Banitsa (ruins) explained

Banitsa (el|Καρυαί - Karié, Bulgarian/Macedonian:^[1] Баница, Banitsa or Banica, Ottoman Turkish:^[2] بانيچه Turkish Baniçe) is a deserted village in Serres regional unit, northern Greece. Its ruins are situated some 15 km north-east of the town of Serres, near the present-day village of Oreini, on the southern slopes of the Vrontous mountains. During the Ottoman period it had a Bulgarian population.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]} The village was destroyed by the Greek Army during the Second Balkan War, and the population migrated to Bulgaria.^[7] Its inhabitants settled in Mehomiya, Bachevo, Nevrokop, Sveti Vrach, and Novo Delchevo.

Banitsa was the site of the death of the Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary Gotse Delchev, who was killed in a skirmish with Ottoman police forces on 4 May 1903.^[8]

Notes and References

1. Book: Republichkata zaednica na kulturata. Sovremenost: literatura, umetnost, opštestveni prašanja. 53. 2005. Kočo Racin.
2. Rumeli-i Şahane Haritası, Harvard Map Collection, Ottoman Empire Series, Index Map, 1:210,000 Scale, c. 1901/1902, http://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:4952983$17i Retrieved 11.05.2016
3. Йордан Иванов. „Местните имена между Долна Струма и Долна Места". София, БАН, 1982, стр.20.
4. „Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г." Македонски научен институт, София, 1995, стр.116-117.
5. http://www.promacedonia.org/vk/vk_2_14.htm Васил Кънчов. „Македония. Етнография и статистика". София, 1900, стр.176.
6. D.M.Brancoff. "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne". Paris, 1905, р.198-199.
7. Web site: Weekend - Към Бяло море по стъпките на Гоце - Стандарт . 2010-10-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160604215723/http://paper.standartnews.com/bg/article.php?d=2007-09-01&article=201959 . 4 June 2016 . dead .
8. Book: Military History of Macedonia. Vanče Stojčev. Military Academy "General Mihailo Apostolski". Skopje. 2004. 9989-134-05-7.