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Nestorio (Greek: Νεστόριο, Nestório; Macedonian: Нестрам and Bulgarian: Нестрам, Nestram or Нѐсрам, Nésram) [3] [4] [5] is a village and a municipality in the Kastoria regional unit of Western Macedonia, Greece. Nestorio is approximately 28 km (17 mi) southwest of Kastoria, at the banks of the river Aliakmon.
Mavrochori (Greek: Μαυροχώρι(οv), meaning "black village"; before 1928: Μαύροβον – Mavrovon) [2] is a village on the shores of Lake Orestiada in Kastoria regional unit of Macedonia, Greece. [3] Today Mavrochori is a tourist destination for a quiet vacation near the lake of Kastoria. [4]
Kastoria (Greek: Καστοριά, Kastoriá [kastoˈrʝa]) is a city in northern Greece in the region of Western Macedonia. It is the capital of Kastoria regional unit, in the geographic region of Macedonia. It is situated on a promontory on the western shore of Lake Orestiada, in a valley surrounded by limestone mountains.
The following is a list of the most extreme temperatures ever recorded in Greece. Greece has recorded a high temperature of 48.0 °C in Elefsina and Tatoi (both located in the Athens metropolitan area). In June 2007, Monemvasia in mainland Greece recorded a minimum temperature of 35.9 °C. [1] [2] [3]
Pentavryso (Greek: Πεντάβρυσο, before 1928: Ζελιγκόσδη – Zeligkosdi) [2] [3] is a village in Kastoria Municipality, in Kastoria regional unit of Macedonia, Greece. [4] The village centre is on an altitude of 790 m. Pentavryso is sprawling from the northern slopes of a range of green and sandy hills of the Tsemna range (900 m).
In 1945, Greek Foreign Minister Ioannis Politis ordered the compilation of demographic data regarding the Prefecture of Kastoria. [4] The village Gavros had a total of 355 inhabitants, and was populated by 340 Slavophones with a Bulgarian national consciousness. [5] The inhabitants spoke the Dolna Korèshcha variant of the Kostur dialect. [6]
The Metropolis of Kastoria (Greek: Ιερά Μητρόπολις Καστοριάς) is one of the metropolises of the New Lands in Greece that are within the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople but de facto are administered for practical reasons as part of the Church of Greece under an agreement between the churches of Athens and Constantinople.