Orfani


Orfani 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. 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.

History

In the Ottoman tahrir defter 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.