Vyroneia

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Vyroneia, Vyronia, Vironeia or 'Vironia (Greek: Βυρώνεια, Macedonian Slavic: Hadzhi-bejlik), is a town located in the municipality of Petritsi in the Serres prefecture south of the Bulgarian border. The older name of the town was Chatzibelika or Hatzibelika. Vyronia is situated between the mountains to the north and the Strymon plain to the south. The Strymon river flows south of Vyronia and is located 5 km north of the shores of Kerkini. Vyroneia is connected with GR-65 (Kilkis - Sidirokastro) and with GR-63 linking Serres and Sofia via Sidirokastro and with Bulgarian Route 1. Vyroneia is located east of Lake Doirani, S of Petric, Bulgaria, W of Sidirokastro and NW of Serres.

1 Nearest places
2 Geography and Information
3 Other
4 Historical population
5 Persons
6 External links
7 See also

[edit] Nearest places

Ano Vyroneia, north
Neo Petritsi

[edit] Geography and Information

Location:
- Longitude: 23.285 (23°15'4") E
- Latitude: 41.294 (41°15'42") N
Postal code: 620 43
Elevation:
- Lowest: Strymon River
- Centre: 52 m, 160 m in Ano Vyronei
- Highest: mountain area
Dialing code: +11+30-2320 (030-23230)

Farmlands and forests along with grasslands cover the southern and the central part of the plain and to the east. The mountains that are covered with grasslands and forests dominate the north and forests to the west and around the lake. Birds around Vyronia include the Buzz Sparrowhawk and the Peregrine Falcon.

Vyroneia, then Chatzibeliks was a military area of Constantine I of Greece during the Second Balkan War. Here he also participated with the prime minister Eleftherios Venizelos received on July 1, 1913 of the representatives from Bulgaria for sigining an armistice treaty after the Greek victory. In the military base features a plane tree near the town's train station.

Today;s Vyroneia has 1,134 inhabitants at the census of 2001. Nearby the train station is the National Aquarium of Vyroneia of the Vyroneia Public Aquarium (the second in Greece after Rhodes) of which shelters the oldest storage buildings for trains of OSE. The Vyroneia Cultural Society presents every June called after the town "Vyroneia" the cultural shows. The Olympic Flame on July 2004 passed through Vyroneia after arriving from Sidirokastro to Kato Poroia and Doirani.

[edit] Other

Vyroneia has a small school, a lyceum, a church and a small square (plateia). Vyroneia also has a junior football/soccer team as well as a train station connecting the Thessaloniki - Alexandroupoli line and an aquarium.