Emmanouil Pappas (municipality)

Emmanouil Pappas Εμμανουήλ Παππάς
Municipality
Emmanouil Pappas Location within the region
Coordinates: 41°05′N 23°43′E / 41.083°N 23.717°E / 41.083; 23.717
Country	Greece
Administrative region	Central Macedonia
Regional unit	Serres
Government
• Mayor	Dimitrios Notas[1] (since 2014)
Area
• Municipality	337.9 km2 (130.5 sq mi)
• Municipal unit	217.5 km2 (84.0 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]
• Municipality	11,585
• Density	34/km2 (89/sq mi)
• Municipal unit	6,363
• Municipal unit density	29/km2 (76/sq mi)
• Community	475
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Vehicle registration	ΕΡ
Website	edemocracy-empapas.gr

Emmanouil Pappas (Greek: Εμμανουήλ Παππάς) is a municipality in the Serres regional unit, Greece. The seat of the municipality is in Chryso.^[3] The municipality takes its name after a local historical figure who played an important part as a leader in the Greek War of Independence against Ottoman rule. Emmanouil Pappas was born in the village that was previously called Dovista (Δοβίστα), probably of Slavic origin, though historians are uncertain of the exact root of that word. One conjecture involves the mispronunciation of the Latin 'Dove est', meaning 'where is it?', because, apparently, the village was undetectable from a distance.^{[citation needed]}