Myrkinos () is a village in Serres regional unit of Central Macedonia, located at the confluence of the rivers Strymonas and Angitis. Since the 2011 administrative reform it has been a municipal unit of the municipality of Nea Zichni. It has a population of 370 inhabitants and until 1928 was named “Doxombos”.
History Myrkinos was a remarkable Thracian city, the capital of Edoni (from the 8th to the 5th century BC), whose place is identical to the present village of the same name, where archaeological findings testify to the existence of an ancient city. Dim. C. Samsaris, Historical Geography of Eastern Macedonia during the Antiquity (in Greek), Thessaloniki 1976 (Society for Macedonian Studies), p. 140. As evidenced by Appianos and Diodorus, as well as by finding three inscriptions,Dim. 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. 293-294, n. 150-152 = The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 150, # PH150791) The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 151, # PH150792)The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 152, # PH150793) Myrkinos survived to the Roman (imperial) times. Dim. C. Samsaris, Historical Geography of Eastern Macedonia during the Antiquity (in Greek), Thessaloniki 1976 (Society for Macedonian Studies), p. 141. In Byzantine times it was referred to by its name “Doxobus”.
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