Lefkotopos

Lefkotopos (Greek Λευκότοπος ( m. sg. ) ) Is a village with 311 inhabitants in the Greek region of Central Macedonia. Lefkotopos is a village in the municipality of Achinos the community Visaltia.

The village is about 35 km north of the Sea ( Strymonischer golf) or north of Amphipolis and running parallel to the coast highway 2 Its distance from Serres is 40 km, 55 km from Kavala and Thessaloniki 90 km away.

The inhabitants of Lefkotopos are mostly Pontier or descendants of Pontian displaced persons, who were deported as a result of the agreed in the Treaty of Lausanne in 1922 population exchange, from Turkey to Greece. Your old home, Pontos ( UK ), was an area that had been around since the early Greek antiquity.

A portion of the inhabitants are farmers, another part moved to foreign countries ( Western Europe ) and in the neighboring Thessaloniki to. In Lefkotopos are tobacco, vegetables, peanuts, herbs, olive trees, fig trees and almond and walnut trees, and other fruit tree species grown. In the village there are three modern olive processing plants in operation, which cover a large part of the processing requirements of the olive growers of the area.

Every year, on August 28, the eve of the Holy Day of Agios Ioannis Prodromos, the beheading of John the Baptist, which is dedicated to the village church newly built, the association organizes living in Thessaloniki residents, a cultural event with Pontic dances and Pontic Lyramusik.