Many inhabited places in Pella Prefecture of

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have both Slavic and Greek forms. Some of the forms are identifiably of Greek origin, others of Slavic, yet others of

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or more obscure origins. Following the

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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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