Variko
Variko
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| Postal code | 500 05 |
Variko (
Dormition of Virgin
.
History
The village was first mentioned in an Ottoman
Francois Pouqueville noted Mocrena as one of the Bulgarian villages in the region.[5] The population of Mocreni was Bulgarian in 19th and early 20th centuries. The population of the village was under the supremacy of the Bulgarian Exarchate since 1891.[6]
The village was burned by the Turks during the
Ilinden Uprising.[7] There was a Bulgarian school in the village in the beginning of the 20th century.[8] After the Treaty of Bucharest in 1913, when the area became part of Greece, many people emigrated to Bulgaria
. The village was renamed Variko in 1926.
After the defeat of Greece by Nazi Germany in April 1941 in the village was formed a club of the Bulgaro-Macedonian Central Committee and in 1943 a detachment of the Bulgarian paramilitary organization Ohrana.[9] The village suffered greatly during the Greek Civil War, when many villagers emigrated abroad.
Notable persons
- Nikola Andreev, (1879 - 1911) - Bulgarian teacher and voivode[10]
- Nikola Milev, (1881-1925) - Bulgarian historian[11]
Demographics
According to the 2021 census, the population of Variko was 508 people.Slav Macedonians (around 11,7%).[12]
Literature
- "Мокрени (моето родно село)" A book by Anastas Simeonov, the son of the revolutionary Simeon Krstev Siin, about the history of Mokreni (his home village) - In Bulgarian. 1931
Notes
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ "ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities" (in Greek). Government Gazette.
- ^ "Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)" (PDF) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece.
- ISBN 2-283-60452-4.
- ^ Pouqueville, F.C.H.L. Travels in Epirus, Albania, Macedonia, and Thessaly, London 1820, p.88
- ^ Шопов, Атанас. Из живота и положението на българите във вилаетите, Пловдив, Търговска печатница, 1893, стр. 232 - 233.
- ^ Brailsford, Henri N. Macedonia: Its races and their future, London, 1906. p. 216, Rappoport Alfred. Au pays des martyrs. Notes et souvenirs d'un ancien Consul Général d'Autriche-Hongrie en Macédoine (1904-1909), Paris 1927; in Bulgarian - Рапопорт, Алфред. В страната на мъчениците, София 2002
- ^ D.M. Brancoff. La Macedoine et sa Population Chretienne. Paris, 1905, pp. 180-181.
- ^ Добрин Мичев. Българското национално дело в Югозападна Македония (1941 – 1944 г.)
- ^ Николов, Борис Й. Вътрешна Македоно-Одринска революционна организация. Войводи и ръководители. биографично-библиографски справочник. София 2001, с. 9 (Nikolov, Boris. Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Organization. Voivodes and Leaders. Biographical and Bibliographical Reference Book. Sofia 2001, p. 9).
- ^ Чолов, Петър. Български историци. Биографично-библиографски справочник. София 1999, с. 182 (Cholov, Petar. Bulgarian Historians, Biographical and Bibliographical Reference Book. Sofia 1999, p. 182); Марков, Георги. Покушения, насилие и политика в България 1878-1947. София 2003, c. 216-218 (Markov, Georgi. Attempts, Violence and Politics in Bulgaria 1878-1947. Sofia 2003, pp. 216-218).
- ethnic Macedonianminority in Greece.