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{{Other uses|Yenice (disambiguation)}}
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 |name = Genisea
 |name_local = Γενισέα
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|periph = [[East Macedonia and Thrace]]
|periphunit         = [[Xanthi (regional unit)|Xanthi]]
|municipality = [[Abdera, Thrace|Abdera]]
|municunit = [[Vistonida]]
 |population = 2049
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 |image_skyline      = Πολιτιστικό κέντρο Γενισέας 1.jpg
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'''Genisea''' ({{langx|el|Γενισέα}}) is a town in the [[Vistonida]] municipal unit, within the municipality of [[Abdera, Thrace|Abdera]] in the [[Xanthi (regional unit)|Xanthi regional unit]] of [[Greece]]. It is the seat of the municipality Abdera. According to the 2021 census, the population of Genisea was 2,049 inhabitants.<ref name=census21/>

== History ==
Genisea was ruled by the [[Ottoman Empire]] from 1478 to 1912, and was known as {{Transliteration|ota|Yenice}}; more specifically {{Transliteration|ota|Karasu Yenicesi}} (after the [[Nestos River]], {{Transliteration|ota|Mesta Karasu}}) or {{Transliteration|ota|Tütün Yenicesi}} ('tobacco'), to distinguish it from {{Transliteration|ota|Yenice-i Vardar}} (modern [[Giannitsa]]).<ref name="sezen">Tahir Sezen, ''Osmanlı Yer Adları'', Ankara 2017, T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü Yayın No: 26 [http://devletarsivleri.gov.tr/varliklar/dosyalar/eskisiteden/yayinlar/genel-mudurluk-yayinlar/osmanli_yer_adlari.pdf#page=820 ''s.v.'', p. 810] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305221756/https://www.devletarsivleri.gov.tr/varliklar/dosyalar/eskisiteden/yayinlar/genel-mudurluk-yayinlar/osmanli_yer_adlari.pdf#page=820 |date=2023-03-05 }}</ref> In a [[Defter|tahrir defter]] of 1454–1455, it is recorded as {{transliteration|ota|Yenicepazar}}. According to this record, the town was divided into nine quarters and had 154 [[Muslims|Muslim]] [[Turkish people|Turkish]] households, and about 700 people in total; seven of whom were [[imam]]s, indicating the existence of seven mosques. There were no Christians in the town, and it remained a purely Muslim city for centuries.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=YENİCE-i KARASU |url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/yenice-i-karasu |access-date=2023-04-04 |website=TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi |language=tr}}</ref> In the Ottoman tax registry of 1519 ([[Hijri year|Hijri]] 925) the town was recorded as {{transliteration|ota|Yenice-i Karasu}}, and was inhabited only by Muslims (215 households and 124 [[bachelor]]s); it was in the jurisdiction of Kasım Paşa, and it was also a [[Hass (Ottoman)|hass]], directly owned by the Sultan.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=GÖKBİLGİN |first=M. TAYYİB |date=1956 |title=KANUNÎ SULTAN SÜLEYMAN DEVRİ BAŞLARINDA RUMELİ EYALETİ, LİVALARI, ŞEHİR VE KASABALARI |url=https://belleten.gov.tr/tam-metin-pdf/1214/tur |journal=Belleten |volume=20 |issue=78 |page=265 |issn=0041-4255 |eissn=2791-6472 }}</ref> According to the accounting defter of 1530 (Hijri 936), which contains the records from ten years prior, there were 204 Muslim households (approximately 1,000 people), and the town was recorded as {{transliteration|ota|Yenice-i Karasu}}. There were also some Christians in the villages of the [[kaza]], where Genisea was the administrative center. The district had 110 villages consisting of 3,022 Muslim and 1,729 Christian households; most of the Christians lived in ten large villages. In the tahrir defter of 1568–1569 (Hijri 976), the town was included in the [[Süleymaniye Mosque]] ''[[Waqf|vakif]]'' in [[Istanbul]]. At that time, there were 223 Muslim households and 88 bachelors (1200 people in total) in the town, and no Christians.<ref name=":0" />

Under the spellings "Yenidje" or "Yenidze", Genisea was famous for its superior [[Oriental tobacco]], especially suited for [[cigarette]]s.  It lent its name to the [[Yenidze|Yenidze tobacco factory]] building in [[Dresden]] and to the British [[Yenidje Tobacco Company Limited]].

==See also==
*[[Vafeika]]

==References==
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[[Category:Populated places in Xanthi (regional unit)]]
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