Kleidi Κλειδί | |
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  Kleidi | |
| Coordinates:40°45′N21°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, before 1926: Τσέροβον –Tserovon;[2]Bulgarian:Церово, Tserovo or Tzerovo) is a village in the municipality ofAmyntaio, in theFlorina regional unit ofWest Macedonia, Greece. TheBattle of Vevi (1941) was fought near here.
In 1845 the Russianslavist Victor Grigorovich recordedTsrevo as mainlyBulgarian village.[3]
In the book “Ethnographie des Vilayets d'Adrianople, de Monastir et de Salonique”, published inConstantinople in 1878, that reflects the statistics of the male population in 1873,Tzerovo was noted as a village with 30 households and 76 maleBulgarian inhabitants.[4] According to the statistics of geographer Dimitri Mishev (D. M. Brancoff), the village had a total Christian population of 400 in 1905, consisting of 200ExarchistBulgarians and 200Patriarchist Bulgarians (Grecomans).[5] It also had 2 schools, 1 Bulgarian and 1 Greek.[5]
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