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Lechovo
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Lechovo (), renamed as Iroiko () between 1955 and 1956, is a village and a former community in Florina regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Amyntaio, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 22.844 km2, and a population of 782 (2021 census). The village is set amongst the mountains of Northern Greece and the main road runs through the town's centre. There is a museum, a football pitch and an indoor handball stadium. Lechovo has stone architecture common to many northern villages, and has a
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Place details
- Locality
- Λέχοβο
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Δυτικής Μακεδονίας
- Country
- Ελλάς
- Population
- 782
- Timezone
- Europe/Athens
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Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Lechovo
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Λέχοβο
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipal unit
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- DE Lechovou.svg
- Greek Dimos.map_caption
- Location within the regional unit
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Western Macedonia
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Florina
- Greek Dimos.municipality
- Amyntaio
- Greek Dimos.population
- 782
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.area
- 22.8
- Greek Dimos.elevation
- 900
- Greek Dimos.licence
- ΡΑ
- Greek Dimos.image_skyline
- Lechovo, Florina, Greece.jpg
- Greek Dimos.caption_skyline
- Lechovo
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Lechovo (), renamed as Iroiko () between 1955 and 1956, is a village and a former community in Florina regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Amyntaio, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 22.844 km2, and a population of 782 (2021 census). The village is set amongst the mountains of Northern Greece and the main road runs through the town's centre. There is a museum, a football pitch and an indoor handball stadium. Lechovo has stone architecture common to many northern villages, and has an old upper square and church bell tower.
The population of the village was brought to the area by the Ottomans. Lehovo as a village became inhabited in the mid-eighteenth century and some of its villagers worked as master builders. In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, Lechovo was populated by 750 Christian Albanians and 90 Aromanians. Lechovo, with its population of hellenised Albanians, participated extensively on the Greek side of the Macedonian Struggle in the late Ottoman period. Following the Young Turk Revolution, the Greek clergy's prominent position in places like Lechovo was contested by Aromanian and Albanian nationalists. During the population exchange between Greece and Turkey (1923), Lechovo's pro-Greek sentiments resulted in Greek authorities removing it from consideration as a resettlement destination in the Florina region for incoming Greek Anatolian refugees.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lechovo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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