Makrochori | |
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Coordinates: 40°40′24″N 21°15′48″E / 40.67333°N 21.26333°E | |
Country | Greece |
Geographic region | Macedonia |
Administrative region | Western Macedonia |
Regional unit | Kastoria |
Municipality | Kastoria |
Municipal unit | Korestia |
Elevation | 930 m (3,050 ft) |
Population (2021)
[1] | |
• Community | 93 |
Time zone | UTC+2 ( EET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+3 ( EEST) |
Makrochori ( Greek: Μακροχώρι, before 1928: Κωνομπλάτη - Konomplati; [2] Bulgarian and Macedonian: Кономлади, Konomladi), is a village of Kastoria regional unit in Western Macedonia, Greece. [3]
According to a local legend, the village was founded by three brothers who fled from the Ottoman Turks in the village of Tser.
The castle of Makrochori is located 4 km west of the village, is considered a large organized facility. The settlement developed on the bank of the present river Livadopotamos , reaches up to a point, its citadel, and hosted an important mining center of Orestis since in many places volumes of iron ore were found. [4]
A village in Petrich Municipality, Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria, is named Novo Konomladi ( Bulgarian: Ново Кономлади, "New Konomladi"). This is because it was mostly populated by Bulgarian refugees from Makrochori who moved to Bulgaria after the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913. [5]
In the Greek census of 1920 there were 1031 people in Konomplati and the Greek census of 1928 recorded 802 village inhabitants. [6] Following the Greek-Turkish population exchange, there were 2 refugee families (11 people) in 1928. [6]
In 1945, Greek Foreign Minister Ioannis Politis ordered the compilation of demographic data regarding the Prefecture of Kastoria. [7] The village Makrochori had a total of 1031 inhabitants, and was populated by 1000 Slavophones with a Bulgarian national consciousness. [8]
... by the new settlers of Novo Konomladi, the region of Blagoevgrad, who moved from Konomladi, the region of Kostur...
Makrochori | |
---|---|
Coordinates: 40°40′24″N 21°15′48″E / 40.67333°N 21.26333°E | |
Country | Greece |
Geographic region | Macedonia |
Administrative region | Western Macedonia |
Regional unit | Kastoria |
Municipality | Kastoria |
Municipal unit | Korestia |
Elevation | 930 m (3,050 ft) |
Population (2021)
[1] | |
• Community | 93 |
Time zone | UTC+2 ( EET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+3 ( EEST) |
Makrochori ( Greek: Μακροχώρι, before 1928: Κωνομπλάτη - Konomplati; [2] Bulgarian and Macedonian: Кономлади, Konomladi), is a village of Kastoria regional unit in Western Macedonia, Greece. [3]
According to a local legend, the village was founded by three brothers who fled from the Ottoman Turks in the village of Tser.
The castle of Makrochori is located 4 km west of the village, is considered a large organized facility. The settlement developed on the bank of the present river Livadopotamos , reaches up to a point, its citadel, and hosted an important mining center of Orestis since in many places volumes of iron ore were found. [4]
A village in Petrich Municipality, Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria, is named Novo Konomladi ( Bulgarian: Ново Кономлади, "New Konomladi"). This is because it was mostly populated by Bulgarian refugees from Makrochori who moved to Bulgaria after the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913. [5]
In the Greek census of 1920 there were 1031 people in Konomplati and the Greek census of 1928 recorded 802 village inhabitants. [6] Following the Greek-Turkish population exchange, there were 2 refugee families (11 people) in 1928. [6]
In 1945, Greek Foreign Minister Ioannis Politis ordered the compilation of demographic data regarding the Prefecture of Kastoria. [7] The village Makrochori had a total of 1031 inhabitants, and was populated by 1000 Slavophones with a Bulgarian national consciousness. [8]
... by the new settlers of Novo Konomladi, the region of Blagoevgrad, who moved from Konomladi, the region of Kostur...