Kella (Greek: Κέλλα, before 1926: Γκορνίτσοβον – Gkornitsovon;[2] Bulgarian/Macedonian: Горничево, Gorničevo or Gornichevo) is a village in the Amyntaio municipality of the Florina regional unit, Greece.[3]
Kella
Κέλλα | |
|---|---|
 Gkornitsovo, 1919 | |
  Kella | |
| Coordinates: 40°47′N 21°41′E / 40.783°N 21.683°E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | Western Macedonia |
| Regional unit | Florina |
| Municipality | Amyntaio |
| Municipal unit | Amyntaio |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
• Community | 563 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
History
editThe village was first mentioned in an Ottoman defter of 1468, where it is listed under the name of Gorničevo and described as a small settlement of thirty households. A second defter of 1481 records that the number had increased by only three households.[4]
Around 1840, the land of the village was forcibly seized by the Muslim notable Ilyaz Pasha and it was turned into a homestead. Later, the local residents were able to redeem their property.[5]
In the book “Ethnographie des Vilayets d'Adrianople, de Monastir et de Salonique”, published in Constantinople in 1878, that reflects the statistics of the male population in 1873, Gornitchévo was noted as a village with 160 households, 522 Bulgarian and 50 Romani inhabitants.[6]
Following the Greek Civil War (1946–1949), the population decreased and 3–4 hundred families remained in the village.[7] Kella had 877 inhabitants in 1981.[8] In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Kella was populated by Slavophones.[8] The Macedonian language was used by people of all ages, both in public and private settings, and as the main language for interpersonal relationships.[8] Some elderly villagers had little knowledge of Greek.[8]
In the diaspora, villagers are located in Skopje (a hundred families), Toronto in Canada (over a hundred families) and higher numbers in Melbourne, Australia.[7] During the early years of the Macedonian naming dispute, internal splits occurred among the Kella community in Melbourne with the majority identifying as Macedonian and a minority as Greek.[9]
Notes
edit- ^ "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.
- ^ Institute for Neohellenic Research. "Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Gkornitsovon – Kella". Pandektis. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
- ^ Δημοτικό Διαμέρισμα Κέλλης. Δήμος Αμυνταίου (in Greek). Archived from the original on January 9, 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
- ^ Kravari, Vassiliki (1989). Villes et villages de Macédoine occidentale. Réalités byzantines (in French). Vol. 2. Paris: Editions P. Lethielleux. p. 263. ISBN 2-283-60452-4.
- ^ Дебърски глас, година 2, брой 32, 22 февруари 1911, с. 2. - "Завладяните по тоя начин села са имали нещастието дълго време да бъдат чифлигари. По-после селяните са били заставяни с терор да откупуват с пари от пашата собствените си имоти, усвоени насила от него. По същия начин са се откупили полските села в Дебърско - Макелари, Клабучища, както и селата в Битолско - Остроро, Угорничево, в Ресенско - ..."
- ^ Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г. Македонски научен институт, 1995. стр. 82-83. (in Bulgarian)
- ^ a b Danforth 1997, p. 9.
- ^ a b c d 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 3: Kelli, 877; S, M1; S = Slavophones, M = macédonien"
- ^ Danforth, Loring M. (1997). The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World. Princeton University Press. p. 9–10, 160. ISBN 9780691043579.
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