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Riding richly caparisoned horses...

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Riding richly caparisoned horses, dozens of riders gathered yesterday in the northern town of Siatista, near Kozani in western Macedonia, to revive a centuries-old custom of an annual, 12-kilometer horseback pilgrimage to a monastery in the village of Mikrokastro on the feast day of the Dormition of the Virgin.

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