Kato Kleines
| Kato Kleines Κάτω Κλεινές |
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 Kato Kleines
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| Coordinates | 40°51′N 21°25′E / 40.85°N 21.417°ECoordinates: 40°51′N 21°25′E / 40.85°N 21.417°E |
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| Country: | Greece |
| Region: | West Macedonia |
| Regional unit: | Florina |
| Municipality: | Florina |
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| - Population: | 3,963 |
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| Time zone: | EET/EEST (UTC+2/3) |
| Auto: | ΡΑ |
Kato Kleines (Greek: Κάτω Κλεινές, 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.[1] It is 7 km north of the city of Florina. The population was 3,963 in 2001.
[edit] History
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.[2]
In 1845 the Russian slavist Victor Grigorovich recorded Kleshtina as mainly Bulgarian village.[3] Johann Georg von Hahn in his map from 1861 marked the village as Bulgarian, too.[4] Besides Slav-speaking population there were 150 Albanians in Kato Kleines in the end of 19th century.[5]
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 minucipality - Kato Kaliniki, Poliplatano, Mesokambos and in the new-founded Neos Kavkasos.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Kallikratis law Greece Ministry of Interior (Greek)
- ^ Kravari, Vassiliki (1989) (in French). Villes et villages de Macédoine occidentale. Réalités byzantines. 2. Paris: Editions P. Lethielleux. p. 281. ISBN 2283604524.
- ^ Григорович, В. Очеркъ 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).
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