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Orfani Ορφάνι
Municipal unit
OrfaniLocation within the regional unit
Coordinates: 40°47′N 23°57′E / 40.783°N 23.950°E / 40.783; 23.950
Country	Greece
Administrative region	East Macedonia and Thrace
Regional unit	Kavala
Municipality	Pangaio
Area
• Municipal unit	200.9 km (77.6 sq mi)
Population
• Municipal unit	5,076
• Municipal unit density	25/km (65/sq mi)
• Community	774
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Vehicle registration	ΚΒ

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 (municipal unit of Orfano). The municipal unit has an area of 200.862 km. The municipal unit of Orfano has a population of 5,076, and the community of Orfani has 774 inhabitants (2021). 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. The town has been identified with the Byzantine Chrysopolis in Macedonia.

References

1. ^ "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.
2. "ΦΕΚ A 87/2010, Kallikratis reform law text" (in Greek). Government Gazette.
3. De Jure (in English). Hellenic Statistical Authority
4. "Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)" (PDF) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece.
5. 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}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
6. A. Brückner et al., Archiv für Slavische Mitwirkung, 17. Band (1895), "an der Küste Ghrysopolis (Grisopoli der ital. Seekarten), das jetzige Orfano"
7. 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"

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