Administrative Region : West Macedonia
Regional unit : Kastoria
Kato Pteria (Κάτω Πτεριά) Kastoria
Kato Pteria is a mountainous village in the regional unit of Kastoria at an altitude of 740 meters[1].
Geography - History
Kato Pteria is located next to the border of Greece with Albania at a distance of 24 km. W. from Kastoria. To the north of the village there is the chapel of Zoodochos Pigi, every year five-day festivities are held and the Pontic custom of wrestling with a calf as a prize is revived[2]. It is mentioned as Kato Papatsko in 1918, after the liberation, in the Government Gazette 259A - 29/12/1918 to be annexed to the community of Papatsko which then belonged to the prefecture of Florina. In 1926, with the Government Gazette 413A - 22/11/1926, it was renamed Kato Fterias and in 1940 it was corrected to Kato Pteria[3]. According to the Kallikratis plan, together with Pteria and Akontio, it forms the local community of Pteria, which belongs to the municipal unit of Mesopotamia of the municipality of Nestorio and according to the 2011 census has a population of 24 residents[4].
External links
Photo from the Church of Zoodochos Pigi (Kato Pteria 1965) Archived 2020-08-07 at the Wayback Machine. - Kastoria Evening High School
References
Encyclopedia Nea Domi. Athens: Tegopoulos - Maniateas. 1996. p. 274 vol.16.
“Discovering my place and its treasures: Upper & Lower Pteria”. Inkastoria.gr. 16 January 2017. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
“Administrative Changes of Settlements”. EETAA. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
“Official Gazette of results of PERMANENT population Archived 2021-10-04 at the Wayback Machine.”, p. 10554 (p. 80 of pdf)
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