page_title: Vevi
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Vevi / History
caption_attribution_description: Български: Старото училище в Баница, Ном Лерин, Гърция. Deutsch: Alte Schule von Vevi in der Präfektur Florina in Griechenland Ελληνικά: Το παλιό σχολειό στο Βεύη της Φλώρινας English: Old school in Vevi in the Florina prefecture in Greece
context_page_description: Vevi is a village located in the municipal unit of Meliti in Florina regional unit, Macedonia, Greece. The village is passed by two national roads which lead to Thessaloniki, Florina, Amyntaio, and Kozani. Additionally, it has a railway station on the line between Florina and Thessaloniki.
context_section_description: The city dates back to Roman times. Archeological finds from this period, such as the marble torso of a male statue, are housed at the Archaeological Museum of Florina.
  The local church St. Nicolas was built and painted in 1460. There were 132 Christian households in the village in the first half of the 17th century. In 1845 the Russian slavist Victor Grigorovich recorded Banci as mainly Bulgarian village.
  According to local tradition, the settlers who laid the foundation of the modern village included various people from the region such as Greeks, Bulgarians, Turks, etc. There were two Bulgarian schools in the beginning of 20th century.
  In 1913, with the conditions of the Treaty of Bucharest, when this part of Macedonia became part of Greece, and after the Balkan Wars, a lot of locals emigrated to Bulgaria. The village was renamed Vevi in 1926. Following World War II as well as the Greek Civil War it saw more exodus on the part of the town's non-Greek inhabitants.
  A 1993 survey of the area found that much of the population over the age of 30 were Macedonian speakers.
caption: Old school in Vevi
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