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Meliti Municipality
Meliti ( el, Δήμος Μελίτης) is a former municipality in Florina regional unit, West Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Florina, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 269.477 km2. The seat of the municipality was in Neochoraki. Subdivisions The municipal unit Meliti is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): * Neochoraki (Neochoraki, Agios Athanasios) * Achlada (Achlada, Ano Achlada, Giourouki) *Vevi * Itea *Lofoi * Meliti * Palaistra * Pappagiannis *Sitaria * Skopos * Tripotamos Demographics According to the 2011 census, the population of Meliti Municipality was 7,803 people. The municipality has a mixed population of Slavophone Greeks and the descendants of Greek refugees from Asia Minor Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Macedonia
Western Macedonia ( el, Δυτική Μακεδονία, translit=Ditikí Makedonía, ) is one of the thirteen regions of Greece, consisting of the western part of Macedonia. Located in north-western Greece, it is divided into the regional units of Florina, Grevena, Kastoria, and Kozani. With a population of approximately 255,000 people, as of 2021, the region had one of the highest unemployment rates in the European Union. Geography The region of Western Macedonia is situated in north-western Greece, bordering with the regions of Central Macedonia (east), Thessaly (south), Epirus (west), and bounded to the north at the international borders of Greece with the Republic of North Macedonia (Bitola, Resen and Novaci municipalities) and Albania (Korçë County). Although it covers a total surface of (7.2% of country's total), it has a total population of 283,689 inhabitants (2.6% of the country's total), thus it is a low-density populated region (30 per km2, as compared to the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palaistra, Florina
Palaistra ( el, Παλαίστρα, Macedonian/Bulgarian: Борешница, ''Boreshnitsa'') is a village in the Florina regional unit, Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with .... Demographics References Populated places in Florina (regional unit) Florina {{WMacedonia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Former Municipalities In Western Macedonia
A former is an object, such as a template, gauge or cutting die, which is used to form something such as a boat's hull. Typically, a former gives shape to a structure that may have complex curvature. A former may become an integral part of the finished structure, as in an aircraft fuselage, or it may be removable, being using in the construction process and then discarded or re-used. Aircraft formers Formers are used in the construction of aircraft fuselage, of which a typical fuselage has a series from the nose A nose is a protuberance in vertebrates that houses the nostrils, or nares, which receive and expel air for respiration alongside the mouth. Behind the nose are the olfactory mucosa and the sinuses. Behind the nasal cavity, air next passes th ... to the empennage, typically perpendicular to the Flight control surfaces#Longitudinal_axis, longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The primary purpose of formers is to establish the shape of the fuselage and reduce the colu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asia Minor
Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey. The region is bounded by the Turkish Straits to the northwest, the Black Sea to the north, the Armenian Highlands to the east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west. The Sea of Marmara forms a connection between the Black and Aegean seas through the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits and separates Anatolia from Thrace on the Balkan peninsula of Southeast Europe. The eastern border of Anatolia has been held to be a line between the Gulf of Alexandretta and the Black Sea, bounded by the Armenian Highlands to the east and Mesopotamia to the southeast. By this definition Anatolia comprises approximately the western two-thirds of the Asian part of Turkey. Today, Anatolia is sometimes considered to be synonymous with Asia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Refugees
Greek refugees is a collective term used to refer to the more than one million Greek Orthodox natives of Asia Minor, Thrace and the Black Sea areas who fled during the Greek genocide (1914-1923) and Greece's later defeat in the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), as well as remaining Greek Orthodox inhabitants of Turkey who were required to leave their homes for Greece shortly thereafter as part of the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, which formalized the population transfer and barred the return of the refugees. This Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations was signed in Lausanne, on January 30, 1923 as part of the peace treaty between Greece and Turkey and required all remaining Orthodox Christians in Turkey, regardless of what language they spoke, be relocated to Greece with the exception of those in Istanbul and two nearby islands. Although the term has been used in various times to refer to fleeing populations of Greek descent (primarily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavophone Greeks
, region3 = , pop3 = 81,745 (2006 census) – 90,000 (est.) descendants of migrants from the region of Macedonia , ref3 = , region4 = , pop4 = 50,000 – 70,000 (est., incl. descendants) , ref4 = Simpson, Neil (1994). Macedonia Its Disputed History. Victoria: Aristoc Press. pp. 92. . , region5 = , pop5 = 26,000 (est.) , ref5 = Peter, Hill. (1989) The Macedonians in Australia, Hesperian Press, Carlisle , region6 = , pop6 = 30,000 (est.) , ref6 = , region7 = (Banat) , pop7 = 7,500 (est.) , languages = Macedonian, Bulgarian, Greek , religions = Greek Orthodox Church, Islam Slavic speakers are a minority population in the northern Greek region of Macedonia, who are mostly concentrated in certain parts of the peripheries of West and Central Macedonia, adjacent to the territory of the state of North Macedonia. The language called "Slavic" in the context of Greece is generally called "Macedonian" or "Macedonian Slavic" otherwise. Some members have formed their own emigran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tripotamos, Florina
Tripotamos ( el, Τριπόταμος, before 1928: Πετοράκι - ''Petoraki''; Macedonian/Bulgarian: Петорак, ''Petorak'') is a village in Florina regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. The Greek census (1920) recorded 135 people in the village. Following the Greek-Turkish population exchange, in 1926 within Petoraki there were 27 refugee families from the Caucasus and 3 from an unidentified location. The Greek census (1928) recorded 319 village inhabitants. There were 34 refugee families (140 people) in 1928. Tripotamos had 550 inhabitants in 1981. In fieldwork done by Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Tripotamos was populated by Slavophones, a Greek population descended from Anatolian Greek refugees who arrived during the population exchange, and Arvanites. The Macedonian language was used by people of all ages, both in public and private settings, and as the main language for interpersonal relationships. Some elderly villagers had little knowledge of Gree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skopos
Skopos ( el, Σκοπός, before 1926: Σέτινα - ''Setina'';Macedonian: Сетина, ''Setina'') is a village in Florina regional unit, Greece. History There were fortified palaces of Bulgarian Tsar Samuel at the beginning of the 11th century, near the place where today's village is. In the autumn of 1017 the fortress was captured and burned down by the Byzantine Emperor Basil II. Soon afterwards, the Battle of Setina took place. In it the Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Vladislav opposed the Byzantines, but he was defeated. In 1845 the Russian slavist Victor Grigorovich recorded "Tsrevo" as a mainly Bulgarian village. In the book ''Ethnographie des Vilayets d'Adrianople, de Monastir et de Salonique'', published in Constantinople in 1878, that reflects the statistics of the male population in 1873, "Setigne" was noted as a village with 50 households and 140 male Bulgarian inhabitants.Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sitaria
Sitaria ( el, Σιταριά, before 1926: Ρόσνα - ''Rosna''; Bulgarian/ mk, Росен / Росна, ''Rosen'' / ''Rosna'') is a village in the Florina regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. History The village with the name "Rosna" is recorded since the 15th century. It was then Mustafa Hasuh's, Ibraim Ibraim's and Kasim Hamza's feud. During 19th century Rosna was a manor belonging to the Robev family of Ohrid and many workers according to the Austrian Johann Georg von Hahn in 1861 ''Rosen'' (or ''Rastna'' at the time) were Bulgarians. This was confirmed the book “Ethnographie des Vilayets d'Adrianople, de Monastir et de Salonique”, published in Constantinople in 1878, that reflects the statistics of the male population in 1873. ''Rossene'' was noted as a village with 45 households and 110 male Bulgarian inhabitants. In 1905, Rosna's population consisted of 480 Bulgarian Exarchists. There was a Bulgarian school in the village. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pappagiannis
Papagiannis ( el, Παπαγιάννης, before 1928: Ποπόζιανη - ''Popoziani'', alternative old name: Βακούφκιοϊ - ''Vakoufkioi''; Macedonian and Bulgarian: Пополжани, ''Popolžani''), is a village in the Florina regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. Demographics The Greek census (1920) recorded 750 people in Popoziani. In 1928, the Greek census recorded 930 village inhabitants. Following the Greek-Turkish population exchange, in 1928 there were 7 refugee families (31 people) in the village. Papagiannis had 915 inhabitants in 1981. In fieldwork done by Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Papagiannis was populated by Slavophones. The Macedonian language was spoken in the village by people over 30 in public and private settings. Children understood the language, but mostly did not use it. Table 3: Papayiannis, 915; S, M2; S = Slavophones, M = macédonien" According to the 2011 census the village had 581 inhabitants. Notable people *Trayan St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meliti
Meliti ( el, Μελίτη, before 1926: Βοστεράνη - ''Vosterani''; bg, Овчарани or Вощарани, mk, Овчарани) is a village in the Florina regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece, 15 km northeast of the city of Florina. It is part of the municipal unit Meliti. Name The name of the village is "Voshterani", "Voštarani" (''Воштарани'', ''Вощарани'') or "Ovčarani" (''Овчарани'') in both Macedonian and Bulgarian. The village was called ''Türbeli'' during the Ottoman Empire. In 1926, it was renamed to "Meliti" in Greek. History The village was first mentioned in an Ottoman defter of 1481, where it was listed under the name ''Voštarani'' and described as having one hundred and ninety-eight households. During the Ottoman period, the village had a mixed Bulgarian and Turkish population."Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г." Македонски нау ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florina (regional Unit)
Florina ( el, Περιφερειακή Ενότητα Φλώρινας, ''Perifereiakí Enótita Flórinas'') is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Western Macedonia, in the geographic region of Macedonia, Greece. Its capital is the town of Florina with a population of around 49.500 (2019) Geography Florina borders the regional units of Pella to the east, Kozani to the south and Kastoriá to the southwest. At the Greek international borders, it is adjacent to Albania (Korçë County) to the west, North Macedonia (Bitola and Resen municipalities) to the north and Lake Prespa to the northwest, where the two borders cross each other. Lake Vegoritida is situated in the east. Mountains in the regional unit include Verno (), Varnous () and Voras (). Administration As from 2011 the regional unit of Florina is subdivided into 3 municipalities. These are (number as in the map in the infobox): *Amyntaio (2) *Florina (1) *Prespes (3) Prefecture Florin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
