"Orfan" redirects here. For the concept in genetics, see
Orphan gene .
Municipal unit in Greece
Orfani (Greek : Ορφάνι , formerly Ορφάνιον - Orfanion ) is a village and a former municipality in the Kavala regional unit , East Macedonia and Thrace , Greece . Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pangaio , of which it is a municipal unit[ 2] (municipal unit of Orfano[ 3] ). The municipal unit has an area of 200.862 km2 .[ 4] The municipal unit of Orfano has a population of 5,076, and the community of Orfani has 774 inhabitants (2021).[ 1] The seat of the municipality was Galipsos .
History
In the Ottoman tahrir defter (number 167) of 1530, the settlement is recorded as a village with the name Orfana , within the kaza of Zihne .[ 5] The town has been identified with the Byzantine Chrysopolis in Macedonia.[ 6] [ 7]
References
^ a b "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
^ "ΦΕΚ A 87/2010, Kallikratis reform law text" (in Greek). Government Gazette .
^ De Jure (in English). Hellenic Statistical Authority
^ "Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)" (PDF) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece.
^ Ünal, Uğur; Budak, Mustafa; Bayram, Sabahattin; Yıldıztaş, Mümin (2013). Özkılınç, Ahmet; Coşkun, Ali; Sivridağ, Abdullah (eds.). Osmanlı Yer Adları: I - RUMELİ EYALETİ (1514-1550) (in Turkish). Ankara, Türkiye. pp. VII–VIII, 12, 634. ISBN 9789751962386 . {{cite book }}
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^ A. Brückner et al., Archiv für Slavische Mitwirkung , 17. Band (1895), "an der Küste Ghrysopolis (Grisopoli der ital. Seekarten), das jetzige Orfano"
^ Joachim Lelewel, Géographie du Moyen Âge , tomes III et IV (Bruxelles 1852), "la maritime Χρυσόπολις, Grisopoli, ville d'or, à laquelle les Latins donnèrent le nom de Conlessa, laquelle, déplacée par différents désastres, conserve son nom dans Orfano"