Provatas

Community in Greece

Provatas Προβατάς
Community
41°06′N 23°38′E / 41.100°N 23.633°E / 41.100; 23.633
Country	Greece
Administrative region	Central Macedonia
Regional unit	Serres
Municipality	Serres
Municipal unit	Kapetan Mitrousi
Population (2021)^[1]
• Community	829
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Provatas (Greek: Προβατάς) is a larger village in Kapetan Mitrousi, Serres regional unit, northern Greece. It has 829 inhabitants (2021 census).^[1]

Until 1923, the village was called Yenikoi or Yeniköy and inhabited mostly by Turks and Bulgarians.^[2]
It was hard fought over on October 3 and 4, 1916, between the 10th (Irish) Division and the Bulgarian Army. The Irish took and held the village, despite fierce and costly counterattacks by the Bulgarians.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
^ Strezov G. Two sanjaks Eastern Macedonia. Periodical of Bulgarian Literary Society in Sredets, kn.XXXVI, 1891, p 842.
^ The Capture of Yenikoi in Oct 1916. The Salonika Campaign. Dublin Fusiliers.com. Retrieved 26 February 2015.