Podochori (Greek: Ποδοχώρι) is a village in the region of Kavala, northern Greece. According to the 2021 Greek census, the village had 790 inhabitants.
History & Demographics
Southeast of the village there is a settlement of prehistoric and early historical times with visible surface relics.[2] Within the village, next to the church, ceramics of Hellenistic era has been found.[3] On the road to the village Akropotamos, ruins of a triple Early ChristianBasilica have been found.[4]
The settlement is recorded as village and as "Podogoryani" in the Ottoman Tahrir Defter number 167 dating to 1530 and written within the kaza of Drama.[5]
A fire started near the village on 8 August 2015 in rough terrain with low vegetation, which because of the strong wind expanded quickly, threatening houses of the settlement. It got under control and extinguished after an all-night fight of 11 fire trucks and more than 50 firefighters of the Hellenic Fire Service.[9][10]
A small fire started in the forest near the settlement on 26 August 2016, which came under control and got extinguished after the intervention of 3 fire trucks, 7 firefighters and 2 M-18 Dromaders of the Hellenic Fire Service.[11]
Sights
On the bank of the stream of Kriorema there is an Ottoman bath. The bathroom, measuring 6.60 by 4.50 meters, consists of two rooms, a rectangular hallway and the main square room, which is housed in a brick dome. The monument probably dates back to the 17th century and was part of a larger building complex.[12]
Located 100 meters from the road to village Podochori-Akropotamos, the ruins of a three-aisled early Christian basilica with painted walls and a wall-mosaic decoration are located. The basilica was timbered and the Narthex, the exarthex, the baptistery and the mosaics are preserved.[4][13][14]
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