evacuated or fled to Yugoslavia and the Eastern Bloc. Transport Rail The city is served by Florina station on the Thessaloniki–Bitola line, with local trains to Thessaloniki. Economy Florina is a market town with an economy dominated by agriculture, forestry, summer and winter tourism, cross-border trading and the sale of local produce such as grain, grapes, and vegetables including Florina peppers. It also has textile mills and is known for locally manufactured leather handicrafts. The most notable industrial activity is the very large Ptolemaia-Florina lignite mine. Its university changed in 2002 from being a branch of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, to a part of the University of Western Macedonia. After 2004, four departments that previously belonged to the Aristotle University, reinforced its potential. Florina has 8 radio stations, 2 daily political newspapers, 4 weekly ones, one women's press and two newspapers on sports. During the 1950s and 1960s, the area lost much of its population to emigration, both to Athens and Thessaloniki as well as US, Canada, Australia and Germany. Following Greece's EU membership and the economic upturn, many from Germany returned. Landmarks Archaeological Museum of Florina Florina Museum of Modern Art The Florina Art Gallery Folklore Museum of the Aristotle Association Folklore Museum of the Culture Club Demographics Austrian diplomat Johann Georg von Hahn visited the city in 1861 and wrote about it in his travel log From Belgrade to Salonica. In it he writes that "[a]bout the houses in Florina, we should indicate that there are at most 3000, with half of the population Albanian and Turkish Muslims and the other half Christian Bulgarians." According to an 1878 French ethnographic book Florina was a town of 1500 households, inhabited by 2800 Muslims and 1800 Bulgarians.<ref>„Ethnographie des Vilayets d'Andrinople, de Monastir et de Salonique, Ethnographie Vilayet de Monsati., p.6-21</ref> In 1896 French diplomat and traveller Victor Bérard visited Florina. He described Florina as "consisting of 1500 houses of Albanians and "converted Slavs", with perhaps a hundred "Turkish" families and 500 Christian families." Bérard noted that "These Slavs nonetheless call themselves Greek and speak Greek—with us at least". In 1901/1902 school year statistics, Greek students were clearly much more than the Bulgarian ones. A Jewish Sephardi community was present in Florina during the 17th century. Under Ottoman rule, the Jews of Florina had close ties with the Jewish community of Monastir (modern Bitola). Romani people migrated from Anatolia to