Kamenikia


Kamenikia is the name of a neighborhood in the city of Serres, Greece today.
During the antiquity in the place of Kamenikia was flourishing a settlement depended adiministratively on the nearby ancient city of Serres. The settlement was located on the hill named "Besik-tepe" on the eastern bank of the stream of St. Barbara, in which there was a little below a bridge. From this bridge was passing a Roman road connecting the ancient city of Serres with Skotoussa and Heraclea Sintica.
In the Byzantine years there was in the same place the monastery of Agios Nikolaos , which was property of the monastery of Hilandar of Mount Athos.
The neighborhood is well known today because in its church of Evangelistria was killed the hero of Macedonian struggle Kapetan Mitrousis born in the nearby village of Homontos.