[a] The highest point in the vicinity is 331 metres above sea level, 2.9 km north of Megali Sterna.

[1] In the 19th century Chuguntsi was a Bulgarian village in the Demirhisar Kaza of the Sanjak of Serres of the Ottoman Empire.

In the "Ethnography of the Provinces of Adrianople, Monastir and Thessaloniki", published in Constantinople in 1878 and reflecting the statistics of the male population from 1873, Chiguntsi (Tchigountzi) is listed as a settlement with 368 Bulgarians in 70 households.

The Cugunci Sector of the Macedonian front was the scene of fighting between the Bulgarians and the Entente forces dominated by the Armée d'Orient (1915–1919).

[13] To the north of the village is the church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross which is a post-Byzantine three-aisled basilica of the middle of the 19th century and has been characterised as a monument in need of special state preservation.

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross from the middle of the 19th century was declared a historical monument on June 27, 1987.