Karydia ( el, Καρυδιά, before 1927: Τέχοβο - ''Techovo'',

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: Техово, ''Tehovo'') is a village in the municipality of

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, Pella regional unit, northern

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. It is situated 9 km northwest of Edessa. At the church in the locality Kosteno ( el, Κόστενο,

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: Костен, ''Kosten'') there is an annual festival on 21 May, the day of Saint

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History

There were 81 Christian households in the village of Tehova in 1619–1620. 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, ''Téhovo'' was noted as a village with 187 households and 880

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 ''Teovo'' was inhabited by 604 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)

References

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