AMYNTAIO SIGHTS
Amyndeo
Amyntaio (Αμύνταιο) is a town and municipality in
the Florina regional unit of Macedonia. It Is a very
small town (3636 citizens (2001), with around 20
villages nearby.
The municipal unit of Amyntaio is divided into the
following communities: Agios Panteleimonas,
Amyntaio, Kella, Kleidi, Petres, Rodonas, Fanos
and Xino Nero.
Archaeological excavations
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.
Thessaloniki has been a commercial centre during the
ages of the Byzantine Empire, and thus is closely connected to Christian Orthodox tradition. There are many byzantine monuments in Thessaloniki, such as the
White Tower, which was used as a fortress and generally all the walls and towers from the era of Constantine the Great onwards. There are numerous byzantine churches still in existence, all of which are among
the monuments of the World Heritage Catalogue of
UNESCO. Some notable churches from the byzantine
ages are that of Hagia Sofia (i.e. The Church of the
Wisdom of God) and the basilica of Saint Demetrius.
All these byzantine church