Rentina, Thessaloniki

Rentina (Greek: Ρεντίνα) is a village and a former municipality in the Thessaloniki regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it has been a municipal unit within the municipality of Volvi.^[2] Its population was 4,874 in 2021. The municipal unit has an area of 128.770 km².^[3] The seat of the (former) municipality was in Stavros. The village Rentina (pop. 115 in 2021), part of the community Volvi, lies at the eastern end of Lake Volvi.

Rentina Ρεντίνα
Municipal unit
Rentina Location within the regional unit
Coordinates: 40°40′N 23°37′E
Country	Greece
Administrative region	Central Macedonia
Regional unit	Thessaloniki
Municipality	Volvi
Area
• Municipal unit	128.77 km2 (49.72 sq mi)
Elevation	35 m (115 ft)
Population  (2021)[1]
• Municipal unit	4,874
• Municipal unit density	38/km2 (98/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Agia Marina church

Remains of the fortress

The well preserved Rentina fort served as a strategic strong hold on the Mygdonian basin, overseeing Via Egnatia, at the most eastern domain of thema Thessalonikon and adjacent to thema Strymonikon, particularly during the last 200 years of the Byzantine Empire. References on the last military company that served at Rentina are reflected in the recordings of megas domestikos John Kantakouzenos who as participant observer specified in his History that: "[in July–August of 1334] between Thessaloniki and the fort of Rentina situated on a hill by the shore of lake Bolbi Emperor Andronikos III laid camp for his army, at a certain village known as that of the Cretans which was inhabited by an army of Cretans who for a cause had risen up and moved off the island".^[4]