Neapoli ( el, Νεάπολη) is a town and a former
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in
Kozani regional unit,
West Macedonia
Western Macedonia ( el, Δυτική Μακεδονία, translit=Ditikí Makedonía, ) is one of the thirteen regions of Greece, consisting of the western part of Macedonia. Located in north-western Greece, it is divided into the regional unit ...
,
Greece
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. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality
Voio
Voio ( el, Βόιο, ''Vóio''; grc, Βόιον - ''Boeon'') is a mountain range in the southwestern Kastoria and western Kozani regional units in Greece. The mountain is part of the Pindus mountains. Its highest elevation is 1,805 m. It is a d ...
, of which it is a municipal unit.
The municipal unit has an area of 238.277 km
2, the community 22.001 km
2.
The municipal unit has a population of 4,100 while the community has 2,323 inhabitants (2011).
Present-day Neapoli was once known as the ancient town of Palladium.
In the
Ottoman period it was named Anaselítsa or Nasliç
[State-Nationalisms in the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Turkey]
Benjamin C. Fortna, Stefanos Katsikas, Dimitris Kamouzis, Paraskevas Konortas
Routledge, 27.11.2012 and had a large population of
Greek Muslims
Greek Muslims, also known as Grecophone Muslims, are Muslims of Greek ethnic origin whose adoption of Islam (and often the Turkish language and identity) dates to the period of Ottoman rule in the southern Balkans. They consist primarily of th ...
referred to by locals as
Vallahades The Vallahades ( el, Βαλαχάδες) or Valaades ( el, Βαλαάδες) were a Muslim Macedonian Greek population who lived along the river Haliacmon in southwest Greek Macedonia, in and around Anaselitsa (modern Neapoli) and Grevena. They n ...
.
References
Populated places in Kozani (regional unit)
Former municipalities in Western Macedonia
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