Kelli (Drama), Greece

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Coordinates: 41°11′N, 24°19′E Kelli (Greek: Κελλή; Slavic: Кели - Keli[1]) is a former village in Drama Prefecture, Greece. The former mayor of Kelli, Alexander Traikos, stated that the town of 1.000 speaks the Slavic idiom ("Macedonian language" by ethnic Macedonians, non existent to Greeks) but that Slavic should not be taught in Greece, since it doesn't exist and that the locals does not speak the Skopjan language (Slavic Macedonian)[2].

[edit] References

  1. ^ Todor Hristov Simovski, The Inhabited Places of the Aegean Macedonia (Skopje 1998), ISBN 9989-9819-4-9, p. 171
  2. ^ Denying Ethnic Identity, Helsinki Human Rights Watch

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