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{{For|the ancient region|Eordaea}}
{{Infobox Greek Dimos
| name              = Eordaia
| name_local        = Εορδαία
|type = municipality
| image_map         = 2011 Dimos Eordeas.png
| periph            = [[Western Macedonia]]
| periphunit        = [[Kozani (regional unit)|Kozani]]
| seat              = [[Ptolemaida]]
| pop_municipality  = 42515
| area_municipality = 708.8
| population_as_of  = 2021
| elevation         = 
| coordinates       = {{coord|40|31|N|21|41|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| postal_code = 
| area_code = 
| licence = 
| mayor = 
| website = 
| image_skyline     = Dimos Eordaias Topo.png
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'''Eordaia''' ({{langx|el|Εορδαία}}) is a municipality in the [[Kozani (regional unit)|Kozani]] regional unit, [[Western Macedonia]], [[Greece]]. The seat of the municipality is the town [[Ptolemaida]].<ref name=Kallikratis>{{Cite web|url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL8-SrPzKAEPjjtIl9LGdkF53UIxsx942CdyqxSQYNuqAGCF0IfB9HI6hq6ZkZV96FIukI0UzcPsWCK0LpLhpa7rhiWB4R5ntTnoWw7U8E1Amg.|title=ΦΕΚ A 87/2010, Kallikratis reform law text|language=el|publisher=[[Government Gazette (Greece)|Government Gazette]]}}</ref> The municipality has an area of 708.807&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 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-21 }}</ref> The population was 42,515 in 2021.<ref name="census21" />

==Municipality==
The municipality Eordaia was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 5 former municipalities, that became municipal units:<ref name=Kallikratis/>
*[[Agia Paraskevi, Kozani|Agia Paraskevi]]
*[[Mouriki]]
*[[Ptolemaida]]
*[[Vermio, Kozani|Vermio]]
*[[Vlasti]]

==Province==
The province of Eordaia ({{langx|el|Επαρχία Εορδαίας}}) was one of the [[provinces of Greece|provinces]] of the Kozani Prefecture. Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipality Eordaia, and a few villages of the municipality [[Kozani]].<ref name=census91>{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00086.pdf |title=Detailed census results 1991 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183824/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00086.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-03 }}&nbsp;{{small|(39&nbsp;MB)}} {{in lang|el|fr}}</ref> It was abolished in 2006.

==History==
{{See also|Eordaea}}
The history of Eordaia can be found stretching long before 2000 BCE when the first [[Greeks]] known as the [[Mycenean Greeks]] began to inhabit this area.<ref name=":1" /> Remnants of copper mines exploited from 2700 up until 1200 BCE indicate strongly that the [[Greeks]] inhabited Eordaia for many years.<ref name=":1" /> Iron mines have also been exploited in the region.<ref name=":1">D. C. Samsaris, Les mines et la metallurgie de fer et de cuivre dans la province romaine de Macédoine, Klio 69(1987), 1, p. 154, 156–157, 169–170</ref>

==Recent discoveries==
Within a 50-year period, paleontologists and archaeologists have made many discoveries due to the industrial development of the Eordaian countryside. In particular, the skeletal [[fossils]] of a prehistoric mammoth, a prehistoric [[elephant]], and [[Stone Age]] tools have all been found within the province of Eordaia. These finds add to knowledge on the variety of animal species and human artifacts in this particular region of western Macedonia.{{Citation needed|date=February 2008}} In addition, two [[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|ancient Macedonian]] tombs have been excavated within Eordaia. The first was located in a rural area of the village of [[Spilia, Kozani|Spilia]],<ref>[http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/2/eh251.jsp?obj_id=880 Macedonian Tomb at Spelia], odysseus.culture.gr</ref> while the second was located in the village of [[Pyrgoi]].

==References==
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==External links==
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*[https://www.eordaia.gov.gr/ Official website]

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