Melas is a village in the regional unit of Kastoria, northern Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

. It belongs to the municipality of Kastoria

Kastoria

Kastoria is a city in northern Greece in the periphery of West Macedonia. It is the capital of Kastoria peripheral unit. It is situated on a promontory on the western shore of Lake Orestiada, in a valley surrounded by limestone mountains...

 and specifically to the municipal unit of Korestia

Korestia

Korestia is a former municipality in Kastoria peripheral unit, West Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Kastoria, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 1,000 . The seat of the municipality was in Makrochori....

. The previous name of the village was Statista, which was changed to Melas, since it was here that the Macedonian fighter Pavlos Melas

Pavlos Melas

Pavlos Melas was an officer of the Hellenic Army, and he was among the first who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia....

 lost his life. A museum

Pavlos Melas Museum

The Pavlos Melas Museum is located in the village of Melas, in the north part of the regional unit of Kastoria, Greece.The building belonged to the Kantzakis family, from whom the Prefecture of Kastoria purchased it. The Museum was inaugurated in the early 1970s and operates today with the support...

 dedicated to Pavlos Melas and the Greek struggle for Macedonia

Greek Struggle for Macedonia

The Macedonian Struggle was a series of social, political, cultural and military conflicts between Greeks and Bulgarians in the region of Ottoman Macedonia between 1904 and 1908...

now operates in the village.