Administrative Region : West Macedonia
Regional unit : Kastoria
Melissotopos (Μελισσότοπος) Kastoria
Melissotopos is a settlement in Western Macedonia in the Regional Unit of Kastoria.[2][3]
General information
Melissotopos is located on the eastern border with the Regional Unit of Florina, between Xiropotamos and Mount Varos at an altitude of 740 meters.[2] The village is approximately 23 km. E.-NE. from Kastoria and 55 km. SW. from Amyntaio. The parish church of the village is called Agios Athanasios.[4]
Northwest of the village is the Monastery of Agioi Anargyroi, whose abbot Grigorios was executed in 1822 by the Ottomans, after treason, as the initiator of the uprising in the area during the Greek Revolution of 1821[5].
Its old name is Holista and this is how it is mentioned in 1918 in the Government Gazette 259A - 29/12/1918 to be designated as the seat of the newly founded community of the same name. In 1927 it was renamed Melissotopos.[6] Administratively, according to the Kallikratis plan, together with the Monastery of Agion Anargyroi and Stavropotamos, they constitute the community of Melissotopos which falls under the Municipal Unit of Agion Anargyroi of the Municipality of Kastoria, while according to the 2011 census the village had a population of 172 inhabitants.[7]
See also
Monastery of Agion Anargyroi Melissotopos, Kastoria
References
As published in the 1971 population and housing census volume, table 4, Weighted average of the elevations of each municipality or community, p. 441.
Encyclopedia Papyrus Larousse Britannica. 41. Papyrus Publishing House. 1996. p. 235.
Encyclopedia Nea Domii. 18. Athens: Tegopoulos - Maniateas. 1996. p. 396.
«03 – Archdiocese of Korissos – Holy Metropolis of Kastoria». Retrieved on 8 May 2024.
Pantelis Tsamisis, "Kastoria and its monuments", Publications: I. L. Alevropoulos, Athens, 1949, pp. 41, 43, 44.
«Melissotopos Kastoria». Administrative changes of local governments. Hellenic Society for Local Development and Self-Government. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
"Official Gazette of the results of the PERMANENT population", p. 10553 (p. 79 of the pdf)
| Municipal unit Agioi Anargyroi |
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| Community Vasileiada |
| Αγία Παρασκευή, η |
| Vasileiada (Βασιλειάς, η) |
| Verga (Βέργα, η) |
| Community Korisos |
| Άγιος Νικόλαος, ο |
| Korisos (Κορησός, η) |
| Community Lithia |
| Lithia (Λιθιά, η) |
| Community Melissotopos |
| Melissotopos (Μελισσότοπος, ο) |
| Μονή Αγίων Αναργύρων, η |
| Stavropotamos (Σταυροπόταμος, ο) |
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