Níki is a village situated in the Florina Prefecture

Florina Prefecture

Florina is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of West Macedonia. Its capital is the town of Florina.-Geography:Florina borders the regional units of Pella to the east, Kozani to the south and Kastoriá to the southwest...

, Greece

Greece

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, along the border with the Republic of Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

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. The village is located 14 km north of Florina

Florina

Florina is a town and municipality in mountainous northwestern Macedonia, Greece. Its motto is, 'Where Greece begins'. It is also the Metropolitan seat for the region. It lies in the central part of Florina peripheral unit, of which it is the capital. Florina belongs to the periphery of West...

 at the Medžitlija-Níki

Medžitlija-Niki

The Medžitlija-Níki border crossing linking the Republic of Macedonia with Greece is one of the three transit points for road vehicles between the two states. Situated about 190 km from Thessaloniki and the same to Skopje, it also once served as Yugoslavia's southernmost exit...

 border crossing. Its name in Greek means victory.

The village was first mentioned in an Ottoman defter

Defter

A Defter was a type of tax register in the Ottoman Empire. The information collected could vary, but tahrir defterleri typically included details of villages, dwellings, household heads , ethnicity/religion , and land use.The defter-i hakâni was a land registry, also used for tax...

 of 1468, where it is listed under the name of Negočani and described as having 203 households. In 1481, the number had declined to 112 households. The village produced vines, flax

Flax

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, hemp

Hemp

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, honey, and swine; and possessed mills and a market.

The population of the village in 2001 was 489.