Kella, Florina

Kella (Greek: Κέλλα, before 1926: Γκορνίτσοβον – Gkornitsovon;[2] Bulgarian/Macedonian: Горничево, Gorničevo or Gornichevo) is a village in the Amyntaio municipality of the Florina regional unit, Greece.

[3] The village was first mentioned in an Ottoman defter of 1468, where it is listed under the name of Gorničevo and described as a small settlement of thirty households.

[4] Around 1840, the land of the village was forcibly seized by the Muslim notable Ilyaz Pasha and it was turned into a homestead.

[6] Following the Greek Civil War (1946–1949), the population decreased and 3–4 hundred families remained in the village.

[8] In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Kella was populated by Slavophones.