Aisymi

On a low hill just southeast of the village of Aisymi in Evros, a small Byzantine fort survives only as a few scattered remains. The structure measures a mere eight by seven metres, with walls two metres thick, now preserved to no more than a metre and a half in height. Its construction style suggests a Middle Byzantine date, though nothing is known of its history. The hill itself bears older traces: three concentric ancient enclosures, the highest about ninety metres long, the second fifteen to twenty metres below it, and a fragment of the third on the bushy western slope, some seventy to a hundred metres lower. A continuous stone pile marks the perimeter of the first two. A modern Greek Army bunker, apparently abandoned and quite recent, occupies the same hilltop, and its construction likely destroyed part of the medieval fort, though the extent is unknown. The modern village shares no connection with the ancient Aisymi of the Strymon region.