Xifiani ( el, Ξιφιανή, before 1922: Κωστούργιαννη – ''Kostourgianni'',
between 1922 and 1953: Ξυφώνια – ''Xyfoneia'')
is a village in
Pella regional unit,
Macedonia
Macedonia most commonly refers to:
* North Macedonia, a country in southeastern Europe, known until 2019 as the Republic of Macedonia
* Macedonia (ancient kingdom), a kingdom in Greek antiquity
* Macedonia (Greece), a traditional geographic reg ...
,
Greece.
After the village became part of Greece, its mosque was turned into the church of Agios Polykarpos.
Xifiani had 923 inhabitants in 1981.
In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Xifiani was populated by
Slavophones and a
Greek population descended from Anatolian Greek refugees who arrived during the
Greek–Turkish 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 spoken in the village by people over 30 in public and private settings.
Children understood the language, but mostly did not use it.
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 in the village by people over 30 in public and private settings.
Children understood the language, but mostly did not use it.
[ 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 4: Xifiani, 923; S, R, M2, P2; S = Slavophones, R = Refugiés, M = macédonien, P = dialecte pontique"]
References
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Populated places in Pella (regional unit)
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