Alona, Greece

Alona (Greek: Άλωνα, before 1927: Αρμένσκον – Armenskon;[2] Bulgarian & Macedonian: Арменско‎) is a mountainous village in the region of Florina, northern Greece.

In the Ottoman tax registers of the non-Muslim population from 1626 to 1627, the village was recorded under the name Ermencheva with 53 Christian households.

[4] Even until 1940, according to the EAM member Pavlos Koufis, the inhabitants of the village continued to be predominantly Slavophone,[5] with the exception of some Grecophone Sarakatsani families.

In September 1905, approximately 20 Macedonian fighters led by chieftains Pavlos Kyrou and Stefanos Grigoriou entered the village, killing 2 armed men who were assosicated with IMRO.

[13] With the end of the Civil War, the defeated rebels fled to the socialist countries, and in the following decades there was a wave of immigration to the United States, Australia and Canada, resulting in the dramatical decrease of the permanent population of the village.

The chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle Simos Ioannidis who was born in the village (sitting)