Asprovalta (Greek: Ασπροβάλτα, Asproválta) is a town in the regional unit of Thessaloniki in northern Greece.
Near the modern town, the ruins of a Roman station of the Via Egnatia are preserved which was called Pennana.
After the Asia Minor Disaster, 54 families from Erenköy of Troas (near the ancient city of Ophryneion) were installed forcefully in Asprovalta.
The settlement of Asia Minor refugees in Greece was one of the most important events of modern Greek history.
Residents of Erenköy (most of them) were installed in rural and urban settlements all over Greece: Athens, Lamia, Kymi, Kalamata, Tripoli, Argos, Halkida, Crete.
[5] But most of the Erenkiotes gathered in Asprovalta in the prefecture of Thessaloniki, Kato Lakkovikia (Ophrynion) and at Nicaea after the second persecution.
In September 1923 they arrived with the ship <
The architectural type that dominates is the so-called Athonite, cruciform inscribed, which has as its main feature the side niches part intended for the dances of the psalters, and the large narthex, the litti.