Agios Athanasios ( el, Άγιος Αθανάσιος, before 1926: , ''Tsegani'';,

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/ Macedonian: Чеган, ''Chegan'') is a village in the Pella regional unit of Macedonia,

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. The village is located north of

Lake Vegoritida Lake Vegoritida ( el, Λίμνη Βεγορίτιδα, ''Limni Vegoritida''), also known in the past as Lake Ostrovo ( el, Λίμνη Οστρόβου, ''Limni Ostrovou''), is a large natural lake in western Macedonia, northern Greece. It is situa ...

within the

Vegoritida Vegoritida ( el, Βεγορίτιδα) is a former municipality in the Pella regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Edessa, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 2 ...

municipal unit which belongs to the municipality of Edessa.

History

In the book "Ethnographie des Vilayets d'Adrianople, de Monastir et de Salonique", published in

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...

in 1878, that reflects the statistics of the male population in 1873, ''Tchegantche'' was noted as a village with 124 households and 547

inhabitants. In 1900,

Vasil Kanchov Vasil Kanchov ( bg, Васил Кънчов, Vasil Kanchov) (26 July 1862 – 6 February 1902) was a Bulgarian geographer, ethnographer and politician. Biography Vasil Kanchov was born in Vratsa. Upon graduating from High school in Lom ...

gathered and compiled statistics on demographics in the area and reported that the village of Chegan was inhabited by about 750 Bulgarian Christians.

(1900)
Кънчов, Васил. Македония. Етнография и статистика, София, 1900, с. 149. (Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics, p. 149
Accessed 25 May 2019 (in Bulgarian) In August 1916 Bulgarian and Serbian forces fought near the village during the Chegan Offensive.

References

Populated places in Pella (regional unit) Edessa, Greece {{CMacedonia-geo-stub