Κleidi (, before 1926: Τσέροβον – Tserovon; ) is a village in the municipality of Amyntaio, in the Florina regional unit of West Macedonia, Greece. The Battle of Vevi (1941) was fought near here.
History In 1845 the Russian slavist Victor Grigorovich recorded Tsrevo as mainly Bulgarian village.Григорович, В. Очеркъ путешествiя по Европейской Турцiи, Москва, 1877 "...населено преимущественно Болгарами с примесью Валахов и Турков. Поименую села их: Владово, Острово, Кочено, Кадрево, Гугово, Русилово, Дружко, Ослово, Пачетин, Ниссие, Чегано, Крмско, Учин, Грамматиново, Ракита, Каменек, Баината, Орево, Жерве, Петерско у озера, Рошава, Пътеле, Суровичево, Гулинци, Любетино, Зеленич, Палиора, Дебрец, Невеска и Судир (в обоих сел. Влахи), Вербини, еще Вербини, Црево, Баньци, Забердин, Вуштарни, Крушораде, Ситина, Совиче, Добровина, Бачь, Куйнавите, Ромалия, Саново село, Секулево, Кальник, Клештина, Арминор, Кодорево, Клобучище, Арменско, Неволино, Лежини, Кучковини, Пешошница, Вартолом, Лесковец..."
In the book “Ethnographie des Vilayets d'Adrianople, de Monastir et de Salonique”, published in Constantinople in 1878, that reflects the statistics of the male population in 1873, Tzerovo was noted as a village with 30 households and 76 male Bulgarian inhabitants.Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г. Македонски научен институт, 1995. стр. 82-83. According to the statistics of geographer Dimitri Mishev (D. M. Brancoff), the village had a total Christian population of 400 in 1905, consisting of 200 Exarchist Bulgarians and 200 Patriarchist Bulgarians (Grecomans).Dimitri Mishev (D. M. Brancoff), La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne, p. 176 It also had 2 schools, 1 Bulgarian and 1 Greek.
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