Nestorio
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| Nestorio Νεστορίου |
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  Nestorio
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| Coordinates | 40°24′N 21°3′E / 40.4°N 21.05°ECoordinates: 40°24′N 21°3′E / 40.4°N 21.05°E |
| Government | |
| Country: | Greece |
| Periphery: | West Macedonia |
| Prefecture: | Kastoria |
| Population statistics (as of 2001[1]) | |
| City | |
| - Population: | 954 |
| Municipality | |
| - Population: | 1,214 |
| Other | |
| Time zone: | EET/EEST (UTC+2/3) |
| Elevation (min-max): | 900 - 1,700 m (2953 - 5577 ft) |
| Postal: | 520 51 |
| Auto: | AT |
Nestorio (Greek: Νεστόριο, Nestório, formerly Νεστόριον, Nestórion) is a municipality in the Kastoria Prefecture of Macedonia, Greece. Population 1,782 (2001). Nestorio is a small picturesque village 28 km southwestwards of Kastoria. It has numerous natural beauties and offers visitors the chance to have an endless party at the banks of Aliakmon river.
The village is particularly famous for its several days long annual late July, rock festival, River Party [1]. It started in 1978. Most people camp out on specially prepared grounds in the forest near the stage. The bands come from the Greek rock scene, especially from Athens and Thessaloniki and with foreign guests, including from the wider region. Visitors also participate in extreme games [2]
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[edit] History
The area was ruled by the Ottomans until the Balkan Wars of 1913. There was 2 700 inhabitants in Nestorio in the beginning of the twentieth century - most of them were Bulgarians[2]. Nestorio, along with the rest of southern Macedonia, was incorporated into Greece in 1913 following the Balkan Wars. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, many of its buildings were rebuilt. Following the post-WWII trend in the Greek countryside, many of its residents emigrated to the main cities of Greece, North America and Australia.
Electricity and automobiles arrived in the 1960s, it was linked with pavement in the late-20th century, television arrived in the 1970s. Internet and computers arrived in the late-1990s.
The area around Nestorio was struck by a fire in late-July 2007, its forests were quickly burnt and left several houses and other properties including cars burnt and destroyed. Fire trucks along with firefighters, helicopters and airplanes battled the fire and quickly stopped spreading outside the area of Nestorio and in the village. It lasted for several days and it affected Kypseli, Pefko and Trilofo area.
[edit] Geography
Its geography consists of farmlands in the area, forest and mountains elsewhere.
[edit] Population
| Year | Village population | Change | Municipal population | Change |
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| 1981 | 1,233 | - | - | - |
| 1991 | 1,158 | -75 or -6.08% | 1,928 | - |
| 2001 | 954 | -204 or -17.62% | 1,214 | - |
[edit] Bounding subdivision
- Gramos, west
[edit] Subdivisions
[edit] Municipal districts
- Kypseli
- Nea Kotyli (Kotyli)
- Ptelia
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Δείτε τη Διοικητική Διαίρεση" (in Greek). Hellenic Interior Ministry. www.ypes.gr. http://www.ypes.gr/UserFiles/f0ff9297-f516-40ff-a70e-eca84e2ec9b9/D_diairesi.xls. Retrieved 2009-09-09.
- ^ Васил Кънчов. „Македония. Етнография и статистика“. София, 1900, c. 266. (Kanchov, Vasil. Macedonia — ethnography and statistics, Sofia, 1900, p. 266.)
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