Itea (Greek: Ιτέα, before 1926: Βύρμπενη – Vyrmpeni;[2] Macedonian: Врбени, romanized: Vrbeni; Bulgarian: Върбени or Долно Върбени, romanized: Varbeni or Dolno Vrbeni), is a village and a community of the Florina municipality.

[5] In 1845 the Russian slavist Victor Grigorovich recorded Verbini as Bulgarian village.

[7] In 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, Dolno Vrbeni was noted as a village with 200 households and 615 Bulgarian inhabitants.

[9] In 1925, 50 inhabitants of the village were arrested by Greek authorities for collaborating with VMRO in the November bombing incident in Florina.

In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Itea was populated by Slavophones.