PSARADES . . . Psarades is a traditional mountain settlement in the northwest of the prefecture of Florina, on the southern shore of Lake Megali Prespa. Until 1928 it was called Nivitsi. In the winter months 60 people live here, in the summer 100. The main sources of income are fishing, cattle breeding (a rare breed of cow, the brachykeratika breed) and tourism. It is the only Greek village on the banks of the Megali Prespa and has been declared a traditional site. The governor of Hippocrates, George Christianopoulos, is from Psarades. History One of the last acts of the Greek civil war Psarades was the site of one of the last acts of the Greek civil war in 1949. The second congress of the NOF (People's Liberation Front), the successor organisation of the SNOF (Slavic Macedonian People's Liberation Front), was held in the church of the village on 25 and 26 March 1949, attended by 700 delegates and addressed by the then KKE leader Nikos Zachariadis. On the occasion of the congress, the NOF had issued a statement saying: "The second congress of the NOF will be a congress where the new programmatic principles of the NOF will be declared. Principles that are the eternal desire of our people. It will proclaim the unification of Macedonia into a single, independent, equal Macedonian state within the People's Democratic Federation of the Balkan Peoples, which is the justification for its long, bloody struggles." In the end, the Congress proclaimed the right of self-determination of the "Macedonian" people. This was preceded by the decision of the 5th Plenum of the KKE on 30 and 31 January 1949 in Gramos. January 1949 in Gramos, which changed the Party's position on Slavic-speaking Greeks from the "plural equality of minorities living in Greece" to the self-determination of Slavic-speaking Greeks, the resolution said: "In northern Greece, the Macedonian (Slavic-Macedonian) people gave everything to the struggle and fought with a consummation of heroism and self-sacrifice that arouses admiration. There should be no doubt that as a result of the victory of the IOE and the people's revolution, the Macedonian people will find their complete national restoration as they wish." After the Congress, however, the KKE withdrew from this position and in order to be able to control the NOF, it founded the Communist Organisation of Macedonia of the Aegean (COEM) on 27 March 1949. The Prespa Agreement was signed in Psarades in 2018.