Nestled in the mountains to the west of Florina at an altitude of 1047 metres, the village has suffered from a long decline in population and influence.

[8] The second church in the village, St. Atanas, was built under the initiative of the local benefactor and the activist of the Bulgarian Revival Movement Pavle Yankov in 1880s, but the Greek Bishop of Kastoria refused to sanctify it because of Slavic inscriptions.

Several weeks after the Young Turk Revolution the first Exarchate priest, local resident Ivan Trayanov, started his work in Zhelevo.

Here, under the eye of a man sitting lazily, cigarette in mouth, young and old fight corn cobs packed with a vengeance.

Whether the grains are spread over the area or the ears adorn the windows in tightly packed rows, their bright yellow explodes next to dark red peppers and scarlet aprons, that give, under the sun, a wonderful color tableaux.”[15] Antartiko had 169 inhabitants in 1981.

[citation needed] Foto S. Tomev (1899-1986), Emigrant to Canada, author of "A Short History of Zhelevo Village, Macedonia"; Award-winning Canadian fine artist.

Foto Spiro Tomev was a talented Toronto-based artist who, after studying with different members of the Group of Seven and graduating from the Ontario College of Art in 1922 started painting and continued to do so up until the early to the mid-1980s.

Tomev, Foto S. Title Macedonian Folktales Occasional papers in ethnic and immigration studies Authors Foto S. Tomev, Multicultural History Society of Ontario Editor Lillian Petroff Publisher Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1980