Melenikitsi
Melenikitsi (Greek: Μελενικίτσι) is a village in the Serres regional unit of Central Macedonia, Greece. It is about 14 km northwest of the city of Serres. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality of Irakleia as a municipal unit. The village has about 759 residents. Its old name was Melegitsi.
About 4 km northeast of Melenikitsi, at a place called Leginitsko, archaeologists found the necropolis of a Roman settlement, with three epitaphs from the 1st century AD. The inscriptions suggest a Thracian population, indicating the settlement existed before the Roman conquest.
In ancient times the settlement lay near the borders of Odomantice and Sintice and along the Roman road from Philippi to Heracleia Sintice, which passed through Sirra (modern Serres).
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