Tropaiouchos (Greek: Τροπαιούχος, before 1929: Μαχαλάς – Machalas)[2] is a village in Florina regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece.
Tropaiouchos
Τροπαιούχος | |
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  Tropaiouchos | |
| Coordinates: 40°44′26″N 21°26′29″E / 40.74056°N 21.44139°E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Geographic region | Macedonia |
| Administrative region | Western Macedonia |
| Regional unit | Florina |
| Municipality | Florina |
| Municipal unit | Perasma |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
• Community | 291 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov ("Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics"), 600 Muslim Turks and 110 Muslim Albanians lived in the village in 1900.[3]
The 1920 Greek census recorded 450 people in the village, and 350 inhabitants (97 families) were Muslim in 1923.[4] Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, Greek refugee families in Machalas were from East Thrace (18), Asia Minor (12) and the Caucasus (30) in 1926.[4] The 1928 Greek census recorded 430 village inhabitants.[4] In 1928, the refugee families numbered 50 (213 people).[4]
References
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: Machalas – Tropaiouchos". Pandektis. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
- ^ Kanchov, Vasil, Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics, Sofia, 1900, book 2, p. 46 (in Bulgarian)
- ^ 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. 75. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
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