Kastanoussa

Kastanoussa, known before 1926 as Palmes, is a village and a community in Serres with a population of 635 inhabitants as recorded in the 2021 census. The village and community belongs to the municipality of Sintiki.

Geography

The village is located in the southern foothills of Belasitsa, near the borders with North Macedonia and Bulgaria.

History

In the Ottoman Empire

In 1891 Georgi Strezov wrote:
According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov by 1900 "Palmesh" is a Bulgarian Muslims' settlement. 1150 Bulgarian Muslims were living there at the time.

Under Greek sovereignty

During the First Balkan War the village was under Bulgarian control, but after the Second Balkan War in 1913 it was incorporated within Greece.