Lefkonas, Florina

Lefkonas (Greek: Λευκώνας, before 1926: Πόπλη – Popli)[2] is a village in the Florina Regional Unit in West Macedonia, Greece.

[3] The forms of the toponym rendered with о, а and ъ indicate they emerged from a *o sound and would have originally been either Poplje or Pop'li from the Slavic *pop- pupak meaning navel, centre.

[3] Pianka Włodzimierz writes that Poplje would be unlikely as the retention of l in this instance would not occur per the sound change norms of the Macedonian language.

[3] The toponym ending would have been replaced with a Turkish suffix lu, due to the importance of the village as a centre for Ottoman administration.

[5] Following the Greek-Turkish population exchange, the village mosque was demolished and the church of Michael the Archangel was built in its place.