Toumpa () is a village in Serres regional unit of Central Macedonia, Greece, located southeast of Serres. Since 2011 it is a municipal unit of the municipality of Emmanouil Pappas and has a population of 468 inhabitants (2021). The village bore the same name before 1928.
History On the hillside of Phakistra, located very close to Toumpa, a lot of archaeological finds have been unearthed over time and between them two Greek inscriptions of Roman imperial times (2nd century AD).D. C. Samsaris, La vallée du Bas-Strymon á l’ époque impériale (Contribution épigraphique á la topographie, l’ onomastique, l’ histoire et aux cultes de la province romaine de Macédoine), Dodona 18 (1989), fasc. 1, p. 279-281, n. 118-119 = The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 118, # PH150758)The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 119, # PH150759) All these testifies to the existence of an ancient settlement with a continuous life from prehistoric to Byzantine times. D. C. Samsaris, Historical Geography of Eastern Macedonia during the Antiquity (in Greek), Thessaloniki 1976 (Society for Macedonian Studies), p. 179.
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