Kella ( el, Κέλλα, before 1926: Γκορνίτσοβον - ''Gkornitsovon'';

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/ Macedonian: Горничево, ''Gorničevo'' or ''Gornichevo'') is a village in the

Amyntaio Amyntaio ( el, Αμύνταιο, before 1928: Σόροβιτς - ''Sorovits''; Bulgarian/ Macedonian: Суровичево, Сорович), is a town and municipality in the Florina regional unit of Macedonia, Greece. The population of Amyntaio p ...

municipality of the Florina regional unit,

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History

The village was first mentioned in an Ottoman

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of 1468, where it is listed under the name of ''Gorničevo'' and described as a small settlement of thirty households. A second defter of 1481 records that the number had increased by only three households. Around 1840, the land of the village was forcibly seized by the Muslim notable Ilyaz Pasha and it was turned into a homestead. Later, the local residents were able to redeem their property. In the book “Ethnographie des Vilayets d'Adrianople, de Monastir et de Salonique”, published in

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in 1878, that reflects the statistics of the male population in 1873, ''Gornitchévo'' was noted as a village with 160 households, 522

and 50

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inhabitants.Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г. Македонски научен институт, 1995. стр. 82-83. Kella had 877 inhabitants in 1981. In fieldwork done by Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Kella was populated by Slavophones. The

Macedonian language Macedonian (; , , ) is an Eastern South Slavic language. It is part of the Indo-European language family, and is one of the Slavic languages, which are part of a larger Balto-Slavic branch. Spoken as a first language by around two million ...

was used by people of all ages, both in public and private settings, and as the main language for interpersonal relationships. Some elderly villagers had little knowledge of Greek. Table 3: Kelli, 877; S, M1; S = Slavophones, M = macédonien"

Notes

Populated places in Florina (regional unit) Amyntaio {{WMacedonia-geo-stub