Aloros is one of the older villages of our municipality. It is built
near an ancient settlement,next to the place that ruins of ancient fortress are
found,a place called ancient Evropos,
ast the historians say.
It is southern of Aridea,
next to the road to Edessa
and Thessalonica, it is built
in the fringes of a hill with church of Saint George on the top, that is built
by the refugees residents that came, in 1922, from the region of Nikopoli of Pontos.
From 1960 and afterwards the majority of residents immigrated in the
centre and in big cities in Greece. Today has 550 residents and deal mainly with
the agriculture. Fruiterer trees (peaches, pears, apples and other), vines, asparaguses
are cultivated. The church of Saint Nikolaos, in the square of the village, celebrates
on 6 December. In the village exists the church of Saint George above the hill,
the chapel of Saint Hristoforos and the church of Saint Theodoros with a very
old temple.
Map & Distances
Altitude:
120 meters
Longitude:
22o 05' 20.3" E
Latitude:
40o 55' 37.69" N
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