Agios Vartholomaios (Greek: Άγιος Βαρθολομαίος, before 1926: Βαρθολώμ – Vartholom,[2] between 1926–1928: Βαρθολομαίος – Vartholomaios)[3] is a village in Florina regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece.

Agios Vartholomaios
Agios Vartholomaios village church
Agios Vartholomaios village church
Agios Vartholomaios is located in Greece
Agios Vartholomaios
Agios Vartholomaios
Coordinates: 40°45′39″N 21°31′40″E / 40.76083°N 21.52778°E / 40.76083; 21.52778
CountryGreece
Geographic regionMacedonia
Administrative regionWestern Macedonia
Regional unitFlorina
MunicipalityFlorina
Municipal unitPerasma
Population
 (2021)[1]
 • Community157
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
French soldiers in front of village mosque (WWI).

According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov ("Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics"), 360 Muslim Albanians lived in the village in 1900.[4]

The 1920 Greek census recorded 487 people in the village, and 447 inhabitants (80 families) were Muslim in 1923.[5] Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, Greek refugee families in Vartholom were from Asia Minor (3), Pontus (41) and the Caucasus (51) in 1926.[5] The 1928 Greek census recorded 219 village inhabitants.[5] In 1928, the refugee families numbered 94 (353 people).[5] The village mosque with a tall minaret was destroyed.[6]

Agios Vartholomaios had 200 inhabitants in 1981.[7] In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Agios Vartholomaios was populated by a Greek population descended from Anatolian Greek refugees who arrived during the population exchange.[7] Pontic Greek was spoken by people over 60, mainly in private.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
  2. ^ Institute for Neohellenic Research. "Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Vartholom – Vartholomaios". Pandektis. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  3. ^ Institute for Neohellenic Research. "Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Vartholomaios – Agios Vartholomaios". Pandektis. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  4. ^ Kanchov, Vasil, Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics, Sofia, 1900, book 2, p. 46 (in Bulgarian)
  5. ^ a b c d Pelagidis, Efstathios (1992). Η αποκατάσταση των προσφύγων στη Δυτική Μακεδονία (1923–1930) [The rehabilitation of refugees in Western Macedonia: 1923–1930] (Ph.D.) (in Greek). Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. p. 74. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  6. ^ Stavridopoulos, Ioannis (2015). Μνημεία του άλλου: η διαχείριση της οθωμανικής πολιτιστική κληρονομιάς της Μακεδονίας από το 1912 έως σήμερα [Monuments of the other: The management of the Ottoman cultural heritage of Macedonia from 1912 until present] (Ph.D.) (in Greek). University of Ioannina. p. 282. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  7. ^ a b c Van Boeschoten, Riki (2001). "Usage des langues minoritaires dans les départements de Florina et d'Aridea (Macédoine)" [Use of minority languages in the departments of Florina and Aridea (Macedonia)]. Strates (in French). 10. 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 3: Ag. Vartholom, 200; R, P3; R = Refugiés, P = dialecte pontique"