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Perdiki (
Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
: Περδίκη) is a small village in the northeastern corner of the Greek island of
Icaria Icaria, also spelled Ikaria ( el, Ικαρία), is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, 10 nautical miles (19 km) southwest of Samos. According to tradition, it derives its name from Icarus, the son of Daedalus in Greek mythology, who was be ...
. Perched up in the mountains, it houses fewer than 200 residentsPopulation census of 2011.
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in small houses tucked into the forests. Perdiki is one of the larger villages on Icaria, although its population is spread throughout a plateau. On the western side of the village, the church of Agia Matrona (meaning: Saint Matrona) stands watch over the village's cemetery, which has been used for hundreds of years.


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