Some inhabited places in
Kavala Prefecture of
Greece have additional forms to ones officially used. Some of the forms are identifiably of
Greek origin, others of
Slavic, yet others of
Turkish
Turkish may refer to:
*a Turkic language spoken by the Turks
* of or about Turkey
** Turkish language
*** Turkish alphabet
** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
*** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey
*** Turkish communities and mi ...
or more obscure origins. Following the
First World War and the
Graeco-Turkish War which followed, the Greek government undertook a renaming program to place Greek names first on places with Turkophonic, and later on those with Slavophonic names.
[Todor Hristov Simovski, The Inhabited Places of the Aegean Macedonia (Skopje 1998), , pp. XXXVIII-XLII.]
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* List compiled by th
Institute for Neohellenic Research
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Kavala (regional unit)
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Place names of Turkish origin in Greece