Residential facilities dating back to the Bronze Age have been investigated in recent decades in the wider lowland area. Bryges would later be expelled from the area by Macedonian tribes and settle in Chalkidiki. The area, according to Herodotus, was where the fertile Gardens of King Midas were situated. From the ancient history of the area it is stated that its inhabitants were Bryges, a Thracian tribe better known in history as Phrygians, who settled all over Imathia around the 12th century BC. No ancient settlement has been identified in the current location where Naoussa is built. History Flag of the revolutionaries from Naousa (1821). It had the same territory as the present municipality. The province of Naousa ( Greek: Επαρχία Νάουσας) was one of the provinces of Imathia. The municipality has an area of 425.491 km 2, the municipal unit 300.891 km 2. The municipality Naousa was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 3 former municipalities, that became municipal units: In the Middle Ages, when the city was under the rule of Serbian rulers, it had the name Njeguš(Serb. to flow or float (hence also nautical), to a noun. Another folk etymology considers the name "Naousa" to be a transformation of the verb "nao", i.e. A more likely possibility is its establishment as "Nea Augusta" by the Romans, with "Niausta" and finally "Naousa" being a corruption of it. Naousa was formerly also known as Niausta. At the site of the women's sacrifice, in the Stoubanoi area next to the Arapitsa river, there is a monument. The Arapitsa of Naoussa is one of the few rivers in Greece that has a feminine name the river that has gone down in history for the great sacrifice of the city's women in April 1822, who preferred that they and their children fall into its water rather than into the hands of the Turks. In the 1990s and 2000s however, most of the local factories closed, leaving Naousa with a serious (and still unresolved) unemployment problem. while streets of Naousa were named after family members. The Lanaras family built hospitals, social centers etc. Naoussa covered in snow Naoussa Municipal Park at winter Genitsaros in the traditional Mougri Mansion of the town Agios Nikolaos Park Arapitsa River that is crossing the townĪn industrial center since the 19th century, for most of the 20th century the history of Naousa was closely intertwined with that of the Lanaras family, local industrialists who, at the height of their influence, employed almost half of Naousa's population in their textile factories. Since 1955, by royal decree, it has been designated as a heroic city for the struggle and sacrifices of the inhabitants in 1822, during the Greek War of Independence. The wider municipality, after the administrative reform of the Kallikratis plan, had a population of 32,470 inhabitants. According to the 2011 census its population was 20,176 inhabitants. It is located at the foot of the Vermio Mountains. Naousa ( Greek: Νάουσα, historically Νάουσσα - Naoussa Aromanian: Naustã), officially The Heroic City of Naousa is a city in the Imathia regional unit of Central Macedonia, Greece with a population of 21,139 (2016).
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