Rodolivos
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| periphunit = Serres
|municipality = Amfipoli
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|pop_community = 1557
|population_as_of = 2021
|area_municunit = 106.0
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Rodolivos ({{langx|el|Ροδoλίβος}}) is a town and a former municipality in the Serres regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Amfipoli, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.{{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}} The municipal unit has an area of 106.034 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}} It is about 30 km from Drama. Its population was 2,002 in 2021. The village is at the foot of Mount Pangaio.
Just next to Rodolivos, namely on the hill of "St. Athanasius" and also in the neighboring place "Kouria", are attested traces of two ancient settlements of Edonis (Greek: Ηδωνίδα), which were located on the via Egnatia.[http://www.ems.gr/analytikos-katalogos-ekdoseon/makedoniki-vivliothiki/049-samsaris.html] D. C. Samsaris, Historical Geography of Eastern Macedonia during the Antiquity (in Greek), Thessaloniki 1976 (Society for Macedonian Studies), p. 186-187. {{ISBN|960-7265-16-5}}. In these sites were found some inscriptions of imperial times (2nd-3rd AD).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), Dodona 18 (1989), fasc. 1, p. 294-295, n. 153-156 = [http://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/150794?&bookid=126&location=4 The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 153, # PH150794)] [http://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/150795?bookid=126&location=4 The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 154, # PH150795)][http://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/150796?bookid=126&location=4 The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 155, # PH150796)] [http://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/150797?bookid=126&location=4 The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 156, # PH150797)]
Subdivisions
The municipal unit Rodolivos is subdivided into the following communities (population in 2021 in square brackets):
- Rodolivos [ 1,557 ]
- Domiros [ 111 ]
- Mikro Souli [ 334 ]
See also
References
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Category:Populated places in Serres (regional unit)
Category:Amphipolis (municipality)
Category:Archaeological sites in Macedonia (Greece)
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