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 Greek census (1920) recorded 450 people in the village and in 1923 there were 350 inhabitants (or 97 families) who were Muslim.[4] Following the Greek-Turkish population exchange, in 1926 within Machalas there were refugee families from East Thrace (18), Asia Minor (12) and the Caucasus (30).[4] The Greek census (1928) recorded 430 village inhabitants.[4] There were 50 refugee families (213 people) in 1928.[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.
- ^ "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.). Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. p. 75. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
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