Kleidi, Florina
Community in Greece
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Κleidi (Greek: Κλειδί, before 1926: Τσέροβον – Tserovon;[2] Bulgarian: Церово, Tserovo or Tzerovo) is a village in the municipality of Amyntaio, in the Florina regional unit of West Macedonia, Greece. The Battle of Vevi (1941) was fought near here.
Kleidi
Κλειδί | |
|---|---|
  Kleidi | |
| Coordinates: 40°45′N 21°38′E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | Western Macedonia |
| Regional unit | Florina |
| Municipality | Amyntaio |
| Municipal unit | Amyntaio |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
• Community | 13 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
History
In 1845 the Russian slavist Victor Grigorovich recorded Tsrevo as mainly Bulgarian village.[3]
In the book “Ethnographie des Vilayets d'Adrianople, de Monastir et de Salonique”, published in Constantinople in 1878, that reflects the statistics of the male population in 1873, Tzerovo was noted as a village with 30 households and 76 male Bulgarian inhabitants.[4] According to the statistics of geographer Dimitri Mishev (D. M. Brancoff), the village had a total Christian population of 400 in 1905, consisting of 200 Exarchist Bulgarians and 200 Patriarchist Bulgarians (Grecomans).[5] It also had 2 schools, 1 Bulgarian and 1 Greek.[5]
