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Variko (Template:Lang-el, Bulgarian and Slavic: Мокрени, Mokreni) is a village and a former community in Florina regional unit, West Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Amyntaio, of which it is a municipal unit. It is 27 km south-southeast of the city of Florina. The population in 2001 was 698. The village's primary agricultural products are beans, corn, and wheat. There is an annual bean festival on August 15, coinciding with the Dormition of Virgin.

History

The village was first mentioned in an Ottoman defter of 1481 and was described as having sixty-nine households. In the beginning of 19th century Francois Pouqueville noted Mocrena as one of the Bulgarian villages in the region.The population of the village was under the supremacy of the Bulgarian Exarchate since 1891.

The village was burned by the Turks during the minor 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.

Demographics

According to the 2001 census, the population of Variko was 698 people. Today, the village has a mixed population of Greeks and Slavs (around 8,0%).

Notes

1. De Facto Population of Greece Population and Housing Census of March 18th, 2001 (PDF 39 MB). National Statistical Service of Greece. 2003.
2. Kallikratis law Greece Ministry of Interior Template:El icon
3. Kravari, Vassiliki (1989). Villes et villages de Macédoine occidentale. Realites byzantines (in French). Vol. 2. Paris: Editions P. Lethielleux. p. 301. ISBN 2-283-60452-4.
4. Pouqueville, F.C.H.L. Travels in Epirus, Albania, Macedonia, and Thessaly, London 1820, p.88
5. Шопов, Атанас. Из живота и положението на българите във вилаетите, Пловдив, Търговска печатница, 1893, стр. 232 - 233.
6. Brailsford, Henri N. Macedonia: Its races and their future, London, 1906. p. 216, Rappoport Alfred. Au pays des martyrs. Notes et souvenirs d'un ancien Consul Général d'Autriche-Hongrie en Macédoine (1904-1909), Paris 1927; in Bulgarian - Рапопорт, Алфред. В страната на мъчениците, София 2002
7. D.M. Brancoff. La Macedoine et sa Population Chretienne. Paris, 1905, pp. 180-181.
8. http://www.statistics.gr/gr_tables/S1101_SAP_1_TB_DC_01_03_Y.pdf
9. In the 2009 European elections in Greece, unfortonately, 52 people from Variko voted for the Rainbow Party, which represents the fake ethnic Macedonian minority in Greece.

• Populated places in Florina (regional unit)