle of the 16th century and follows the monastic architecture of Macedonia during the Ottoman rule, which does not differ in design and function from that of the Byzantine era. The architectural type that dominates is the so-called Athonite, cruciform inscribed, which has as its main feature the side niches part intended for the dances of the psalters, and the large narthex, the litti. The central area is covered with a large cross-section of excellent construction.

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