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Mileon
View on WikipediaMileon (Greek: Μηλεών, before 1926: Μέδοβον – Medovon,[2] between 1926 and 1949: Μηλιώνας – Milionas;[3] Macedonian: Медово, Medovo)[4] is a village in Florina Regional Unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. It is part of the community of Laimos.
Key Information
The toponym has its basis in the local culture of the village and is derived from med the Slavic word for honey, as the inhabitants had beehives for bees.[5] Some of the architecture of Mileon consists of houses built from bricks, many abandoned, in disrepair and covered in vegetation and others are stone houses.[6][7] Agriculture and livestock formed the village economy.[7] In the 1990s, the soils in the surrounding hills of Mileon had undergone extensive soil erosion, due to agricultural and grazing over use.[8]
The population of the village was 152 in 1920, 161 in 1928 and 209 in 1940.[6][9] In the period of the Greek Civil War, villagers were all Slavophones with a Macedonian national consciousness, some participated in the conflict due to hopes of an autonomous or independent Macedonia promised by Tito or the Greek communists.[6] Mileon suffered during the conflict and to avoid defeat, the inhabitants fled the village to Yugoslav Macedonia.[6] In 1951, the village was without inhabitants.[6] Following the civil war, only 8 Macedonian families lived in Mileon, the rest of the population were Greeks and Greek refugees.[4]
The village population numbered 27 in 1981 and 1 in 1991.[6][9] Mileon was deserted in the 1990s.[10][11] The population numbered 2 in 2011.[9] In the modern period, people with origins from inhabitants who fled Mileon visit in the summer.[6] The village population is small and in decline.[7] The last person from the old population of Mileon died in 2010.[6] Attracted to the local natural landscape, in the late 2010s the residents of Mileon were one retiree family and a young couple working in local environmental conservation.[6] In the mid 2020s, one family involved in ecotourism inhabits the village.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
- ^ Institute for Neohellenic Research. "Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Medovon – Milionas". Pandektis. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
- ^ Hellenic Agency for Local Development and Local Government. "Διοικητικές Μεταβολές των Οικισμών: Μέδοβον – Μηλιώνας – Μηλεών" [Administrative Changes of Settlements: Medovon – Milionas – Mileon]. EETAA (in Greek). Retrieved 26 March 2025.
- ^ a b Włodzimierz 1970, p.134. "Медово... (По револуцијата во селото останале само 20 куќи (8 фамили Македонци, другите се Грци и Маџири)."
- ^ Włodzimierz, Pianka (1970). Топономастиката на Охридско–Преспанскиот базен [The Toponymy of the Ohrid–Prespa basin] (in Macedonian). Institut za makedonski jazik "Krste Misirkov". p. 135. "Населението ова име го поврзува со зборот мед од пчели, бидејќи во селото има монгу косници за пчели. Името е културно."
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Tzimas, Stavros (26 June 2018). "Πρέσπες: Τα μυστικά μιας λίμνης που στέρεψε από κατοίκους" [Prespes: The secrets of a lake that dried up of inhabitants] (in Greek). Neos Kosmos. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
- ^ a b c Ntassiou 2022, p. 375. "Milionas, Population < 150 (in 2011 census): YES; Proportion gradual difference 2011–1981 (%): −93; Pre-existing in 1923: YES; Characterization: small and declining; Type of architecture: Brick-built houses and stonehouses; Assessment of economy type: agriculture, livestock"
- ^ Kosmas, C. S.; Danalatos, N. G.; Moustakas, N. K. (1997). "The soils". In Crivelli, Alain J.; Catsadorakis, George (eds.). Lake Prespa, Northwestern Greece: A Unique Balkan Wetland. Springer. p. 24. ISBN 9789401151801.
- ^ a b c Ntassiou, Konstantina (2022). "Studying abandoned settlements' renaissance in the context of rural geography: perspectives for Prespes, Greece". European Planning Studies. 30 (2): 368. Bibcode:2022EurPS..30..359N. doi:10.1080/09654313.2021.1957085. "Milionas; Census_2011: 2; Census_1981: 27; Census_1928: 161; Census_1940: 209; Census_1920: 152"
- ^ Catsadorakis, George; Malakou, M. (1997). "Conservation and management issues of Prespa National Park". In Crivelli, Alain J.; Catsadorakis, George (eds.). Lake Prespa, Northwestern Greece: A Unique Balkan Wetland. Springer. p. 178. ISBN 9789401151801.
- ^ Papadopoulos, Dimitris (2020). "Ruins of the Borderland: Ruin Affect, Aesthetics, and Otherness in the Prespa Lakes Region". Journal of Modern Greek Studies. 38 (2): 411. doi:10.1353/mgs.2020.0026.
- ^ Theriou, Bella (12 February 2024). "Μηλιώνας Πρεσπών: Ο Οικοτουρισμός στον άγνωστο "μικρό θησαυρό" της Φλώρινας" [Milionas Prespa: Ecotourism in the unknown "little treasure" of Florina] (in Greek). ERT. Retrieved 26 March 2025.