Originally posted by Soldier of Macedon
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For its name there are 2 versions. At first considered that the name has Slavic origin (mets + ovo = village of bears), while the other is deemed to come from the merger of the Greek word medium + vouni, due to its geographical position between two mountains.
medved - mets - sure why not.
Dragan from what? The Serbian name Dragan from Drago - dorogo , meaning precious?
Ill stick with Dragatis, Dragasia is a village close to me and it was called Dislapo before, there is also Draganon and Dragatina.
As for Kastana,
'According to Pliny, the Greeks obtained the tree from Sardis in Asia Minor, at least five centuries before the Christian era, a statement which De Candolle doubts, since he considers the tree undoubtedly wild in Greece, where, as early as the fourth century B.C., Theophrastus, "the Father of Botany," speaks of it as covering the slopes of Olympus.'
1570, from chesten nut (1519), from M.E. chasteine, from O.Fr. chastaigne, from L. castanea, from Gk. kastaneia, which the Greeks thought meant either "nut from Castanea" in Pontus, or "nut from Castana" in Thessaly, but probably both places are named for the trees, not the other way around.'
Anastasova = ? Anastas clan ?
Dhromista, Dromitsa - Dromos = road
Keramitsa - Keramidia = Bricks
Dospat Dere - Dere, which is the Turkish word for "River",
Fushtani - Foustani - dress , skirt, latin origin
Kato Lipochori - Kato = lower Lipos = fat chori = village
Kerasovo - Kerasia = cherries
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