Amyntaio

Amyntaio 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 Vegoritida, Petres, Heimatitida and Zazari. Garments, women’s fashions and burial customs in northern Eordaia 3,000 years ago are coming to light among the hundreds of funeral offerings in a forgotten necropolis dating from the Iron Age in western Macedonia.