Ossa (Greek: Όσσα, Bulgarian/Macedonian: Висока), known before 1926 as Visoka (Βυσσώκα),[2] is a village and a community of the Lagkadas municipality.
[3] The 2021 census recorded 486 inhabitants in the community of Ossa.
[5] The village's older name (Visoka) comes from the Slavic word meaning "high" or "elevated".
In 1997, the Greek newspaper Eleftherotypia reported that authorities confiscated the icons of the local church in Ossa because they were inscribed in the Slavic alphabet.
[6] The community of Ossa consists of two separate settlements:[1] This Central Macedonia location article is a stub.