Nestorio

The municipality Nestorio was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 4 former municipalities, that became municipal units:{{Cite web|url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL81-32jgAMSfbnMRVjyfnPUeJInJ48_97uHrMts-zFzeyCiBSQOpYnT00MHhcXFRTsb2fGphpq4MKX2ZkaHobySNnvZCNHXvYVvlf80XevW0Q.|title=ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities|language=el|publisher=Government Gazette}}

• Akrites
• Arrenes
• Gramos
• Nestorio

The municipality has an area of 616.072 km², the municipal unit 336.326 km².{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf|publisher=National Statistical Service of Greece|title=Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)|language=el}}

The municipal unit of Nestorio is divided into the following communities:

• Kypseli
• Kotyli (Nea Kotyli)
• Nestorio (Agia Anna, Giannochori, Livadotopi, Monopylo, Nestorio, Pefkos, Stena, Trilofos)
• Ptelea (Kato Ptelea, Kranochori, Ptelea)

The area was ruled by the Ottoman Empire until the Balkan Wars of 1912–13, in the late 19th and early 20th century as part of Manastir Vilayet. The population of Nestram consisted of an older local Slavic speaking population and a small Aromanian population that originated from the nearby village of {{ill|Linotopi|bg|Линотопи|el|Λινοτόπι Καστοριάς|mk|Линотопи|sq|Linatopi}} on the Gramos mountains that were later assimilated by the Slavonic villagers. At the beginning of the twentieth century, in Nestram there were 16 Aromanian speaking families and 455 Slavic speaking families.{{cite book|last=Koukoudis|first=Asterios|title=The Vlachs: Metropolis and Diaspora|year=2003|location=Thessaloniki|publisher=Zitros Publications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=01JoAAAAMAAJ&q=Nestrami|isbn=9789607760869|pages=334, 383}} Nestram had 2,700 inhabitants in the beginning of the 20th century and most of them were Slavophone (Slavic speaking) Orthodox Christians and a few of them Aromanians. In the early 20th century the majority of the inhabitants of Nestram accepted the rule of the Bulgarian Exarchate. According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov (Macedonia. Ethnography and Statistics) the inhabitants of Nestram in 1900 were Bulgarians.Васил Кънчов. „Македония. Етнография и статистика“. София, 1900, c. 266. (Kanchov, Vasil. Macedonia — ethnography and statistics, Sofia, 1900, p. 266. The population during the Turkish occupation exceeded 5200+ inhabitants.

Nestram, along with the rest of southern Macedonia, was incorporated into Greece in 1913 following the Balkan Wars. The village was known as Nestrami ({{langx|el|Νεστράμι}}) until 1926 when it was renamed as Agios Nestor ({{langx|el|Άγιος Νέστωρ}}).{{Cite web|author=Institute for Neohellenic Research|title=Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Nestrami – Agios Nestor|url=http://pandektis.ekt.gr/dspace/handle/10442/168975|website=Pandektis|access-date=19 September 2019}} In 1928, the village received its current Greek name Nestorion ({{langx|el|Νεστόριον}}).{{Cite web|author=Institute for Neohellenic Research|title=Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Agios Nestor – Nestorion|url=http://pandektis.ekt.gr/dspace/handle/10442/169324|website=Pandektis|access-date=19 September 2019}}

In 1945, Greek Foreign Minister Ioannis Politis ordered the compilation of demographic data regarding the Prefecture of Kastoria.{{harvnb|Alvanos|2005|p=518}}. The village Nestorio had a total of 2000 inhabitants, and was populated by 1300 Slavophones without a Bulgarian national consciousness.{{cite thesis|last=Alvanos|first=Raymondos|date=2005|title=Κοινωνικές συγκρούσεις και πολιτικές συμπεριφορές στην περιοχή της Καστοριάς (1922–1949)|trans-title=Social conflicts and political behaviors in the area of Kastoria (1922–1949)|type=Ph.D.|language=el|publisher=Aristotle University of Thessaloniki|url=https://www.didaktorika.gr/eadd/handle/10442/18991|access-date=16 June 2024|page=517}} "Νεστόριον, Πληθυσμός: 2000, Σλαυόφωνοι: 1300, Συνείδησις Βουλγαρική: όχι"

In the modern period, the village is Slavic speaking with a Greek orientation. Field work conducted recently showed only a rudimentary competence in Slavic among the village's inhabitants.{{cite journal|last=Rossini|first=Claudia|title=Graecophiles and Macedonophiles: Greek Macedonia's Slavic-Speakers, the Minority Identity Question and the Clash of Identities at Village Level|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qilpAAAAMAAJ&q=Nestorio+|journal=Jahrbücher für Geschichte und Kultur Südosteuropas 5|volume=5|year=2003|pages=181}}"the Slavic-speaking, but traditionally Greek orientated village of Nestorio (prefecture of Kastoria)"

The village holds an annual rock festival in late-July, called 'River Party'.{{Cite web|title=River Party|url=https://www.digitalkastoria.gr/en/culture-tourism-events-en/events-en/river-party-en|access-date=2021-08-14|website=www.digitalkastoria.gr|language=en}} River Party started in 1978. The bands come from the Greek rock scene, especially from Athens and Thessaloniki and with foreign guests, including from the wider region.{{Cite web|title=42o River Party Nestorio: Το Μεγαλύτερο Μουσικό-Κατασκηνωτικό Φεστιβάλ της χώρας|url=https://www.thessalonikiguide.gr/event/river-party-nestorio-festival/|access-date=2021-08-14|website=ThessalonikiGuide.gr|language=el}}

• Georgios Ntoutsis, revolutionary in Macedonian Revolution of 1878{{Cite web|title=History of Nestorio's region in short|url=https://dim-nestor.kas.sch.gr/images/pdf/HistoryOfNestorio.pdf|website=Primary School of Nestorio|language=el-gr}}
• Keraca Visulčeva, artist
• Paul Afkos, Greek–Australian businessman

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• [http://www.nestorio.gr/ Official Site of Nestorio] {{in lang|el}}
• [https://www.culturenow.gr/tag/river-party/ River Party] (in Greek)

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Category:Municipalities of Western Macedonia

Category:Populated places in Kastoria (regional unit)