Banitsa (ruins)

Banitsa (Greek: Καρυαί - Karié, Bulgarian/Macedonian:[1] Баница, Banitsa or Banica, Ottoman Turkish:[2] بانيچه Turkish Baniça) is a deserted former village in Serres regional unit, northern Greece. Its ruins are situated some 15 km north-east of the town of Serres, near the present-day village of Oreini, on the southern slopes of the Vrontous mountains. During the Ottoman period it had a Bulgarian population.[3][4][5][6] The village was destroyed by the Greek Army during the Second Balkan War, and the population migrated to Bulgaria .[7] Its inhabitants settled in Mehomiya, Bachevo, Nevrokop, Sveti Vrach and Novo Delchevo.

Steeple of bell tower at Banitsa

Banitsa was the site of the death of the Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary Gotse Delchev, who was killed in a skirmish with Ottoman police forces on 4 May 1903.[8]

References
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  2. Rumeli-i Şahane Haritası, Harvard Map Collection, Ottoman Empire Series, Index Map, 1:210,000 Scale, c. 1901/1902, http://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:4952983$17i Retrieved 11.05.2016
  3. Йордан Иванов. „Местните имена между Долна Струма и Долна Места". София, БАН, 1982, стр.20.
  4. „Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г." Македонски научен институт, София, 1995, стр.116-117.
  5. Васил Кънчов. „Македония. Етнография и статистика". София, 1900, стр.176.
  6. D.M.Brancoff. "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne". Paris, 1905, р.198-199.
  7. "Weekend - Към Бяло море по стъпките на Гоце - Стандарт". Archived from the original on 4 June 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2010.
  8. Vanče Stojčev (2004). Military History of Macedonia. Skopje: Military Academy "General Mihailo Apostolski". ISBN 9989-134-05-7.

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