Orfani
# Orfani

Orfani (Greek: Ορφάνι, formerly Ορφάνιον - Orfanion) is a village and a former municipality in the Kavala regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pangaio, of which it is a municipal unit (municipal unit of Orfano). The municipal unit has an area of 200.862 $km^2.$ The municipal unit has a population of 5,249, and the village of Orfani has 706 inhabitants (2011). The seat of the municipality was Galipsos.

## History

In the Ottoman tahrir defter (number 167) of 1530, the settlement is recorded as a village with the name Orfana, within the kaza of Zihne. The town has been identified with the Byzantine Chrysopolis in Macedonia.

