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{{Infobox Greek Dimos
|name = Amyntaio
|name_local = Αμύνταιο
|type = municipality
|image_map = 2011 Dimos Amyndeou.png
|periph = [[West Macedonia]]
|periphunit         =  [[Florina (regional unit)|Florina]]
|pop_municipality   = 14169
|area_municipality  = 589.4
|pop_municunit   = 6961
|area_municunit   = 249.9
|pop_community   = 4348
|population_as_of = 2021
|elevation = 589
|coordinates = {{coord|40|41|N|21|41|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|postal_code = 
|area_code = 
|licence = ΡΑ
| Mayor = 
|website = 
|image_skyline      = Surovichevo Sts Constantine and Helen Church.jpg
|caption_skyline    = Church in central Amyntaio.
}}
'''Amyntaio''' ({{langx|el|Αμύνταιο}}, before 1928: Σόροβιτς – ''Sorovits'';<ref name="pandektisSoAm">{{Cite web|author=Institute for Neohellenic Research|title=Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Sorovits – Amyntaio|url=http://pandektis.ekt.gr/pandektis/handle/10442/169932|website=Pandektis|access-date=18 February 2022}}</ref> [[Macedonian language|Macedonian]]: Суровичево, Сорович), is a town and [[Municipalities and communities of Greece|municipality]] in the [[Florina (regional unit)|Florina]] regional unit of [[Macedonia (Greece)|Macedonia]], [[Greece]]. The population of Amyntaio proper is 4,348, while that of the entire municipality is 14,169 (2021).<ref name=census21/> The town is named after the ancient king of [[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|Macedon]], and father of [[Philip II of Macedon|Philip II]] and grandfather of [[Alexander the Great]], [[Amyntas III of Macedon|Amyntas III]].

==History==
The village mosque was destroyed and located at the site of the present Municipal Centre building.<ref name="Stavridopoulos282">{{cite thesis|last=Stavridopoulos|first=Ioannis|date=2015|title=Μνημεία του άλλου: η διαχείριση της οθωμανικής πολιτιστική κληρονομιάς της Μακεδονίας από το 1912 έως σήμερα|trans-title=Monuments of the other: The management of the Ottoman cultural heritage of Macedonia from 1912 until present|type=Ph.D.|language=el|publisher=University of Ioannina|url=https://www.didaktorika.gr/eadd/handle/10442/43568|access-date=28 March 2022|page=282}}</ref> The Church of St. Konstantinos and Helen was declared a hazard to public safety and demolished with tanks in the late twentieth century.<ref name="AnKa155">{{cite journal|last1=Andreou|first1=Andreas|last2=Kasvikis|first2=Kostas|title=The Difficult Past of a Town: The Resonant Silences and Suppressed Memories of Florina's Cultural Heritage|url=https://museumedulab.ece.uth.gr/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/5.-Andreas-Andreou-Kostas-Kasvikis_0.pdf|journal=MuseumEdu|volume=6|year=2018|page=155|doi=}}</ref>

===Archaeological excavations===
On March 4, 2007, an unknown civilization around four lakes that lasted from 6000 BC to 60 BC has been uncovered in two important excavations of a [[Neolithic]] and an Iron Age settlement in the Amyntaio district of Florina, northern Greece.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2018-10-22 |title=Neolithic: Four Lakes Region |url=https://sklithro-zelenic.com/neolithic/ |access-date=2024-10-10 |website=Sklithro-Zelenich-Sebalći |language=en}}</ref>

A 7,300-year-old home with a timber floor, remnants of food supplies and [[blackberry]] seeds are among the findings in a Neolithic settlement near the lakes of [[Lake Vegoritida|Vegoritida]], Petres, [[Hematitida|Heimatitida]] and Zazari. Garments, women's fashions and burial customs in northern [[Eordaia]] 3,000 years ago are coming to light among the hundreds of funeral offerings in a forgotten necropolis dating from the [[Iron Age]] in western [[Macedonia (Greece)|Macedonia]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Mavrodakou |first=Pinelopi |date=2020-01-01 |title="Early Iron Age grave finds from the tumuli cemetery of Agios Panteleimon (Pateli) at Amyntaio in western Macedonia" |url=https://www.academia.edu/64123776 |journal=Master's Thesis (IHU)}}</ref><ref name=":2" />

More than 100 years after the excavation at Agios Panteleimonas in Amyntaio in the Florina prefecture – known in the bibliography as the [[Pateli Necropolis]] – by the [[Russian Archaeological Institute of Constantinople|Russian Archaeological Institute of Istanbul]], a systematic investigation of 12 tombs by the [[Ephor (archaeology)|17th Antiquities Ephorate]] has found a total of 358 tombs dating from between 950 BC and 550 BC. Although the first discovery in 1898 of 376 graves produced many findings, now in the [[Istanbul Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam|Istanbul Museum]], the necropolis between the lakes of Heimatitida and Petres has revealed hundreds more graves.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2007-03-02 |title=Forgotten necropolis {{!}} eKathimerini.com |url=https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/47398/forgotten-necropolis/ |access-date=2024-10-10 |website=www.ekathimerini.com |language=English}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />

Not far from Amyntaio is the archaeological site of Petres. A site dating back to the Bronze age, based on poterry found there. During the 4th century [[Philip II of Macedon|Philip II]] built there the city of Petres. The site was destroyed during the 1st century.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Farrar |first=Linda |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.30861/9780860548379 |title=Gardens of Italy and the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire: From the 4th century BC to the 4th century AD |date=1996 |publisher=BAR Publishing |isbn=978-0-86054-837-9 |location=Oxford |series=BAR International Series |volume=650 |doi=10.30861/9780860548379}}</ref> 

In the summer of 2017 the remnants of a remarkable [[Roman Empire|Roman]] villa were discovered.<ref>Mirtsioti G., [https://www.greece-is.com/stunning-ancient-roman-villa-discovered-amyntaio/  ''The Stunning Ancient Roman Villa Discovered in Amyntaio''], Greece is,  March 14th, 2018</ref>

==Demographics==

Academic Pierre Sintes was in the Florina area doing research in the early 2010s.<ref name="Sintes3156">{{harvnb|Sintès|2019|pp=3, 156}}.</ref> Sintes wrote Amyntaio was populated by ''Dopioi'', (meaning locals or natives) a Greek term used for [[Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia|Slavophones]] of the region.<ref name="Sintes157">{{cite book|last=Sintès|first=Pierre|title=Chasing the Past: Geopolitics of Memory on the Margins of Modern Greece|year=2019|publisher=Liverpool University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qnVvEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA157|isbn=9781786948496|pages=157}} "The panorama needs a little presenting: Xino Nero, Amyndeo and Aetos harbour the ντόπιοι ('natives' or 'locals' i.e. Slavic - speakers in this region)"</ref>

==Transport==
[[Amyntaio railway station|Amyntaio]] station is a railway junction, where the [[Railway Line Kozani - Amyntaio|line to Kozani]] branches off from the [[Thessaloniki–Bitola railway|Platy-Florina main line]].

==Municipality==
[[File:Amyndeo, Florina prefecture, Greece - Lignite power station and lignite mines - 01 cropped.jpg|thumb|[[Amyntaio Power Plant]]]]

The municipality Amyntaio was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 6 former municipalities, that became municipal units:<ref name=Kallikratis>{{Cite web|url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL81-32jgAMSfbnMRVjyfnPUeJInJ48_97uHrMts-zFzeyCiBSQOpYnT00MHhcXFRTsb2fGphpq4MKX2ZkaHobySNnvZCNHXvYVvlf80XevW0Q.|title=ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities|language=el|publisher=[[Government Gazette (Greece)|Government Gazette]]}}</ref>
*[[Aetos, Florina|Aetos]]
*Amyntaio
*[[Filotas]]
*[[Lechovo]]
*[[Nymfaio]]
*[[Variko]]

The municipality has an area of 589.369&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>, the municipal unit 249.852&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>.<ref name=stat01>{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |publisher=National Statistical Service of Greece |title=Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation) |language=el |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |archivedate=2015-09-21 }}</ref>

===Subdivisions===
The municipal unit of Amyntaio is divided into the following communities:<ref name=Kallikratis/>
*[[Agios Panteleimonas, Florina|Agios Panteleimonas]]
*Amyntaio (incl. Analipsi and [[Sotiras, Florina|Sotiras]])
*[[Kella, Florina|Kella]]
*[[Kleidi, Florina|Kleidi]]
*[[Petres, Florina|Petres]]
*[[Rodonas]]
*[[Fanos, Florina|Fanos]]
*[[Xino Nero]]

==Economy==
* [[Amyntaio Power Station]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.amyntaio.gr/ Official website of Amyntaio Municipality] (in Greek).

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