Kato Kleines
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] The municipal unit has an area of 188.564 km2.[4] It is 7 km north of the city of Florina. The population was 2,735 in 2011.
Kato Kleines
Κάτω Κλεινές | |
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  Kato Kleines Location within the regional unit  | |
| Coordinates: 40°51′N 21°25′E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | West Macedonia |
| Regional unit | Florina |
| Municipality | Florina |
| • Municipal unit | 188.6 km2 (72.8 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 620 m (2,030 ft) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
| • Municipal unit | 2,735 |
| • Municipal unit density | 15/km2 (38/sq mi) |
| Community | |
| • Population | 394 (2011) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Vehicle registration | ΡΑ |
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.[5]
In 1845 the Russian slavist Victor Grigorovich recorded Kleshtina (Клештина) as mainly Bulgarian village.[6] Johann Georg von Hahn in his map from 1861 marked the village as Bulgarian, too.[7] Besides Slav-speaking population there were 150 Albanians in Kato Kleines in the end of 19th century.[8] According to the statistics of Geographers Dimitri Mishev and D. M. Brancoff, the village had a total Christian population of 504 in 1905, all Patriarchist Bulgarians.[9] It also had 1 Greek school.[9]
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
- "Απογραφή Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2011. ΜΟΝΙΜΟΣ Πληθυσμός" (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority.
- Name changes of settlements in Greece
- Kallikratis law Greece Ministry of Interior (in Greek)
- "Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)" (PDF) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-21.
- 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).
- Dimitri Mishev and D. M. Brancoff, La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne, p. 176