Orfani
Sign in to saveOrfani (, formerly Ορφάνιον - Orfanion) is a village and a former municipality in the Kavala regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. The seat of the municipality was Galipsos. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pangaio, of which it is a municipal unit (municipal unit of Orfano). The municipal unit has an area of 200.862 km2. The municipal unit of Orfano has a population of 5,076, and the community of Orfani has 742 inhabitants (2021).
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Place details
- Locality
- Ορφάνι
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Ανατολικής Μακεδονίας και Θράκης
- Country
- Ελλάς
- Population
- 656
- Timezone
- Europe/Athens
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Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Orfani
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Ορφάνι
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipal unit
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- DE Orfanou.svg
- Greek Dimos.map_caption
- Location within the regional unit
- Greek Dimos.periph
- East Macedonia and Thrace
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Kavala
- Greek Dimos.municipality
- Pangaio
- Greek Dimos.pop_municunit
- 5076
- Greek Dimos.pop_community
- 774
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.area_municunit
- 200.9
- Greek Dimos.licence
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Greece
- Population
- +656
- Elevation
- +70
- Image
- Orfano.jpg
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Orfani (, formerly Ορφάνιον - Orfanion) is a village and a former municipality in the Kavala regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. The seat of the municipality was Galipsos. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pangaio, of which it is a municipal unit (municipal unit of Orfano). The municipal unit has an area of 200.862 km2. The municipal unit of Orfano has a population of 5,076, and the community of Orfani has 742 inhabitants (2021).
== History == In the Ottoman tahrir defter (number 167) of 1530, the settlement is recorded as a village with the name , within the kaza of Zihne. The town has been identified with the Byzantine Chrysopolis in Macedonia.