Amyntaio

Amyntaio (also Amydeo, Greek: Αμύνταιο, Turkish: Soroviç) is a town and municipality in the Florina regional unit of Macedonia, Greece. The population of Amyntaio proper is 4,407, while that of the entire municipality is 18,975 (2001). Amyntaio station is a railway junction, where the line to Kozani branches off from the Platy-Florina main line. On March 4, 2007, an unknown civilization around four lakes that lasted from 6000 BC to 60 BC has been uncovered in two important excavations of a Neolithic and an Iron Age settlement in the Amyntaio district of Florina, northern Greece. A 7,300-year-old home with a timber floor, remnants of food supplies and blackberry seeds are among the findings in a Neolithic settlement near the lakes of...