Psarades ( el, Ψαράδες), is a village and a

community A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, tow ...

of the Prespes municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of

Prespes Prespes ( el, Πρέσπες) is a municipality in the Florina regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. Its population in 2011 was 7,380. The seat of the municipality is in Laimos. It was named after Lake Prespa The Lake Prespa is located o ...

, of which it was a municipal district.

Name

The current name of the village, Psarades, means "fishermen" in Greek. Until 1927, Psarades was known as Nivitsa ( el, Νίβιτσα). In

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and in Macedonian, it is known as Нивици; ''Nivitsi'', meaning ''fields''. "Нивици... Во селото и сега има Македонци... Името е топографско, примарно, рамно на дем. од нива (во sing. или pl). На грцки селото се вика Ψαράδες."

History

At the end of the 19th century, Nivitsi was a predominantly Bulgarian village. The Ethnography of the Adrianople, Monastir and Salonica villas, published in Constantinople in 1878 and reflecting the statistics of the 1873 male population, Nivitzi is referred to as a village in the

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of Resen with 30 households and 92 Bulgarians. Another report, at the beginning of the 20th century, also stated that Nivitsi was a predominantly Bulgarian village. According to the statistics of

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, ...

("Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics"), 200 Bulgarian Christians lived in the village in 1900. After the

Ilinden Uprising Ilinden ( Bulgarian/Macedonian Cyrillic: Илинден) or Ilindan (Serbian Cyrillic: Илиндан), meaning "Saint Elijah Elijah ( ; he, אֵלִיָּהוּ, ʾĒlīyyāhū, meaning "My God is Yahweh/YHWH"; Greek form: Elias, ''Elías'' ...

in 1904, the whole village passed under the jurisdiction of the

Bulgarian Exarchate The Bulgarian Exarchate ( bg, Българска екзархия, Balgarska ekzarhiya; tr, Bulgar Eksarhlığı) was the official name of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church before its autocephaly was recognized by the Ecumenical See in 1945 and th ...

. According to the Exarchist secretary Dimitar Mishev (1906), there were 528 Bulgarian Exarchists in Nivitsi. The Bulgarian church "Virgin Mary" was built here in 1893.

Prespa agreement

On 17 June 2018, the Prime Ministers of Greece and the Republic of Macedonia signed an agreement at the village, aiming the end of the

Macedonia naming dispute The use of the country name "Macedonia (terminology), Macedonia" was disputed between Greece and the North Macedonia, Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) between 1991 and 2019. The dispute was a source of instability in the Balkans#W ...

.Greece and Macedonia sign agreement on name change
/ref> The Prespa Agreement took its name from homonymous lake, on the shores of which the village of Psarades was built.

Demographics

Psarades had 172 inhabitants in 1981. In fieldwork done by Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Psarades was populated by Slavophones. The

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was spoken in the village by people over 30 in public and private settings. Children understood the language, but mostly did not use it. Table 3: Psarades, 172; S, M2; S = Slavophones, M = macédonien" The 2011 census recorded 83 inhabitants in the village. The community of Psarades covers an area of 41.064 km² (15 sq. mi.).

References

{{Prespes div Populated places in Florina (regional unit)

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History

Prespa agreement

Demographics

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