Florina

Florina is a metropolis and municipality within the mountainous northwestern Macedonia, Greece. Its motto is, 'Where Greece starts. The city of Florina is the capital of the Florina nearby unit and additionally the seat of the eponymous municipality. It belongs to the executive vicinity of West Macedonia. The town's population is 17,686 humans 2011 census. It is in a wooded valley approximately 13 km south of the worldwide border of Greece with the Republic of Macedonia. Within the bounds of the prevailing-day town lie the remains of a Hellenistic agreement at the hill of Agios Panteleimon. Archaeologists excavated at the site in 1930-1934, but a lodge become later built over the ruins.

Excavations started out again within the Eighties and the overall excavated area is now around 8,000 metres square. The buildings uncovered are frequently residential blocks, and the range of unearths shows that the website online was continuously inhabited from the 4th century BC till its destruction through hearth inside the 1st century BC. Many of these reveals are now on show in the Archaeological Museum of Florina. The city is first noted in 1334, when the Serbian king Stefan Dusan set up a positive Sphrantzes Palaeologus as commander of the fortress of Chlerenon. By 1385, the place had fallen to the Ottomans. An Ottoman defter cadastral tax census for the year 1481 statistics a settlement of 243 families.