Akrites ( el, Ακρίτες) is a municipal unit of Nestorio Municipality in
Kastoria regional unit,
Western Macedonia
Western Macedonia ( el, Δυτική Μακεδονία, translit=Ditikí Makedonía, ) is one of the thirteen Modern regions of Greece, regions of Greece, consisting of the western part of Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia. Located in north-western ...
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Greece
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The municipal unit has an area of 85.724 km
2 with a population of 669 inhabitants according to
Greek census in 2011.
Settlements
The settlements of the municipal unit are:
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Chionato
Chionato ( el, Χιονάτο, before 1928: Γκέρλιανη – ''Gkerliani'') is a village in Kastoria Regional Unit, Macedonia, Greece. Administratively it belongs to the Akrites Municipal Unit of Nestorio Municipality in Western Macedonia ...
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Dipotamia
Dipotamia ( el, Διποταμία, before 1927: Ρέβανη – ''Revani''; sq, Revan) is a village and a community in Kastoria Regional Unit, Macedonia, Greece. The community includes the villages Kali Vrysi and Mesovracho.
Revani was popu ...
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Kali Vrysi
Kali (; sa, काली, ), also referred to as Mahakali, Bhadrakali, and Kalika ( sa, कालिका), is a Hinduism, Hindu goddess who is considered to be the goddess of ultimate power, time, destruction and change in Shaktism. In t ...
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Komninades
Komninades ( el, Κομνηνάδες, before 1927: Σιάκι – ''Siaki''; sq, Shag) is a village in Kastoria Regional Unit, Western Macedonia, Greece.
Siaki was populated by Albanian speaking Muslim inhabitants and they used to intermarr ...
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Mesovracho
Mesovracho ( el, Μεσόβραχο, before 1927: Ζέλεγκραδ – ''Zelegkrad'') is a village in Kastoria Regional Unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. It is part of the community of Dipotamia.
The Greek census (1920) recorded 260 people i ...
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Polyanemo
Polyanemo ( el, Πολυάνεμο, before 1926: Κόρτσιστα – ''Kortsista'') is a village in the Kastoria region, Macedonia, Greece
Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe ...
Notable people
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Symeon Kortsalis
Simeon () is a given name, from the Hebrew (Biblical ''Šimʿon'', Tiberian ''Šimʿôn''), usually transliterated as Shimon. In Greek it is written Συμεών, hence the Latinized spelling Symeon.
Meaning
The name is derived from Simeon, son ...
, Greek revolutionary from Polyanemo who participated in
Greek revolution of 1821
The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1829. The Greeks were later assisted by ...
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Christina Giazitzidou
Christina Giazitzidou ( el, Χριστίνα Γιαζιτζίδου; born 12 October 1989) is a Greek rower. She won the bronze medal (along with Alexandra Tsiavou) at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, in the Women's lightweight double scull ...
, Greek rower, originally from Chionato, who won a bronze medal at the
2012 Summer Olympics in London
External links
Kastoria to Dipotamia: Bouzouki eveningo
greekhiking.com
References
Populated places in Kastoria (regional unit)
Former municipalities in Western Macedonia
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