Achlada ( el, Αχλάδα, before 1926: Κρουσοράτη - ''Krousorati'';
bg, Крушоради, ''Krushoradi'',
Macedonian: , ''Krušoradi'') is a village in the
Florina regional unit,
Western Macedonia
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,
Greece
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.
History
The settlement was mentioned in an
Ottoman tax register (
defter) of 1626–1627, under the name of ''Krushorad'', and was described as having sixty-one non-Muslim households. The Russian
slavist
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Victor Grigorovich
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recorded ''Krushorade'' () as mainly
Bulgarian
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* Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group
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* Bul ...
village in 1845. The population of the village was under the supremacy of the
Bulgarian Exarchate in the beginning of the 20th century. The survey "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne" by Dimitar Mishev concluded that the Christian population in 1905 was composed of 760
Bulgarian Exarchists
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.
[D.M.Brancoff. "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne". Paris, 1905, pp. 176-177.] The name was changed to the
Greek
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Achlada after the
Balkan Wars
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. The father of
Nikola Gruevski
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(former Prime Minister of
North Macedonia
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) was born in Achlada.
Achlada had 313 inhabitants in 1981.
In fieldwork done by Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Achlada was populated by
Slavophones.
The
Macedonian language
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was spoken by people over 60, mainly in private.
[ Table 3: Achlada, 313; S, M3; S = Slavophones, M = macédonien"]
References
Populated places in Florina (regional unit)
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