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Amyntaio
Amyntaio (, before 1928: Σόροβιτς – ''Sorovits''; Macedonian: Суровичево, Сорович), is a town and municipality in the Florina regional unit of Macedonia, Greece. The population of Amyntaio proper is 4,348, while that of the entire municipality is 14,169 (2021). The town is named after the ancient king of Macedon, and father of Philip II and grandfather of Alexander the Great, Amyntas III. History The village mosque was destroyed and located at the site of the present Municipal Centre building. The Church of St. Konstantinos and Helen was declared a hazard to public safety and demolished with tanks in the late twentieth century. Archaeological excavations On March 4, 2007, an unknown civilization around four lakes that lasted from 6000 BC to 60 BC has been uncovered in two important excavations of a Neolithic and an Iron Age settlement in the Amyntaio district of Florina, northern Greece. A 7,300-year-old home with a timber floor, remnants of food s ...
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Amyntaio Railway Station
The Amyntaio railway station () is the railway station of Amyntaio in West Macedonia, Greece. The station is located close to the center of the settlement, on the Thessaloniki–Bitola railway, from Thessaloniki, and is severed by Local services to Thessaloniki and Florina. It was servered by trains on the Kozani–Amyntaio railway, Kozani–Amyntaio line; however these have been suspended since 2009. History Opened in June 1894 as Sorovits railway station ) in what was then the Ottoman Empire at the completion of the Société du Chemin de Fer ottoman Salonique-Monastir, a branchline of the Chemins de fer Orientaux from Thessaloniki to Bitola. During this period, Northern Greece and the Balkans, southern Balkans where still under Ottoman Empire, Ottoman rule. Amyntaio was annexed by Kingdom of Greece, Greece on 18 October 1912 during the First Balkan War. On 17 October 1925 The Greek government purchased the Greek sections of the former Salonica Monastir railway, and the rai ...
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Thessaloniki–Bitola Railway
The railway from Thessaloniki to Bitola is a long railway line, that connects the port city Thessaloniki in Greece with Bitola in the Republic of North Macedonia, via Veroia, Edessa, Amyntaio and Florina. The line was opened in 1894 under the name "Société du Chemin de Fer ottoman Salonique-Monastir", when the area was part of the Ottoman Empire. The section between the international border and Bitola is not used anymore, and passenger services are restricted to the section between Thessaloniki and Florina. The easternmost section of the line, Platy–Thessaloniki, is part of the important connection towards Athens and Northern Greece. Course The eastern terminus of the Thessaloniki–Bitola railway is the New Railway Station, Thessaloniki. Leaving the Athens–Thessaloniki mainline at Platy, it runs alongside the Aliakmon River, through Alexandreia and then passes through to Veroia, Naousa, and Skydra, before climbing to Edessa and then, along the northern shore of Lake ...
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West Macedonia
Western Macedonia (, ) is one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece, consisting of the western part of Macedonia. Located in north-western Greece, it is divided into the regional units of Florina, Grevena, Kastoria, and Kozani. With a population of approximately 255,000 people, as of 2021, the region had one of the highest unemployment rates in the European Union. Geography The region of Western Macedonia is situated in north-western Greece, bordering with the regions of Central Macedonia (east), Thessaly (south), Epirus (west), and bounded to the north at the international borders of Greece with the Republic of North Macedonia ( Bitola, Resen and Novaci municipalities) and Albania (Korçë County). Although it covers a total surface of (7.2% of country's total), it has a total population of 283,689 inhabitants (2.6% of the country's total), thus it is a low-density populated region (30 per km2, as compared to the country's 81.96 per km2 average). This is mainl ...
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Florina (regional Unit)
Florina (, ''Perifereiakí Enótita Flórinas'') is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the modern regions of Greece, region of Western Macedonia, in the geographic regions of Greece, geographic region of Macedonia, Greece. Its capital is the town of Florina. The total population is around 45,000 (2021). Geography Florina borders the regional units of Pella (regional unit), Pella to the east, Kozani (regional unit), Kozani to the south and Kastoria (regional unit), Kastoriá to the southwest. At the Greek international borders, it is adjacent to Albania (Korçë County) to the west, North Macedonia (Bitola Municipality, Bitola and Resen Municipality, Resen municipalities) to the north and Lake Prespa to the northwest, where the two borders cross each other. Lake Vegoritida is situated in the east. Mountains in the regional unit include Verno (), Varnous () and Voras (). Administration As from 2011 the regional unit of Florina is subdivided into three municipal ...
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Nymfaio
Nymfaio (, before 1926: Νέβεσκα – ''Neveska''; ) is a village and a former Communities and Municipalities of Greece, community in Florina (regional unit), Florina regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. After the 2011 local government reform it became a member of the municipality Amyntaio. The municipal unit has an area of 28.209 km2. As of 2021 the village had a population of 63 residents. The village is protected by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture in order to preserve its architectural integrity. Name First mentioned in an Ottoman defter in 1481, the village, then known as ''Neveska'', had only six households. The name of the town in Aromanian language, Aromanian (Vlach) is ''Nevesca'' from the ancient Greek (Doric) ''νυφεοσσ''´, meaning ''snowy, snowclad''. Geography Nymfaio is a mountain village, situated at 1350 m elevation in the densely forested Verno mountains. It is 3 km north of Sklithro, Florina, Sklithro, 5 km west of Aetos, Florin ...
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Lechovo
Lechovo (), renamed as ''Iroiko'' () between 1955 and 1956, is a village and a former community in Florina regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Amyntaio, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 22.844 km2, and a population of 782 ( 2021 census). The village is set amongst the mountains of Northern Greece and the main road runs through the town's centre. There is a museum, a football pitch and an indoor handball stadium. Lechovo has stone architecture common to many northern villages, and has an old upper square and church bell tower. The population of the village was brought to the area by the Ottomans. Lehovo as a village became inhabited in the mid-eighteenth century and some of its villagers worked as master builders. "They praise, for example, its Albanian-speaking master builders from Lehovo (settled mid-18th century) Drosopigi (Belkameni) and Flambouro (Negovani)." In s ...
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Filotas
Filotas (, before 1927: Τσαλτζιλάρ – ''Tsaltzilar''; , ''Chaldzhievo'') is a village and a former municipality in Florina regional unit, West Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is a municipal unit of the municipality Amyntaio. The municipal unit has an area of 132.495 km2. Population 3,616 (2021). Demographics The 1920 Greek census recorded 2,137 people in the village, and 2,100 inhabitants were Muslim in 1923. Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, Greek refugee families in Tsaltzilar were from East Thrace (393), Asia Minor (60) and the Caucasus The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region spanning Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, comprising parts of Southern Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The Caucasus Mountains, i ... (106) in 1926. The 1928 Greek census recorded 1,893 village inhabitants. In 1928, the refugee families numbered 539 (2,188 people). Refer ...
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Aetos, Florina
Aetos (, also: Αϊτόζι, ''Aitozi''; , ''Aytos''; , ''Ajtos'') "Ajtos (Aetós)" is a village and a former municipality in Florina regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Amyntaio, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 134.092 km2. It is 18 km southeast of Florina. In 2021 it had a population of 2,239. The Greek name of the village Aetos is an animal based toponym derived from local wildlife present in the wider region.. The village has 4 churches dedicated each to either St. George, St. Paraskevi, St. Athanasius or the Archangel Michael. A bear sanctuary is located nearby in the forest above the village for rescued (dancing) bears held in captivity. The village celebrates the cultivation of local peppers with an annual Festival of Peppers held on September. The village originates in the 15th century. It is first mentioned in an Ottoman defter of 1481, where it is ...
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Variko
Variko (, before 1926: Μόκραινα – ''Mokraina''; Bulgarian/) is a village and a former community in Florina regional unit, West Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Amyntaio, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 21.877 km2. It is 27 km south-southeast of the city of Florina. The village's primary agricultural products are beans, corn, and wheat. There is an annual bean festival on August 15, coinciding with the Dormition of Virgin. History The village was first mentioned in an Ottoman defter of 1481, under the name of ''Mokreni'', and was described as having sixty-nine households. In the beginning of 19th century Francois Pouqueville noted ''Mocrena'' as one of the Bulgarian villages in the region. The population of Mocreni was Bulgarian in 19th and early 20th centuries. The population of the village was under the supremacy of the Bulgarian Exarchate since 1891. The villag ...
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Amyntas III Of Macedon
Amyntas III () was king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia from 393/2 to 388/7 BC and again from 387/6 to 370 BC. He was a member of the Argead dynasty through his father Arrhidaeus, a son of Amyntas, one of the sons of Alexander I. His most famous son is Philip II, father of Alexander the Great. Family Polygamy was used by Macedonian kings both before and after Amyntas to secure marriage alliances and produce enough heirs to offset losses from intra-dynastic conflict.Carney, Elizabeth (2000). ''Women and Monarchy in Macedonia''. University of Oklahoma Press, p.19. . Consequently, Amyntas took two wives: Eurydice and Gygaea. He first married Eurydice, daughter of Sirras and maternal granddaughter of the Lynkestian king Arrhabaeus, probably in a Macedonian effort to strengthen the alliance with both the Illyrians and Lynkestians or to detach the Lynkestians from their historical alliance with the Illyrians, after the Macedonian defeat by Illyrians or an Illyrian-Ly ...
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Lake Vegoritida
Lake Vegoritida (, ''Limni Vegoritida''), also historically referred to as Lake Ostrovo (, ''Limni Ostrovou''), is one of the largest natural lakes in northern Greece. Located in the region of Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia, it lies 6 km northeast of Amyntaio and 18 km west of Edessa, Greece, Edessa, at an elevation of 540 meters. The Voras Mountains provide a scenic backdrop to the north of the lake, which spans parts of the Florina (regional unit), Florina and Pella (regional unit), Pella regional units. Tourism and Hospitality Lake Vegoritida’s natural beauty and serene environment have made it a popular destination for eco-tourism and cultural tourism in Macedonia. The hospitality industry around the lake has grown with the presence of several family-owned businesses, which contribute to the local economy by offering lodging, dining, and recreational activities. See also * List of lakes in Greece * Ostrovo Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals during World War I Sour ...
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Philip II Of Macedon
Philip II of Macedon (; 382 BC – October 336 BC) was the king (''basileus'') of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia (ancient kingdom), Macedonia from 359 BC until his death in 336 BC. He was a member of the Argead dynasty, founders of the ancient kingdom, and the father of Alexander the Great. The Expansion of Macedonia under Philip II, rise of Macedon, including its conquest and political consolidation of most of Classical Greece during his reign, was achieved by his reformation of the Ancient Macedonian army, army (the establishment of the Macedonian phalanx that proved critical in securing victories on the battlefield), his extensive use of siege engines, and his use of effective diplomacy and marriage alliances. After defeating the Polis, Greek city-states of Classical Athens, Athens and Thebes, Greece, Thebes at the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC), Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC, Philip II led the effort to establish a federation of Greek states known as the League of Cor ...
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