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While more than 2,440 metal detectors, known as treasure hunting devices, have been sold in Greece in the past two years, the Athens government is claimed to have issued 126 treasure hunting licenses in the same period.
It is the treasure of Ali Pasha, which is the most widespread among the inhabitants of the city of Ioannina, famous for its silver work and which was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1913. On the other hand, according to the information that the inhabitants of the city of Kiato based on Ottoman documents from 1800, it is believed that there is a “treasure” worth 500 million dollars belonging to the Ottoman Empire in the region. Another Ottoman treasure that was expressed among the public was the Kamil Bey treasure, considered the richest in the Peloponnese in the last years of the Ottoman Empire. While many Greeks were scanning the area with a gold prospecting device, the treasure was not found despite excavations so far. Many people who are interested in treasure hunting also believe that Halkidiki Wound exists in the village of Holomonta. Residents of the village of Homonta are believed to hunt for gold in British lire from the civil war between 1944 and 1948. According to legend, Russian planes parachuted to aid the Greek Communists during the civil war, dropping boxes full of pounds sterling. Rumors of “Bulgarian treasures” are claimed to be quite common in the Sapçı district of Western Thrace, where the Turkish minority live heavily.
Crime of fugitive hunters in Thessaloniki
Police officers affiliated with the Department of Cultural Heritage and Antiquities of the Thessaloniki Police Department announced that they found that a 68-year-old person carried out illegal excavations at the archaeological site of the city of Serres. The authorities indicated that a 68-year-old person who was looking for an illegal treasure was arrested, and that in the search carried out in the house, 10 Hellenistic coins and more than one gold embroidered bowl from the time of the Ottoman Empire were seized. of the illegal excavator. Police teams affiliated with the Department of Cultural Heritage and Antiquities of the Thessaloniki Police Department announced that since December 2020, reports have been kept on 102 people searching for illegal treasures in the region and 45 people have been arrested.
