Polyplatano ( el, Πολυπλάτανο, before 1926: Κλαμπουσίστα - ''Klampousista''
) is a village in
Florina Regional Unit,
Macedonia,
Greece
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.
The Greek census (1920) recorded 628 people in the village and in 1923 there were 45 inhabitants (or 11 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 ...
, in 1926 within Klampousista there were 29 refugee families from
Pontus
Pontus or Pontos may refer to:
* Short Latin name for the Pontus Euxinus, the Greek name for the Black Sea (aka the Euxine sea)
* Pontus (mythology), a sea god in Greek mythology
* Pontus (region), on the southern coast of the Black Sea, in modern ...
.
The Greek census (1928) recorded 742 village inhabitants.
In 1928, there were 29 refugee families (128 people).
Polyplatano had 428 inhabitants in 1981.
In fieldwork done by Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Polyplatano 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 population exchange.
The
Macedonian language
Macedonian (; , , ) is an Eastern South Slavic language. It is part of the Indo-European language family, and is one of the Slavic languages, which are part of a larger Balto-Slavic branch. Spoken as a first language by around two million ...
was used by people of all ages, both in public and private settings, and as the main language for interpersonal relationships.
Some elderly villagers had little knowledge of Greek.
Pontic Greek
Pontic Greek ( pnt, Ποντιακόν λαλίαν, or ; el, Ποντιακή διάλεκτος, ; tr, Rumca) is a variety of Modern Greek indigenous to the Pontus region on the southern shores of the Black Sea, northeastern Anatolia, ...
was spoken by people over 60, mainly in private.
[ para.1. "l’arvanitika (proche de l’albanais)"; 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 3: Poliplatanos, 428; S, R, M1, P3; S = Slavophones, R = Refugiés, M = macédonien, P = dialecte pontique"]
References
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Populated places in Florina (regional unit)
Florina