Sklithro, Florina
village in Florina, Greece
Sklithro (Greek: Σκλήθρο, before 1927: Ζέλενιτς – Zelenits; Bulgarian and Macedonian: Зеленѝче, Zelenìche) is a small village located about 40 kilometres southwest of Florina, the capital of Florina regional unit in northwestern Greece. It is situated in a valley at the foot of the Vitsi mountain range halfway along the Amyntaio – Kastoria local road.
Sklithro is currently inhabited by 420 permanent residents (2021 census).
History
In 1845 the Russian slavist Victor Grigorovich recorded Zelenich as mainly Bulgarian village.
At its peak in the first part of the twentieth century, the population of the village had reached about 3,500 inhabitants. There were two Bulgarian and one Greek school in the village in the beginning of 20th century.
The 1920 Greek census recorded 2,219 people in the village and in 1923 there were 1,100 inhabitants (or 170 families) who were Muslim. Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, Greek refugee families in Zelenits were from East Thrace (23), Asia Minor (53), the Caucasus (10) and three others from an unidentified location in 1926. The 1928 Greek census recorded 1,347 village inhabitants. In 1928, the refugee families numbered 87 (379 people).
“Sklithro, Florina” enters the record as village in Florina, Greece. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sklithro, Florina and village can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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