Trigono, Florina
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Trigono | |
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Settlement | |
  Trigono | |
| Coordinates: 40°47′10″N 21°14′56″E / 40.78611°N 21.24889°E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | Western Macedonia |
| Regional unit | Florina |
| Municipality | Prespes |
| Municipal unit | Prespes |
| Community | Antartiko |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
• Total | 26 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Trigono (Greek: Τρίγωνο, before 1927: Όστιμα – Ostima,[2][3] Macedonian: Оштима, Oštima)[4] is a village in Florina Regional Unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. The village has an altitude of 980 m (3,220 ft).[5] It is part of the community of Antartiko.
Trigono is located in the Korestia area and situated in mountainous terrain.[6] The church of St. Nicholas is located in the village.[7] The architecture of Trigono consists of houses built from bricks.[8] The modern village economy is based on lumbering, agriculture and tourism.[8]
A Christian village, the inhabitants were members of the Bulgarian Exarchate.[9] Between 1912 and 1928, the village population was 420.[9] Reliant on agricultural activities and some remittances from immigrants abroad, the average yearly family income of the village in the late interwar period was 10,700 drachmas.[6]
The population of Trigono was 482 in 1940.[5][10] In the Greek Civil War, the village was occupied by the Democratic Army of Greece (DAG).[11] Trigono was part of a logistics supply route from Albania used by DAG during the civil war.[12] The village was bombed.[13] Aged 12 and under,[13] in early 1948 some 40 children at Trigono were escorted to Yugoslavia by the head of the village and their mothers who later went back to Greece.[14] In the late 1950s, several exiled children returned to the village from Eastern European countries.[13]
The population of Trigono, a Slavic Macedonian village was reduced by 88 percent due to the impacts of the Second World War and the civil war.[15][16] The inhabitants numbered 56 in 1951, 67 in 1961,[5] 27 in 1981 and 29 in 2011.[10] In the early 21st century Trigono is nearly abandoned.[9] Villagers are Dopioi ("locals") and also Macedonians.[13] The modern village population is small and in decline.[13][8] A large diaspora from the village resides in Toronto, Canada.[17] Some community members have participated in Greek patriotic celebrations in Canada.[17]