Pixos
Sign in to savePyxos (, before 1928: Ράχωβα – Rachova, also Όροβον, Orovon; , Orovo) was a village in Florina Regional Unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. It was part of the community of Vrontero. The village was located near the Albanian border and had an altitude of .
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- Prespes Municipality
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Pyxos (, before 1928: Ράχωβα – Rachova, also Όροβον, Orovon; , Orovo) was a village in Florina Regional Unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. It was part of the community of Vrontero. The village was located near the Albanian border and had an altitude of .
==History== The name Orovo is derived from the Slavic word orev for walnut and the suffix ovo. During the Ottoman period, the village supported the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and its inhabitants participated as fighters in the Ilinden Uprising (1903). The village economy was based on agriculture, involving ploughing and threshing alongside other activities such as fishing, beekeeping, gardening or coal mining.
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