Kranionas

Kranionas is a village and a community in Kastoria Regional Unit, Western Macedonia, Greece.
The residents spoke the Dolna Korèshcha variant of the Kostur dialect. The village consisted of two separate parts: Gorna Maala and Dolna Maala, separated by one kilometer, with the village river running between the quarters.
In mid–1941 Kranionas along with Slavic Macedonian inhabitants from several villages partook in a celebration commemorating the Battle of Lokvata, fought by Bulgarian revolutionaries against Ottoman [Army (1861–1922)|Ottoman soldiers] in 1903.
In 1945, Greek Foreign Minister Ioannis Politis ordered the compilation of demographic data regarding the Prefecture of Kastoria. The village Kranionas had a total of 623 inhabitants, populated by 60 Slavophones.