Ardamerium

Ardameri (Greek: Αρδαμέρι) is a village in the regional unit of Thessaloniki of Greece, at the foot of Mount Chortiatis, on the site of the Ancient city of Ardamerium.

It is situated 38 km east of Thessaloniki. It is part of the municipality of Koroneia, which also includes the villages of Agios Vasileios, Gerakarou, Vasiloudi and Lagkadikia. It is a traditional Greek village with scattered houses and a maze of pathways often leading to a dead end. The village has some 900 registered voters, but only 125 permanent inhabitants.

Ardamerium (also called Herculea) was an Ancient city in Macedonia.

Ardamerium itself was destroyed during the Turkish conquest of Thessaloniki in 1430. It was again destroyed in the 1821 suppression of the Macedonian uprising, led by Emmanouel Pappas, during the Greek War of Independence.

As a city in the Roman province of Macedonia Prima, it was important enough to become a suffragan bishopric of its capital's Metropolitan Archbishopric of Thessalonica.

In the Notitia Episcopatuum of Byzantine Emperor Leo VI the Wise (886–912) the bishopric of Ardamerium (also called Herculea) is mentioned as the former see of Bishop Meletius, who signed the acts of the 1638 synod in Constantinople that condemned Cyril Lucaris for not having disowned the Calvinist Eastern Confession of the Christian Faith attributed to him.

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