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Armenochori ( el, Αρμενοχώρι; mk, Арменово, ''Armenovo''; bg, Арменово, ''Armenovo'' or Арменохор, ''Armenohor'') is a village in the Florina regional unit, northern
''La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne''
p. 176 It also had 2 schools, 1 Bulgarian and 1 Greek. The Greek census (1920) recorded 871 people in the village and in 1923 there were 40 inhabitants (or 6 families) who were Muslim. Following the
In 1990 the Armenochori Cultural Society started collecting objects from folk culture which led to the creation of the Folklore Collection. The collection is housed in the old primary school of Armenochori in the centre of the village. Displayed in the three rooms of the building are objects from folk culture, which come exclusively from the families of Armenochori. There are men's and women's traditional costumes, domestic utensils, various metal, earthenware or wooden objects used in the home, objects relating to cottage industry, the most notable among them being a nineteenth-century loom, farming tools and tools of a number of other occupations, as well as the old pulpit from the village church.Museums of Macedonia
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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 ...
. It is situated along the Greek National Road 2
Greek National Road 2 ( el, Εθνική Οδός 2, abbreviated as EO2) is a single carriageway with at-grade intersections, located in the regions of West Macedonia, Central Macedonia and East Macedonia and Thrace. It connects the Albanian b ...
, 4 km northeast of Florina.
Demographics
In 1845 the Russian slavist Victor Grigorovich recorded ''Arminor'' as mainlyBulgarian
Bulgarian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the country of Bulgaria
* Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group
* Bulgarian language, a Slavic language
* Bulgarian alphabet
* A citizen of Bulgaria, see Demographics of Bulgaria
* Bul ...
village. According to the statistics of Geographers Dimitri Mishev and D. M. Brancoff, the town had a total Christian population of 776 in 1905, consisting of 424 Patriarchist Bulgarians
Bulgarians ( bg, българи, Bǎlgari, ) are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Bulgaria and the rest of Southeast Europe.
Etymology
Bulgarians derive their ethnonym from the Bulgars. Their name is not completely understo ...
(Grecoman
Grecoman or Graecoman (Greek: Γραικομάνοι, ''Grekománoi'', Bulgarian: Гъркомани, ''Garkomani'', Macedonian: Гркомани, ''Grkomani'', Romanian: ''Grecomani'', Albanian: ''Grekomanë'', Aromanian: ''Gricumanji'') is a pe ...
s) and 352 Exarchist Bulgarians.Dimitri Mishev and D. M. Brancoff''La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne''
p. 176 It also had 2 schools, 1 Bulgarian and 1 Greek. The Greek census (1920) recorded 871 people in the village and in 1923 there were 40 inhabitants (or 6 families) who were Muslim. Following the
Greek-Turkish population exchange
The 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey ( el, Ἡ Ἀνταλλαγή, I Antallagí, ota, مبادله, Mübâdele, tr, Mübadele) stemmed from the "Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations" signed at ...
, in 1926 within Armenochori there were 36 refugee families from Pontus. The Greek census (1928) recorded 1045 village inhabitants. There were 36 refugee families (151 people) in 1928.
Armenochori had 1046 inhabitants in 1981. In fieldwork done by Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Armenochori was populated by Slavophones and a Greek population descended from Anatolian Greek refugees who arrived during the Greek-Turkish population exchange. The Macedonian language
Macedonian (; , , ) is an Eastern South Slavic language. It is part of the Indo-European language family, and is one of the Slavic languages, which are part of a larger Balto-Slavic branch. Spoken as a first language by around two million ...
was spoken in the village by people over 30 in public and private settings. Children understood the language, but mostly did not use it. Pontic Greek
Pontic Greek ( pnt, Ποντιακόν λαλίαν, or ; el, Ποντιακή διάλεκτος, ; tr, Rumca) is a variety of Modern Greek indigenous to the Pontus region on the southern shores of the Black Sea, northeastern Anatolia, ...
was spoken by people over 60, mainly in private. Table 1: Réfugiés grecs; Footnote 2: Le terme « réfugié » est utilisé ici pour désigner les Grecs d’Asie Mineure qui se sont établis en Grèce dans les années vingt après l’échange de population entre la Turquie et la Grèce (Traité de Lausanne, 1924). Table 3: Armenochori, 1046; S, R, M2, P3; S = Slavophones, R = Refugiés, M = macédonien, P = dialecte pontique"
Culture
In 1990 the Armenochori Cultural Society started collecting objects from folk culture which led to the creation of the Folklore Collection. The collection is housed in the old primary school of Armenochori in the centre of the village. Displayed in the three rooms of the building are objects from folk culture, which come exclusively from the families of Armenochori. There are men's and women's traditional costumes, domestic utensils, various metal, earthenware or wooden objects used in the home, objects relating to cottage industry, the most notable among them being a nineteenth-century loom, farming tools and tools of a number of other occupations, as well as the old pulpit from the village church.web site
References
{{Florina div Folk museums in Western Macedonia Populated places in Florina (regional unit)