Anchialos
Origin placename:
The name derived from Anchialos intention anchi, which means close, near and word-als alos means sea. Anchialos is the coastal town.
Brief Chronology:
The built in Anchialos 1906 from, chased from Bulgarian chauvinists, residents of Eastern Rumelia Aghialou. These refugees, having escaped the arson that destroyed the city-fled at the beginning- in the Salinas area and from there, boat, survived arriving in Smyrna, Istanbul and Egypt, while others went to the Tower, Midday in Sozopoli and from where they departed, with steamers, for Greece.
In total 707 Greek houses 2 Greek churches, of the Bulgarians.
Most of the refugees settled in New Anchialos Magnesia.
The first Anchialos, was a port on the Black Sea. It 1878 came under the Bulgarian hegemony and 1885 annexed to Bulgaria. At the beginning of the fourth decade of the 19th century, Anchialos inhabited by 5000-6000 mainly Greeks and Bulgarians few. The British diplomatic representative St . Clear έγραφε, it 1863, in his letter from Anchialos, that the Bulgarian coast of the Black Sea were completely assimilated by the Greeks and were exellinisthei.
The refugees settled in New Anchialos in the ancient city of Pyrasou, which were 4 km farther ancient Thebes Fthiotides, near the ruins of the village which was built Mikrothives.
The settlement of the region starting from the Neolithic Period and continues to the Bronze Age, the Geometric and the Historical to the Byzantine Years.
The city was destroyed in 217p.Ch. the Macedonian king Philip V, together with Fthiotides Thebes. Still, revived and developed in the Byzantine era. From excavations in, from N. Giannopoulos, Christian basilicas discovered, mosaic icons and public buildings.
The anchialites settled into their new home and were involved in fishing and farming- particularly viticulture.
Refugees settled in the nearby village Aydin. They came from another source Hellenism, Aydin from Asia Minor, the story has a tragic emphasis: Slaughter-June 1919- two thousand people from the Turks. Among these was 32 Scouts.
With memories of the fire, Slaughter and the final destruction of '22, rooted and living here, another near the sea wistfully reminiscent of the old country who, however, achieved starting to translate into development and progress
It 1912, The Great Dying-malaria- reaps many of the residents surrounding area Aghialou. Nevertheless, participate in war and 12 them, fall heroically. They also participate in the Albanian war and the subsequent National Resistance and climb many mountains.
Under are sabotage, such as the bombing of bridges and Soros-retaliation- burned the city and killed 3 Civilians.
On 20 July 1944 New Anchialos theater is a big fight and then, even before the complete reconstruction of the town of arson, there was another disaster as the earthquake 1954, most homes deemed uninhabitable or demolished.
It 1955, began expanding the electric grid across the region. At the same time began to construct the military airport (111 AM) that contributed to the economic and social development of the region.
Το καλοκαίρι του 1958, starts from the Association of Winemakers, the famous Wine Festival which is, more, institution.
Mikrothives
Origin placename:
The village is built on the hillside "Castle" and was named by Fthiotides Thebes, the ruins of which are located in. The old, Turkish name Akitsi or Akita, due to a Turk who had the manor there.
Brief history:
The N. Georgiadis writes: "... Not twenty steps to the Pyrason, ekeito the famous city of Thebes century Fthiotikai (Strabo 9 435 ), which remains important today and found only on the village hill Akita, the distal one hour from Karabash ... ".
O Zosimas Esphigmenitis adds other interesting facts: "In the Dimon Almyrou control the following villages .... Aydin Akitsi ..., having residents 150 and the Temple Mount Charalambos, refurbished the 1885, three priests not married ... ".
As informs us Tsopotos, the Akitsi, the time when the area became the property of Ali Pasha, was the only settlement, not only in the area in the manor and the "New", another adjacent meadow, where, together with the manor of Karabash, were the large estate Topali.
Other Turkish names that meet the village is Akkitsle, Akketseli, Akketzi.
