Kleidi, Florina

Community in Greece

Kleidi Κλειδί
Community
40°45′N 21°38′E / 40.75°N 21.64°E / 40.75; 21.64
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)

Κleidi (Greek: Κλειδί, 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.

History

In 1845 the Russian slavist Victor Grigorovich recorded Tsrevo as mainly Bulgarian village.^[2]

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.^[3] According to the statistics of Geographers Dimitri Mishev and D. M. Brancoff, the village had a total Christian population of 400 in 1905, consisting of 200 Exarchist Bulgarians and 200 Patriarchist Bulgarians (Grecomans).^[4] It also had 2 schools, 1 Bulgarian and 1 Greek.^[4]

References

^ "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
^ Григорович, В. Очеркъ путешествiя по Европейской Турцiи, Москва, 1877 "...населено преимущественно Болгарами с примесью Валахов и Турков. Поименую села их: Владово, Острово, Кочено, Кадрево, Гугово, Русилово, Дружко, Ослово, Пачетин, Ниссие, Чегано, Крмско, Учин, Грамматиново, Ракита, Каменек, Баината, Орево, Жерве, Петерско у озера, Рошава, Пътеле, Суровичево, Гулинци, [93] Любетино, Зеленич, Палиора, Дебрец, Невеска и Судир (в обоих сел. Влахи), Вербини, еще Вербини, Црево, Баньци, Забердин, Вуштарни, Крушораде, Ситина, Совиче, Добровина, Бачь, Куйнавите, Ромалия, Саново село, Секулево, Кальник, Клештина, Арминор, Кодорево, Клобучище, Арменско, Неволино, Лежини, Кучковини, Пешошница, Вартолом, Лесковец..."
^ Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г. Македонски научен институт, 1995. стр. 82-83. (in Bulgarian)
^ ^a ^b Dimitri Mishev and D. M. Brancoff, La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne, p. 176