Neo Souli () is a village in Serres regional unit of Central Macedonia, located east of Serres. Since the 2011 administrative reform it is a municipal unit of the municipality Emmanouil Pappas. It has a population of 2,051 inhabitants (2021) and until 1928 it was named Soumpaskioi.
History At the southeastern end of Neo Souli, on the "Agrianista" hill, has been found an ancient settlement, with continuous habitation from prehistoric to modern years. D. C. Samsaris, Historical Geography of Eastern Macedonia during the Antiquity (in Greek), Thessaloniki 1976 (Society for Macedonian Studies), p. 175-176.
In Roman times the settlement belonged to the territory ("chora") of the city of Sirra (modern Serres), from which it was administratively dependent. D. C. Samsaris, A History of Serres (in the Ancient and Roman Times) (in Greek), Thessaloniki 1999, p. 162-163 (Website of Municipality of Serres) South of Neo Souli the ancient necropolis was extended, where various archaeological findings (vases, reliefs, coins etc.) were found, as well as Greek inscriptions of the Roman imperial period.D. C. Samsaris, La vallée du Bas-Strymon á l’ époque impériale (Contribution épigraphique á la topographie, l’ onomastique, l’ histoire et aux cultes de la province romaine de Macédoine), Δωδώνη 18(1989), τεύχ. 1, σ. 268-269, αρ. 100-102 = The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 100, # PH150739) The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 101, # PH150740)The Packard Humanities Institute (Samsaris, Bas-Strymon 102, # PH150741)
See also List of settlements in the Serres regional unit
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