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The Kerkini of yesterday and today

Exakontizomaste with the help of faster transport of mind, almost 20000 years before today, was then the last glacial period that saw our old continent, the glacier melt away in the Rhodope Mountains and the terrifying water volumes resulting rolled from the mountainsides as down low in a plain that much later transformed in the plain of Serres who know.

One was located in the southern part of the plain and the called historians “Kerkinitida” ή “Kerkoyro” and the other was in the Northwest and had the name “Prasiada”.
The centuries passed, the River with the torrents have continued their work separating again and again the Lakes, as the 20th century came found under aplwta baltotopia and innumerable small lakes, two were the greatest: achinos East and Kerkini, in place of the ancient Prasiadas. The Kerkini to the period of the Ottoman rule was known as Mpoytkobo, was clearly most small from Lake achinos and several have even been times when completely dry up, all this world cheer water life forms, vegetable and animal.
However, the river has not always been a blessing for the residents of the place. Dynamic and unguarded, not at all times remain within limits of spread furiously, flooding villages and crops, reaching almost as the root of the mountains and hills. The situation for residents was really very nasty especially after the Balkan wars the catastrophe and the installation in the area of refugees, then the Earth was valuable because it was necessary.
The 1928 the Greek Government assigns to the company John Monks-Ulen & Co from the USA the work of conversion of the plain of Serres "... tens of thousands of acres of fertile fields of ...'' six years later, the foreign company that became known in Greek as Oylen, terminating the project had, Lake Achinos Brooks and several marshes, the Plains were settled with mounds of Struma, and a barrier was erected in 1932 near the village Lithotopos, the first he block the flow of the waters of the River was the beginnings of the creation of Lake kerkini as artificial water savings as we know it today.
The purpose that created the artificial lake was threefold: to tackle floods, the increased demand for irrigation of crops and the containment of materials that convey the Struma.
However again the river filled with debris on the Lake, the 1952 forced to raise the levee, again the river outside of the limits, the Lake was filled with deposits of fertile land that people wished to cultivate, and the 1982 Opens the new dam, but River, still exists and sets differential by humans, Maybe pushes us to confront the situation with another Visual, This coexistence with nature and not this binge of exploitation of.
As was next, all changes in geomorphology and hydrology of the site the appropriate adjustments followed by plants and animals, which with vigour and determination over the deadlocks. So the Kingdom of water could be maintained as ΄΄paradeisos on Earth ΄΄me invaluable natural riches, How did this happen; the present Lake is located on the ancient wetland site, from the heaven of ancient aerinos also a passing corridor that follow birds migrating.
The Lake is relatively shallow with rich aquatic and riparian vegetation and mild slopes bas-relief in the North and Northeast, It has uninterrupted power supply from the River in both water and nutrients but also because the Lake periodically presents high productivity. Because of these conditions in other ponds do not apply, It was possible in a human project to provide stronghold and refuge life unique example reservoir live in our country.

The path inside the time

As every river, so the Struma, believer in the role of, millenniums carrying materials that methodically piling on the plain of Serres. Over the mountains and the hills ploytainoyn from plants and animals, ancient writers, as Herodotus, cite crowded pine forests, Oaks , Chestnut and beech trees. When the 480 e.g.. troops arrived, constructed to pass the Struma, a wooden bridge based on boats. Present-day historians, studying the remains of ancient Amphipolis, support that had to be cut from the surrounding forests 12,000 trees for a huge bridge that lifted the endless Persian army. Amid the lush vegetation indicate, also, the ancient geographers that lived many large mammals : Deer, wild boars, bears, Bulls, but lions, leopards and leagues !
Major changes with great impact began in the early 20th century following the intense historical changes in the Balkans. In the 1920s, and after the Asia minor catastrophe, 85000 katatregmenoi refugees, arriving in the region of Serres and villages close to wetlands, informed that the place is karperos and ponds have fish, here people have pinned hopes for their future, doyleytarides as was, the hard work is not the were shocked, were shocked, though, Malaria really decimated their, unusual as it was in this relentless disease. The same decade the Greek Government incorporates the region into a drainage program which main objectives had been to acquire arable land and irrigation of, coping with floods and combat malaria, so, the 1932 completes the construction of the first dam of Struma.
The dramatic changes in the nature and landscape of the wetland begin, around the Lake, in a radius of 10 kilometers from the shores of, have been developed 21 villages, remnants of ancient structures and ancient customs rooted one encounters in them, as the wall in Mandraki and the celebration of Anastenariwn, every year, in the village of Kerkini. Some of the villages had strategic importance for the Greek forces during the Balkan wars, as the Vyroneia where he had installed the Greek HQ, Here the Venizelos and Barry worked for the terms of peace, an inscription on a plane of the railway station testifies to the fact.

The deluge of Deucalion's era that some, (Kaftantzis 1972) place him in 1796 e.g.. must consider a real event for the region of Serres, paromoioys ΄΄kataklysmoys '' Strymwnas often caused. According to Homer the Paeonian originally resided in the Valley of Axios and then moved to the area of Strymon took part in the Trojan war (about 1200 e.g.) with the side of the Trojans. As Herodotus was sex related with them and of course Greek-speaking as the Trojans, It also refers, Hector's campaign in the area of Strymon, before the Trojan to help friends of the THRACIANS who was also on Trojan war allies.
Hesiod is the first (round in 750 e.g.) the River with the name Strymwn, When Euripides son of Strymon ΄΄kalligefyroy΄΄ typically Thracian King Rhesus was who took part in the Trojan war and was killed by Diomedes.

In the Pseydoploytarcho the teleytis ΄΄akoysas on the Struma Risos... Ford Palaistinos erripse unto himself , son of Poseidon and also King of Thrace. ΄΄echwn war ... the Haliacmon stratigon epempse son and the propetesteron fighting anirethi, on do not ... Palaistinos. akoysas.. Ford Konozon erripse unto itself that this Palaistinos from wnomasthi΄΄. The ΄΄Strynonia΄΄ arrived on Earth and the mythical Hercules when performing the tenth labour was trying to take his Seizing the oxen, then apollodoros, Former ΄΄Strymona mempsamenos River when the Kennel emplisas petrais aplwtwn poisen΄΄ waterway.

Himself a hero serving the Sylea a bad form of Fyllidas ampeloktimona raged along the river and turned toward their vineyards which kataplimmyrise. At the junction of Aggitis in the former Lake Achinos place some ΄΄Nission pedion΄΄ from which Pluto grabbed Persephone in the bowels of the earth when the last stretched out her hand to cut a Daffodil. Must be considered certain that DIS­tant that season when his lands were Pedioy΄΄ ΄΄Nissioy mechanical behavior of very pricey by today's. Beneath the surface there is a thick layer of silt ground, until 40 and most measures, in this mire after a few years to sink and found in the arms of Pluto not merely a Persephone but a modern earth-moving machine.

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