The total land area of the village Platy is 712 hectares, with a majority as grasslands and for agricultural use, followed by forest, inland marshes and waters under its jurisdiction.[7] Some of the architecture of Platy consists of old stone houses.[8] The modern village economy is based on agriculture and livestock.[8] The main agricultural crop grown in the village arebeans.[9] The soils in the surrounding hills of Platy have undergone extensive soil erosion, due to agricultural and grazing over use.[10] In Platy, nests made bystorks are at the highest elevation in all Greece, at 907 m (2,976 ft).[11]
The name of the village is derived from the Slavic wordŠtrk for stork and the suffixovo.[5] The church of St. Nicholas was built in 1591.[12] A Christian village, the inhabitants were members of theBulgarian Exarchate.[3] DuringWorld War I, Sterkovo hosted refugees from the nearby village of Opaya, while high rates ofmalaria were present due to the effects of conflict.[13] The population of the village was 215 in 1920, 253 in 1928 and 268 in 1940.[6][14]
^abWłodzimierz, Pianka (1970).Топономастиката на Охридско–Преспанскиот базен [The Toponymy of the Ohrid–Prespa basin] (in Macedonian). Institut za makedonski jazik "Krste Misirkov". p. 135. "Штрково... Името е одразувано со суф. -ово од апелативот стрк (= штрк, спор. ст. сл. стъркъ)."
^Ntassiou 2022, p. 374. "Platy; Forest: 124, Agriculture: 247, Grasslands: 268, Inland Marshes: 51, Water bodies: 22, Total area (ha): 712."
^abcNtassiou 2022, p. 375. "Platy, Population < 150 (in 2011 census): YES; Proportion gradual difference 2011–1981 (%): 9; Pre-existing in 1923: YES; Characterization: small and declining; Type of architecture: sporadically stone houses; Assessment of economy type: agriculture, livestock"
^Kosmas, C. S.; Danalatos, N. G.; Moustakas, N. K. (1997)."The soils". In Crivelli, Alain J.; Catsadorakis, George (eds.).Lake Prespa, Northwestern Greece: A Unique Balkan Wetland. Springer. p. 24.ISBN9789401151801.
