The Community of Ergates and Kroussia Municipality (Kilkis Nomarchy-Greece) are finalizing their fraternization procedures. The local authorities of both parties have paid visits to each other and have scheduled the fraternization ceremonies for 2006.

Aim of both Local Authorities is the engagement of all organized groups, so as to ensure a long lasting and beneficial for the inhabitants of both parties fraternization.

Both the Mayor of Kroussia Mr. Giorgos Gavrielides and the President of the Community Council Mr. Kyriacos Christodoulou are certain that the fraternization will be successful since Kroussia Municipality and Tamassos area have much in common. The river, the semi-mountainous landscape, the mountainous morphology and the green scenery, the ancient monuments, the culture and the hospitality of the people, their progressive ideas and many more make you feel right at home.

LOCATION OF KROUSSIA MUNICIPALITY

Kroussia Municipality is located on the northwester part of Thessalonica. It is the largest Municipality in Kilkis Nomarchy and the third largest in Greece. The Municipality consists of 19 Communities and 37 Settlements. The local authorities are domiciled in Terpyllos and the whole population reaches 6,826 inhabitants (census 2001). Kroussia area with its little villages and settlements, located on the foothills or across Mount Dysopos (Kroussia), covered in forests and flowers with the biggest garden in the Balkan area, the Botanical Garden, with rich flora and fauna and natural beauties, has its own unique and diachronic participation in the history of Greece and especially Macedonia.

The name of Kroussia area is inextricably connected, according to Strabon, with Kroussios, the son of Mygdonas.