Komninades ( el, Κομνηνάδες, before 1927: Σιάκι – ''Siaki'';
sq, Shag
) is a village in
Kastoria Regional Unit,
Western Macedonia,
Greece
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.
Siaki 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 690 people in the village and in 1923 there were 683 inhabitants (or 95 families) who were Muslim Albanians.
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 Siaki went to
Turkey
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in 1924 and Anatolian Orthodox Christians settled in the village.
In 1926, 69 refugee families from
Pontus were in Siaki.
The Greek census (1928) recorded 254 inhabitants.
There were 67 refugee families (266 people) in 1928.
After the population exchange, the site where the village mosque stood was replaced by the present church, the Assumption of the Virgin, built in 1931.
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Populated places in Kastoria (regional unit)
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