Banitsa (ruins)

Banitsa ( - Karié, Bulgarian/Macedonian: Баница, "Banitsa" or "Banica", Ottoman Turkish: "بانيچه" Turkish "Baniça") is a deserted former village in Serres regional unit, northern Greece. Its ruins are situated some 15 km north-east of the town of Serres, near the present-day village of Oreini, on the southern slopes of the Vrontous mountains. During the Ottoman period it had a Bulgarian population. The village was destroyed by the Greek Army during the Second Balkan War, and the population migrated to Bulgaria . Its inhabitants settled in Mehomiya, Bachevo, Nevrokop, Sveti Vrach and Novo Delchevo.
Banitsa was the site of the death of the Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary Gotse Delchev, who was killed in a skirmish with Ottoman police forces on 4 May 1903.