Arnissa
Arnissa is a town in the Pella regional unit of Macedonia, Greece. It is located near the Lake Vegoritida and Mount Kaimakchalan and is the seat of the Vegoritida Municipality. It has a population of 1,370.
History
The settlement is first mentioned by Thucydides as one of the most ancient Macedonian cities, which is identified with the ancient ruins near the present-day village of the same name, specifically on the small peninsula of Lake Vegoritida, where various archaeological findings were found. The region came under the control of the Roman empire in the 1st century BC.At the beginning of the 11th century, Ostrovo was a Bulgarian fortress, attacked unsuccessfully by the troops of the Byzantine emperor Basil II around 1015 and around 1017. The fortress fell under Byzantine control after the mass capitulation at the end of the Bulgarian-Byzantine war. The Battle of Ostrovo was fought near the town in 1041.
At the end of the 14th century, with the Ottoman conquest, Ostrovo became the seat of a mudirlik. In 1798 it came under the jurisdiction of Ali Pasha.
At the end of the 19th century, approximately 300 families lived in the settlement, of which 200 were Christian and the rest Muslim, while the population was Slavic-speaking. At the same time, tensions had begun between the patriarchal and Bulgarian Exarchists, with the latter occupying by force the two most important holy sites of the village. The survey "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne" by Dimitar Mishev concluded that the Christian population in 1905 was composed of 768 Bulgarian Exarchists and 272 Bulgarians, subordinate to the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
During the Macedonian Struggle, some Ostrovites participated in the Greek guerrilla forces, with the main Macedonian fighters being the chieftain Christos Stogiannidis. Clashes took place in the area between the Greek and Turkish armies on 3 and 4 November 1912 during the Balkan Wars.