{"id":26272,"count":1,"description":"Servia (Greek: \u03a3\u03ad\u03c1\u03b2\u03b9\u03b1) is a town and was a former municipality in Kozani peripheral unit, West Macedonia, Greece. Since the local government reform of 2011, it is now part of the larger municipality of Servia-Velventos. Servia today forms a municipal unit and is seat of the municipality. \u03a4he town itself has a population of 3,290 people (2001).\nIts name derives from the Latin verb servo, meaning \"to watch over\" and it was given by the Romans, approximately during the 2nd century A.D., replacing what is thought to be the ancient name of the town \"Phylacae\" (Greek: \u03a6\u03c5\u03bb\u03b1\u03ba\u03b1\u03af) from the Greek verb '\u03c6\u03c5\u03bb\u03ac\u03c3\u03c3\u03c9'. The ancient name of the town of Servia is also mentioned by Roman writer Pliny the Elder as well as on an ancient Greek inscription found at the city of Veroia which reads: \"\u03a0\u03b1\u03c1\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03af\u03c9\u03bd \u0393\u03bb\u03b1\u03c5\u03ba\u03af\u03b1 \u03a6\u03c5\u03bb\u03b1\u03ba\u03ae\u03c3\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2 \u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03b7\u03c4\u03ae\u03c2 \u03b5\u03bd \u0394\u03bf\u03bb\u03af\u03c7\u03c9\", i.e. 'Parmenion son of Glauceas from Phylacae winner at Doliche'.\nDuring ancient times, Servia served as a fort for the passage-way between Macedonia and Thessaly,...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/servia\/","name":"Servia","slug":"servia","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/26272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=26272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}