[a] The highest point nearby is 331 metres above sea level, 1.0 km southwest of Akritas.

[8] In the Ottoman tax registers of the non-Muslim population from the province of Avret Hisar from 1619 to 1620 it is noted that the village had 3 hanets (households) liable for jizya.

[9] The "Ethnography of vilayets Adrianople, Monastir and Salonika", published in Constantinople in 1878 and reflects the statistics of the male population of 1873, Vlad (Vladya) is referred to as settlement in said Aurelia Hisar (Kilkis) with 50 households, the residents are 264 Bulgarians.

[12] At the outbreak of the Balkan War in 1912, two people from Vladaya were Bulgarian volunteers in the Macedonian-Edirne militia.

[13] In 1913, after the Second Balkan War, the village incorporated into Greece and its Bulgarian inhabitants emigrated to Bulgaria.

After the Balkan wars, Sarakatsani settled in the village[14] and after 1922, Pontic Greek refugees from Kerasounta (modern Giresun, Turkey) in the Black Sea were resettled here.