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Elafi, Kozani
Elafi (, before 1928: Πινιάρ – ''Piniar'') was a village in Grevena Regional Unit, Macedonia, Greece. It was part of the community of Karpero. Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, Greek refugee families in Piniar were from Pontus Pontus or Pontos may refer to: * Short Latin name for the Pontus Euxinus, the Greek name for the Black Sea (aka the Euxine sea) * Pontus (mythology), a sea god in Greek mythology * Pontus (region), on the southern coast of the Black Sea, in modern ... (42) in 1926. The 1928 Greek census recorded 118 village inhabitants. In 1928, the refugee families numbered 41 (123 people). The village was abolished on 7 April 1951. See also * List of settlements in the Grevena regional unit References Populated places in Grevena (regional unit) Deskati {{WestMacedonia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Macedonia
Western Macedonia (, ) is one of the thirteen Regions of Greece, administrative regions of Greece, consisting of the western part of Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia. Located in north-western Greece, it is divided into the regional units of Greece, regional units of Florina (regional unit), Florina, Grevena (regional unit), Grevena, Kastoria (regional unit), Kastoria, and Kozani (regional unit), Kozani. With a population of approximately 255,000 people, as of 2021, the region had one of the highest unemployment rates in the European Union. Geography The region of Western Macedonia is situated in north-western Greece, bordering with the regions of Central Macedonia (east), Thessaly (south), Epirus (region), Epirus (west), and bounded to the north at the international borders of Greece with the Republic of North Macedonia (Bitola Municipality, Bitola, Resen Municipality, Resen and Novaci Municipality, Novaci municipalities) and Albania (Korçë County). Although it covers a total su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grevena (regional Unit)
Grevena (, ''Perifereiakí Enótita Grevenón'') is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the modern regions of Greece, region of Western Macedonia. Its capital is the town of Grevena. Geography Grevena borders the regional units of Ioannina (regional unit), Ioannina (Epirus (region), Epirus) to the west, Kastoria (regional unit), Kastoria to the northwest, Kozani (regional unit), Kozani to the north and east, Larissa (regional unit), Larissa to the southeast and Trikala (regional unit), Trikala to the south. The Pindus mountains cover the western part of the regional unit. Other mountain ranges are Chasia in the south and Vourinos in the northeast. The longest river is Aliakmon which flows in the north and the east. Administration The regional unit Grevena is subdivided into 2 municipalities. These are (number as in the map in the infobox): *Deskati (2) *Grevena (1) Prefecture Grevena was created as a prefectures of Greece, prefecture () in 1964, out of parts of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deskati
Deskati () is a mountainous municipality in the Grevena regional unit. The current municipality of Deskati was formed in 2011 by the merge of the former municipality of Deskati and the municipality of Chasia. The main economic activities in Deskati are farming and animal husbandry. Administrative division The municipality Deskati was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 2 former municipalities, that became municipal units (constituent communities in brackets): * Chasia ( Karpero, Katakali, Trikokkia) *Deskati (Deskati, Dasochori, Paliouria, Panagia, Paraskevi) The community of Deskati consists of 4 settlements: Agios Georgios, Deskati, Diasellaki and Gilofos. Geography Deskati is located in the southern slopes of Kamvounia mountain. It is surrounded by mountains covered with firs, pines and oaks. The highest summit near Deskati is Vounasia (alt. 1,615 m). The community of Deskati covers an area of 126.387 km2, the municipal unit 268. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chasia, Grevena
Chasia () is a former municipality in Grevena regional unit, West Macedonia, Greece. It takes its name from the Chasia mountains. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Deskati, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 1,304 (2021). The seat of the municipality was in Karpero Karpero (, before 1927: Δημηνίτσα – ''Diminitsa'') is a village and a community of the Deskati municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of Chasia, of which it was a municipal district. The 20 .... The municipal unit has an area of 162.692 km2. References Populated places in Grevena (regional unit) Former municipalities in Western Macedonia Deskati {{WMacedonia-geo-stub bg:Хасия (дем в Ном Гревена) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karpero
Karpero (, before 1927: Δημηνίτσα – ''Diminitsa'') is a village and a community of the Deskati municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of Chasia, of which it was a municipal district. The 2021 census recorded 763 inhabitants in the community. The community of Karpero covers an area of 78.072 km2. The 1920 Greek census recorded 274 people in the village. Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, Greek refugee families in Karpero were from Pontus Pontus or Pontos may refer to: * Short Latin name for the Pontus Euxinus, the Greek name for the Black Sea (aka the Euxine sea) * Pontus (mythology), a sea god in Greek mythology * Pontus (region), on the southern coast of the Black Sea, in modern ... (69) in 1926. The 1928 Greek census recorded 463 village inhabitants. In 1928, the refugee families numbered 68 (231 people). Administrative division The community of Karpero consists of two separate settlements: * Dimitr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macedonia (Greece)
Macedonia ( ; , ) is a geographic regions of Greece, geographic and former administrative region of Greece, in the southern Balkans. Macedonia is the largest and geographic region in Greece, with a population of 2.36 million (as of 2020). It is highly mountainous, with major urban centres such as Thessaloniki and Kavala being concentrated on its southern coastline. Together with Western Thrace, Thrace, along with Thessaly and Epirus (region), Epirus occasionally, it is part of Northern Greece. Greek Macedonia encompasses entirely the southern part of the wider Macedonia (region), region of Macedonia, making up 51% of the total area of that region. Additionally, it widely constitutes Greece's borders with three countries: Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia to the north, and Bulgaria to the northeast. Greek Macedonia incorporates most of the territories of ancient Macedonia (ancient kingdom), Macedon, a Greek kingdom ruled by the Argead Dynasty, Argeads, whose most ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the Geography of Greece, mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Sea of Crete and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin, spanning List of islands of Greece, thousands of islands and nine Geographic regions of Greece, traditional geographic regions. It has a population of over 10 million. Athens is the nation's capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras. Greece is considered the cradle of Western culture, Western civilisation and the birthplace of Athenian democracy, democracy, Western philosophy, Western literature, historiography, political science, major History of science in cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Population Exchange Between Greece And Turkey
The 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey stemmed from the "Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations" signed at Lausanne, Switzerland, on 30 January 1923, by the governments of Greece and Turkey. It involved at least 1.6 million people (1,221,489 Greek Orthodox from Asia Minor, Eastern Thrace, the Pontic Alps and the Caucasus, and 355,000–400,000 Muslims from Greece), most of whom were forcibly made refugees and ''de jure'' denaturalized from their homelands. On 16 March 1922, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Yusuf Kemal Tengrişenk stated that " e Ankara Government was strongly in favour of a solution that would satisfy world opinion and ensure tranquillity in its own country", and that " was ready to accept the idea of an exchange of populations between the Greeks in Asia Minor and the Muslims in Greece". Eventually, the initial request for an exchange of population came from Eleftherios Venizelos in a letter he submitted to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Refugee
Greek refugees is a collective term used to refer to the more than one million Greek Orthodox natives of Asia Minor, Thrace and the Black Sea areas who fled during the Greek genocide (1914-1923) and Greece's later defeat in the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), as well as remaining Greek Orthodox inhabitants of Turkey who were required to leave their homes for Greece shortly thereafter as part of the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, which formalized the population transfer and barred the return of the refugees. This Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations was signed in Lausanne, on January 30, 1923 as part of the peace treaty between Greece and Turkey and required all remaining Orthodox Christians in Turkey, regardless of what language they spoke, be relocated to Greece with the exception of those in Istanbul and two nearby islands. Although the term has been used in various times to refer to fleeing populations of Greek descent (primarily a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pontus (region)
Pontus or Pontos (; ,) is a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in the modern-day eastern Black Sea region of Turkey. The name was applied to the coastal region and its mountainous hinterland (rising to the Pontic Alps in the east) by the Greeks who colonized the area in the Archaic Greece, Archaic period and derived from the Greek name of the Black Sea: (), 'Hospitable Sea', or simply ''Pontos'' () as early as the Aeschylus, Aeschylean ''The Persians, Persians'' (472 BC) and Herodotus' ''Histories (Herodotus), Histories'' (). Having originally no specific name, the region east of the river Halys River, Halys was spoken of as the country ''()'', , and hence it acquired the name of Pontus, which is first found in Xenophon's ''Anabasis (Xenophon), Anabasis'' (). The extent of the region varied through the ages but generally extended from the borders of Colchis (modern western Georgia (country), Georgia) until well into Paphlagonia in the west, with varying amo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Settlements In The Grevena Regional Unit
This is a list of settlements in the Grevena regional unit, Greece. * Agalaioi * Agapi * Agioi Theodoroi * Agios Georgios, Grevena * Agios Georgios, Deskati * Agios Kosmas * Aidonia * Aimilianos * Alatopetra * Amygdalies * Anavryta * Ano Ekklisia * Anoixi * Anthrakia * Asprokampos * Avdella * Dasaki * Dasochori * Dasyllio * Deskati * Despotis * Diasellaki * Dimitra * Diporo * Dotsiko * Doxaras * Ekklisia * Elatos * Elefthero * Eleftherochori * Elefthero Prosfygon * Exarchos * Felli * Filippaioi * Georgitsa * Gilofos * Grevena * Itea * Kalamitsi * Kalirachi * Kallithea * Kalloni * Kalochi * Karpero * Kastro * Katakali * Kentro * Kipoureio * Kivotos * Klimataki * Knidi * Kokkinia * Kosmati * Kranea * Kydonies * Kyparissi * Kyrakali * Lavdas * Leipsi * Mavranaioi * Mavronoros * Megalo Seirini * Megaro * Mesolakkos * Mesolouri * Mikro Seirini * Mikrokleisoura * Mikrolivado * Milea * Monachiti * Myrsina * Nea Trapezounta * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Populated Places In Grevena (regional Unit)
Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and plants, and has specific uses within such fields as ecology and genetics. Etymology The word ''population'' is derived from the Late Latin ''populatio'' (a people, a multitude), which itself is derived from the Latin word ''populus'' (a people). Use of the term Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined feature in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species which inhabit the same geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where interbreeding is possible between any opposite-sex pair within the area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
