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.