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Rodonas ( el, Ροδώνας, before 1926: Γκιούλεντς - ''Gkioulents'') is a village in Florina Regional Unit, Macedonia,
Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders ...
. The Greek census (1920) recorded 129 people in the village and in 1923 there were 1123 inhabitants (or 33 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 Gkioulents there were 28 refugee families from the
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. The Greek census (1928) recorded 110 village inhabitants. There were 28 refugee families (91 people) in 1928. In the early years after their arrival, the refugees used the village mosque as a school, later it was abandoned (and in the modern period no longer exists) when a new school building was constructed.


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