Filoteia ( el, Φιλώτεια, before 1922: Κουζούσιανη - ''Kouzousiani''
) is a village in
Pella regional unit,
Macedonia,
Greece
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.
Filoteia had 647 inhabitants in 1981.
In fieldwork done by Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Filoteia was populated by
Slavophones and a
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
population descended from Anatolian Greek refugees who arrived during 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
Macedonian language
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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 4: Filotia, 647; S, R, M3; S = Slavophones, R = Refugiés, M = macédonien"] A mosque used to exist in the village, later destroyed.
References
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Populated places in Pella (regional unit)
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