Until the mid-19th century, the population of the village was engaged in washing
magnetite sand. With the decline of ironworking in the second half of the century, the villagers began producing charcoal, which they sold in
Serres. During the
Ottoman period it had a
Bulgarian population. According to ''Ethnographie des vilayets d'Andrinople: de Monastir, et de Salonique'', which was published in 1878, the village had 101 houses and a population of 330 males, all recorded as Bulgarians. In 1889,
Stefan Verkovich wrote that the population of the village was Bulgarian and that they engaged in agriculture. He noted that it had one school and one church. In 1891, Georgi Strezov wrote that the village had 90 houses and a population of 450, all Bulgarians, as well as a church "St. Mary" and a Greek-language school with 20 students. In statistics collected by
Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village had a population of 840, all recorded as Christian Bulgarians. In statistics collected by Dimitar Mishev (under the pseudonym Brancoff) in 1905, the village had a population of 1080, all
Exarchist Bulgarians, with one Bulgarian primary school, one teacher and 38 students. On 4 May 1903,
IMRO revolutionary
Gotse Delchev was killed here in a skirmish with
Ottoman police forces. The village was destroyed by the
Greek Army during the
Second Balkan War, and the population migrated to
Bulgaria. Its inhabitants settled in
Mehomiya,
Bachevo,
Nevrokop,
Sveti Vrach, and
Novo Delchevo. == Demographics ==