Orfani

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).

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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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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: ΚΒ

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Population: 607
Elevation: 70
Image: Orfano.jpg
Dialing code: 2592

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native label: Ορφάνι
postal code: 640 08

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== 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.

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