Vavdos, which came when strangers heard the locals refer to the village according to the local dialect where the male article is phonologically identified with the feminine) is a settlement of the Municipality of Polygyros. It is a village built amphitheatrically on the slope of Mount Vigla at an altitude of 938 meters from the sea level. During the 2011 population census, 391 residents were found. In the central square of the village there is a huge plane tree, which is one of the largest in the prefecture, and in 1976 it was declared a preserved natural monument. In the village was also found the largest whitewhite deposit in Greece. For many years, mines have been operating. Due to the very good climate of the village, it has been a rehabilitation center for many years.
Its inhabitants are mainly engaged in agriculture, beekeeping, and many work in nearby whitewash mines. The largest white deposit in Greece was found in the village. Following the closure of the mine in the past decade, efforts are being made to reopen it.
In Vavdos one can meet traditional small houses, built amphitheatrically on the mountain slope, with the highest peak “Prophet Elias”, at an altitude of 1,050m, where is also the homonymous chapel with a unique view of the plain “And the coast of Chalkidiki. In the building of the kindergarten operates a folklore museum with exhibits from the everyday life of the inhabitants of the village of the previous century.
The name of the village is probably due to a Roman chancellor who settled in the area around the middle of the 3rd century AD. The oldest sources that confirm the existence of the village and its settlement date back to the 14th century. In the church temple, in the Temple of Vima, there is a marble pulpit with embossed representations. It seems to be a work of the 5th century AD. which was probably in an early Christian church. In 1821, the village was destroyed and burned by the Turks.
As one of the Manemohoria, it has experienced a great economic boom that was due to the silver and lead mines that existed in the wider area of Mantemohoria. The inhabitants of these villages extracted the Straton Mountain mainly from the Argyrolofos (silver) and lead for the sultan. The inhabitants of the Manemohoria, therefore, were miners and very good metallurgists. Apart from the other privileges, Mantemohorites also enjoyed a relative self-government (there was of course the Turkish aghast, but only overseeing them) and had made something like a federation run by the twelve beggars. Yet, even though the mines had been poor since the 19th century and their production was scarce, the Greeks continued to give silver to the sultan to enjoy the amazing tax and administrative paradise that their mumbai had and get out of their fields more treasures than those who built their galleries. Thus, the Manemohoria continued to grow and flourish not from mines but from fields, flocks, trade and small crafts (carpets, weavings, tiles etc.). The inhabitants of Vavdos participated in the revolution of 1821. Major fighters of the Revolution of 1821 were Raphael Vasilikos, Thomas Abraham Xinia, Avgerinos Abraham, Nicholas Dimitriou, Emmanuel Demetriou, as well as the chieftains Demetrios Argyriou, Pavlos Chalatis, Theologos Tourlakis and Avgerinos Karagiannis.
