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| '''Variko''' ({{lang-el|Βαρικό}}, ] and ]: Мокрени, ''Mokreni'') is a community in the ], ]. Population 698 (2001). The current president (known in the west as "mayor") is Parzinas Athanasios. Its main products are beans, corn, and wheat. The notoriety of its beans is so great that there is an annual bean festival on August 15th, coinciding with the holiday honoring the Virgin Mary. | '''Variko''' ({{lang-el|Βαρικό}}, ]: Мокрени, ''Mokreni'') is a community in the ], ]. Population 698 (2001). The current president (known in the west as "mayor") is Parzinas Athanasios. Its main products are beans, corn, and wheat. The notoriety of its beans is so great that there is an annual bean festival on August 15th, coinciding with the holiday honoring the Virgin Mary. | ||
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Variko (Template:Lang-el, Macedonian Slavic: Мокрени, Mokreni) is a community in the Florina Prefecture, Greece. Population 698 (2001). The current president (known in the west as "mayor") is Parzinas Athanasios. Its main products are beans, corn, and wheat. The notoriety of its beans is so great that there is an annual bean festival on August 15th, coinciding with the holiday honoring the Virgin Mary.
History
The population of Variko was Bulgarian in 19th and the in the beginning of 20th century . The village was burned by the Turks during the Ilinden Uprising. There was a Bulgarian school in the village in the beginning of 20th century.
In 1913, with the conditions of the Treaty of Bucharest, when this part of Macedonia became part of Greece, and after the Balkan Wars, a lot of people from Mokreni emmigrated to Bulgaria. The village was renamed Variko in 1926.
Notable persons
- Nikola Andreev, (1879 - 1911) - teacher and voivode
- Nikola Milev, (1881-1925) - historian and publicist
Notes
- Brailsford, Henri N. Macedonia: Its races and their future, London, 1906. p. 216
- D.M.Brancoff. "La Macedoine et sa Population Chretienne". Paris, 1905, p.180-181.
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40°32′N 21°30′E / 40.533°N 21.500°E / 40.533; 21.500
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