Sitaria ( el, Σιταριά, before 1926: Ρόσνα - ''Rosna'';

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/ mk, Росен / Росна, ''Rosen'' / ''Rosna'') is a village in the Florina regional unit, Western Macedonia,

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History

The village with the name "Rosna" is recorded since the 15th century. It was then Mustafa Hasuh's, Ibraim Ibraim's and Kasim Hamza's feud. During 19th century Rosna was a

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belonging to the Robev family of Ohrid and many workers according to the Austrian Johann Georg von Hahn in 1861 ''Rosen'' (or ''Rastna'' at the time) were

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. This was confirmed the book “Ethnographie des Vilayets d'Adrianople, de Monastir et de Salonique”, published in Constantinople in 1878, that reflects the statistics of the male population in 1873. ''Rossene'' was noted as a village with 45 households and 110 male

inhabitants. In 1905, Rosna's population consisted of 480

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. There was a Bulgarian school in the village.D.M.Brancoff. "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne". Paris, 1905, рр. 176-177.
A mosque in the village from the Ottoman period was turned into a small church dedicated to Saint George.

Pan-Macedonian Meeting

The local Cultural Club of Sitaria "Nei Orizondes" ''(New Horizons)'', organized for the 1st time in 2011, the Pan-Macedonian Meeting of

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Folklore Clubs. Since then, every summer musicians and dancers from all over Macedonia and abroad (including the Pan-Macedonian Association of United States) are gathered for three days in Sitaria, playing

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and dancing. It's the world's most important festival for Pro-Greek Macedonians.Nice moments from the 4th Pan-Macedonian Meeting in Sitaria
/ref> This government sponsored event was created to compete with a similar event held in the neighboring village of

Meliti Meliti ( el, Μελίτη, before 1926: Βοστεράνη - ''Vosterani''; bg, Овчарани or Вощарани, mk, Овчарани) is a village in the Florina regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece, 15 km northeast of the city ...

, which is organized every summer by the Slavic Macedonian minority.

References

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