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Mountain in West Macedonia, Greece
Verno
(
Greek
:
Β?ρνο
) or
Vitsi
(
Greek
:
Β?τσι
) is a forested
mountain range
in the southern part of the
Florina
and the northeastern part of the
Kastoria
regional units
in
Western Macedonia
, northern
Greece
. The elevation of its highest peak, Verno, is 2,128 m (6,982 ft).
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It stretches from the village
Trivouno
in the northwest to
Kleisoura
in the southeast, over a length of about 30 km (19 mi). The nearest mountains are the
Askio
to the southeast, the
Baba
to the north and the northern
Pindus
to the southwest. It is drained towards the river
Sakoulevas
(a tributary of the
Crna
) to the northeast, and towards the
Aliakmonas
and
Lake Kastoria
to the southwest.
The nearest towns are
Kastoria
to the southwest and
Florina
to the northeast. Mountain villages in the Verno mountains include Trivouno,
Polypotamo
and
Triantafyllia
in the north,
Makrochori
,
Vyssinia
and
Vasileiada
in the south and
Nymfaio
in the east. The
Greek National Road 2
(
Krystallopigi
- Florina -
Edessa
-
Thessaloniki
) runs north of the mountains. There is a road to the top of the mountain Vitsi.
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