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Coordinates: 40°54′N 23°29′E

Nigrita (Νιγρίτα)
Coordinates	40°54′ N 23°29′ E
Country	Greece
Periphery	Central Macedonia
Prefecture	Serres
Population	9,783 source (2001)
Elevation	80 m
Postal code	622 00
Area code	23220
Licence plate code	ΕΡ
Website	nigrita.gr

Nigrita (Greek: Νιγρίτα), is a town and a municipality situated between the Strymonian plain of the Strymon river and the Vertiskos mountains featuring the mountaintop Trani Rachi to the southwest. Nigrita is the capital of the Visaltia province and is located in the southwestern part of the Serres prefecture. Nigrita is also the second largest community in the prefecture. The Thessaloniki prefecture is found to the southwest and has no road linking to it westwards except for nearby GR-12 outside the municipality. All of the communities and much of the population live on the plains. Nigrita is accessed with a road linking the western part of the prefecture with Via Egnatia and also goes north to Serres. Nigrita is located S of Serres, W of Amphipolis and Kavala, N of the Via Egnatia, NE of Thessaloniki and E of Lagkada.

The main football(soccer) team in Nigrita is the Nigrita FC.

Contents 1 History 2 Communities 3 Other 4 Historical population 5 External links 6 See also

Nigrita was the administrative economic centre in the wide area during the Byzantine and the Ottoman rule. Nigrita was first mentioned in a tax register in the 15th century and second in the Serrean Papasynadinou Chronicle.

In the later years of the Ottoman Empire, Nigrita along with the surrounding villages, was a municipality of the old kaza Serres, which in the final years of the Ottoman period were of Greek origin. The city and its surroundings did not have a Bulgarian population because the city and the area (also known as Little Greece or the Greek quarter (Köcök Yunan) was mainly a Greek-speaking region and it was hostile to other ethnicities.

The economy was developed in the 18th and the early 19th centuries, with also an increase to the population. The main agricultural products were cereals, wine, cigars, cotton, sesame and aniseed. The main industries were silk and animal trade which made the economy of the area flourish during that period.

The economic lifestyle in Nigrita and the area during the last years of the Ottoman rule was sufficient, and could not forsee Macedonian problem. A few years later, the activity around the Macedonian affairs was climaxed.

One of the most important Nigritian persons was Athanasios Argyros, a legalist with plenty of works, president of the Athenian Pan-Macedonian Society and later, a politician of the Serres prefecture and Ministry of Farming and Education.

Nigrita's people knew how fierce the Ottomans were over the disarmanent among the Ottoman youth, in 1910. Nigrita became part of Greece in 1912 following the Balkan Wars. Nigrita at the time was in turmoil with captain Giagklis who fought in the Balkan Wars for the liberation of Nigrita from the Turks (Ottomans). Refugees of the Greco-Turkish War arrived in the 1920s.

Nigrita and its surroundings were also in the national resistance front against the German occupation during World War II. Nigrita was constituted in the area around Strymon.

• Anthi
• Flampouro
• Nigrita
• Terpni
• Therma

Nigrita has schools, lyceums, a few gymnasia, banks, churches, a post office and a few squares (plateies).

Year	Population	Change	Municipal population
1981	6,531	-	-
1991	6,186	-345/-5.28%	10,668

• Mapquest - Nigrita, street map not available
• Coordinates: 40°54′17″N, 23°29′29″E

• List of communities of Serres

Municipalities and communities of the Serres Prefecture
Achinos • Alistrati • Amfipoli • Emmanouil Pappas • Irakleia • Kato Mitrousi • Kerkini • Kormista • Lefkonas • Nea Zichni • Nigrita • Petritsi • Proti • Rodolivos • Serres • Sidirokastro • Skotousa • Skoutari • Strymonas • Strymoniko • Tragilos • Visaltia
Achladochori • Agkistro • Ano Vrontou • Oreini • Promachonas