Nea Kerdylia

Nea Kerdylia is a village in the . It is located on the national road Thessaloniki - Alexandroupolis and is 50 km away from , 70 km from .
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  • Type: Village with 538 residents
  • Description: village in Serres, Greece
  • Postal code: 62052

Places of Interest

Highlights include Struma River and Lion of Amphipolis.

River
The Struma or Strymonas is a river in and . Its ancient name was Strymon. Its drainage area is 17,330 km in and . It takes its source from the in , runs first westward, then southward, forming a number of gorges, enters near the village of in eastern .

Monument
The is a 4th-century BC tomb sculpture near , , . According to Oscar Broneer and archaeologist Dimitris Lazaridis, the first person excavating in the area in the 1960s, it was set up in honour of Laomedon of Mytilene, an important general of Alexander the Great, king of Macedon.

or Argilos was a city of ancient Macedonia in the district Bisaltia, between and Bromiscus. It was founded by a colony from . It appears from Herodotus to have been a little to the right of the route of the army of Xerxes I took in its invasion of Greece in the Greco-Persian Wars, and must therefore have been situated a little inland. is situated 3 km southwest of Nea Kerdylia.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Amphipolis and Kato Kerdylio.

was an important ancient Greek polis, and later a Roman city, whose large remains can still be seen. It gave its name to the modern municipality of , in the of .

Locality
is a locality, which is situated 4 km northwest of Nea Kerdylia.

Locality
is a locality, which is situated 5 km west of Nea Kerdylia.

Nea Kerdylia

Latitude
40.79457° or 40° 47′ 40″ north
Longitude
23.84183° or 23° 50′ 31″ east
Population
538
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
Open location code
8GG5QRVR+RP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 299011785
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
735011
Wiki­data ID
Q12879195
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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Nea Kerdylia” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: Неа Кердилия
  • Bulgarian: Ново Крушево
  • Cebuano: Néa Kerdýlia
  • French: Néa Kerdýlia
  • Greek: Néa Kerdhília
  • Greek: Néa Kerdýlia
  • Greek: Νέα Κερδύλια Σερρών
  • Greek: Νέα Κερδύλια
  • Greek: Νέα Κερδύλλια
  • Macedonian: Крушево
  • Macedonian: Неја Кердилија
  • Macedonian: Ново Крушево
  • Russian: Неа-Кердилия
  • Scots: Nea Kerdylia
  • Serbian: Нова Кердилија
  • Swedish: Néa Kerdýlia

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