Kato Kleines
Kato Kleines Κάτω Κλεινές | |
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Coordinates: 40°51′N 21°25′E / 40.850°N 21.417°ECoordinates: 40°51′N 21°25′E / 40.850°N 21.417°E | |
Country | Greece |
Administrative region | West Macedonia |
Regional unit | Florina |
Municipality | Florina |
Population (2011)[1] | |
• Municipal unit | 2,735 |
Community[1] | |
• Population | 394 (2011) |
Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
• Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
Vehicle registration | ΡΑ |
Kato Kleines (Greek: Κάτω Κλεινές, before 1926: Κάτω Κλέστινα - Kato Klestina,[2] Bulgarian and Macedonian Slavic: Долно Клештино, Dolno Kleštino) is a village and a former municipality in Florina regional unit, West Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Florina, of which it is a municipal unit.[3] It is 7 km north of the city of Florina. The population was 2,735 in 2011.
History
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The village was first mentioned in an Ottoman defter of 1468, where it is listed under the name of Kleshtino and described as having ninety-seven households. In 1481, the village possessed two hundred and thirteen households, a church, mills, and a kiln. The Turkish documents suggest a prosperous place, noting the production of vines, walnuts, onions, garlic, cabbage, peas, flax, honey, pigs, and silkworms.[4]
In 1845 the Russian slavist Victor Grigorovich recorded Kleshtina (Клештина) as mainly Bulgarian village.[5] Johann Georg von Hahn in his map from 1861 marked the village as Bulgarian, too.[6] Besides Slav-speaking population there were 150 Albanians in Kato Kleines in the end of 19th century.[7]
After Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) and Population exchange between Greece and Turkey a number of Pontic Greeks were settled in the village of Kato Kleines and in some other villages in the municipality - Kato Kalliniki, Polyplatano, Mesokampos and in the new-founded Neos Kafkasos.
Notes
- 1 2 "Απογραφή Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2011. ΜΟΝΙΜΟΣ Πληθυσμός" (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority.
- ↑ Name changes of settlements in Greece
- ↑ Kallikratis law Greece Ministry of Interior (Greek)
- ↑ Kravari, Vassiliki (1989). Villes et villages de Macédoine occidentale. Réalités byzantines (in French). 2. Paris: Editions P. Lethielleux. p. 281. ISBN 2-283-60452-4.
- ↑ Григорович, В. Очерки путешествiя по Европейской Турцiи, Москва, 1877
- ↑ Croquis der westlischen Zurflüsse des oberen Wardar von J.G. von Hahn. Deukschriften der k Akad. d wissenseh. philos. histor. CIX1Bd, 1861.
- ↑ Васил Кънчов. „Македония. Етнография и статистика“. София, 1900, стр.249 (Kanchov, Vasil. Macedonia — ethnography and statistics Sofia, 1900, p. 249).