Dipotamia ( el, Διποταμία, before 1927: Ρέβανη – ''Revani'';
sq, Revan
) is a village and a community in
Kastoria Regional Unit,
Macedonia
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* Macedonia (ancient kingdom), a kingdom in Greek antiquity
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,
Greece
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. The community includes the villages Kali Vrysi and
Mesovracho
Mesovracho ( el, Μεσόβραχο, before 1927: Ζέλεγκραδ – ''Zelegkrad'') is a village in Kastoria Regional Unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. It is part of the community of Dipotamia.
The Greek census (1920) recorded 260 people i ...
.
Revani was populated by
Albanian speaking Muslim inhabitants and they used to intermarry with the nearby Muslim villages of Menkulas, Vidohovë and Miras (now in
Albania
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).
The Greek census (1920) recorded 721 people in the village and in 1923 there were 673 inhabitants (or 85 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 ...
, the Muslim population of Revani went to
Turkey
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in 1924 and Anatolian Orthodox Christians settled in the village.
In 1926, 130 refugee families from
Pontus were in Revani.
The Greek census (1928) recorded 468 inhabitants.
In 1928 there were 128 refugee families (493 people).
After the population exchange, the site where the village mosque stood was replaced by the present church, the Assumption of the Virgin, built in 1925.
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Populated places in Kastoria (regional unit)
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