Tranovalto

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Belongs to the municipality Servia-VELVENDOU
The Tranovalto mountain village of Kozani, is 42km from Kozani, located south of Kozani, in an extension of the range of mountains in Kamvounion altitude of 670 meters. It has a population of 853 inhabitants (2001) and area 92 sq. km. thousand local authority currently has the expanded municipality Servia-VELVENDOU. Before Kamvounion belongs to the municipality and was the seat of the municipality.
Historically, the area of ​​Tranovalto (according to survey findings) appears to have been inhabited since the Neolithic Age and the Iron Age until the Hellenistic period (G. Karamitrou-Mentesidi 1999, 282). In the area of ​​Tranovalto identified two handmade pottery (Beetle and jug) and delivered by residents in 1984 to the archaeological department.
During the German occupation, Tranovalto suffered the destructive fury of the German troops, which in the context of clearing firms, 21 August 1943 set fire completely destroyed the village and the church of St. Athanasius and executed by musketry 14 people to " fern-Cross ", and the same scene was repeated on 10 February 1944 completing the destruction of Tranovalto after you torched homes were saved from the previous raid in the village (08/21/1943) and killed 5 people.
After the period of the Civil War, where Tranovalto tested hard by the devastating consequences of the fratricidal conflict in the Reconstruction of the devastated site of the disastrous decade (1940-1949), the Greek Army undertook the construction of roads, bridges, etc. The aft stones for the construction of these projects took from the mountain where the quarries are now Tranovalto. Soldiers hailing from Paros, Karpathos, Volos, knowing of marbles, realized that the stones used were marble and even high quality. So in 1953, to "Bisteria" opened the first quarry in the Thessalonian Laloumi pioneers in Larissa Skoutaris etc with the first workers usually islanders from Paros and Karpathos ..