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Variko (Template:Lang-el, local Slavic: Мокрени, Mokreni) is a village in Florina Prefecture, Greece, 27km south-southeast of the city of Florina. The population in 2001 was 698.

History

First mentioned in an Ottoman defter of 1481, the village, then known as Mokreni, had sixty-nine households. The population was Bulgarian in 19th and early 20th centuries. 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.

After the Treaty of Bucharest in 1913, when the area became part of Greece, many people emigrated to Bulgaria. The village was renamed Variko in 1926.

The village's primary agricultural products are beans, corn, and wheat. There is an annual bean festival on August 15th, coinciding with the Dormition of Virgin.

Notable persons

• Nikola Andreev, (1879 - 1911) - Bulgarian teacher and voivodeTemplate:Wtf
• Nikola Milev, (1881-1925) - Bulgarian historian

Notes

1. Kravari, Vassiliki (1989). Ville et villages de Macédoine occidentale. Realites byzantines (in French). Vol. 2. Paris: Editions P. Lethielleux. p. 301. ISBN 2283604524.
2. Brailsford, Henri N. Macedonia: Its races and their future, London, 1906. p. 216
3. D.M.Brancoff. "La Macedoine et sa Population Chretienne". Paris, 1905, p.180-181.

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