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Voio (municipality)
Voio () is a municipality in the Kozani (regional unit), Kozani regional unit, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Siatista. It was named after the Voio mountains. The municipality has an area of 1007.629 km2. Its population at the 2021 census was 14,947. Name In the mid 1990s, Upper (Ano) and Lower (Kato) Voio, derived from Mount Voios were geographic terms spread by the Research Association of Ano Voios for use to describe the wider region. Another name Kastanochoria, referring to an abundance of local chestnut trees, also signified villages which received no Greek refugee populations following the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey, Greek–Turkish population exchange. The Ottoman era name Anaselitsa, derived from a local village Seltsa (modern Eratyra) was used until the late 1920s for the wider area when Geographical name changes in Greece, official geographic name changes made it obsolete. Municipality The municipality Voio was formed at the 2 ... [...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] |
Askio, Kozani
Askio (Greek: Άσκιο) is a former municipality in Kozani regional unit, West Macedonia, 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 th .... Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Voio, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 196.636 km2. The 2021 census recorded 3,070 residents in Askio. The seat of the municipality was in Kaloneri. It was named after the Askio mountain range which covers most of the municipal unit. References Former municipalities in Western Macedonia Populated places in Kozani (regional unit) Voio (municipality) {{WMacedonia-geo-stub bg:Синяк (дем) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Populated Places In Kozani (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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Western Macedonia
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the governing body of a given municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district. The English word is derived from French , which in turn derives from the Latin , based on the word for social contract (), referring originally to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy). A municipality can be any political jurisdiction, from a sovereign state such as the Principality of Monaco, to a small village such as West Hampton Dunes, New York. The territory over which a munici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces Of Greece
The provinces of Greece (, "eparchy") were sub-divisions of some the country's prefectures of Greece, prefectures. From 1887, the provinces were abolished as actual administrative units, but were retained for some state services, especially financial and educational services, as well as for electoral purposes. Before the Second World War, there were 139 provinces, and after the war, with the addition of the Dodecanese, Dodecanese Islands, their number grew to 148. According to the Article 7 of the Code of Prefectural Self-Government (Presidential Decree 30/1996), the provinces constituted a "particular administrative district" within the wider "administrative district" of the prefectures. The provinces were finally abolished after the 2006 Greek local elections, 2006 local elections, in line with Law 2539/1997, as part of the wide-ranging administrative reform known as the "Kapodistrias reform, Kapodistrias Project", and replaced by enlarged Municipalities and communities of G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsotyli
Tsotyli (, also Τσοτίλι - ''Tsotili'') is a village and former municipality currently part of the Voio municipality. Prior to 2011 local government reforms, it was the seat of the municipality of Tsotyli. The municipal unit has an area of 330.269 km2, the community 25.658 km2. The 2021 census recorded 1,453 residents in the village, and 2,619 residents in the municipal unit of Tsotyli. It is a notable western Greek area, in part for its ancient housing estate (oikotrofeio). The community consists of the villages Tsotyli, Rokastro and the former village Nea Sparti. Tsotyli was a mixed village and a part of its population were Greek speaking Muslim Vallahades. The 1920 Greek census recorded 959 people in the village, and 400 inhabitants (100 families) were Muslim in 1923. Historian Apostolos Vakalopoulos wrote Tsotyli had 40 Christian families and 150 Vallahades families. Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, Greek refugee families in Tsotyli were from East Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pentalofos, Kozani
Pentalofos (, before 1927: Ζουπάνιον – ''Zoupanion'', between 1927 and 1928: Πετρόβουνος – ''Petrovounos''), is a village and a former community in Kozani regional unit, Western Macedonia, 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 th .... Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Voio, of which it is a municipal unit. It is located at 1060 meters elevation to the base of mountain Voio. The municipal unit has an area of 83.923 km2, the community 38.113 km2. The population of the municipal unit was 367 people, while the population of the community itself was 272 people as of 2021. Name The village toponym Zoupan is Slavic and referred to particular hierarchies such as the head of a unit. Zoupan is the villa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neapoli, Kozani
Neapoli (, before 1928: Λειψίστα – ''Leipsista''), is a town in the Kozani regional unit of West Macedonia in northern Greece. A former municipality, it has been a municipal unit of Voio since the 2011 local government reform. The municipal unit has an area of 238.277 km2, the community 22.001 km2. The municipal unit has a population of 3,246 while the community has 2,063 inhabitants (2021). The community consists of the town Neapoli and village Melidoni. Name An original name of modern Neapoli was Lapsista (Λαψίστα). Linguist Max Vasmer states the toponym was ''Lěvšišče'' and cognate with the Serbo–Croatian ''Lepšić'', a personal name derived from the Slavic word ''lěp'' meaning "nice". Linguist Yordan Zaimov associated the toponym Lapsista with the Bulgarian toponym Lapšišta, deriving both from ''Lubčište'' in reference to a personal name formed from ''Lubko'', with ''bč'' in Slavic rendered as ''ps'' (ψ) in Greek. Linguist Konst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geographical Name Changes In Greece
The Greek state has systematically pursued a policy of Hellenisation following its independence from the Ottoman Empire in the early 1830s. This ideology included replacing all geographical and topographic names with revived names rooted in Classical Greece – that is, any name deemed foreign, divisive against Greek unity, or considered to be "bad Greek" was hidden or assimilated. The names that were considered foreign were usually of Albanian language, Albanian, Eastern South Slavic, Slavic or Turkish language, Turkish origin. Byzantine Greek was considered bad Greek at the time of the establishment of the state until well after the Balkan Wars; accordingly those places were also renamed. The aim of the name changes was to cover the memory of the "dark past": meaning Roman, Frankish, Venetian, and especially Turkish rule. The name changes followed the territorial expanses of Greece and continued into the Greek Republic. They occurred in the Arvanite settlements in central Greec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kozani (regional Unit)
Kozani () is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Western Macedonia, in the geographic region of Macedonia. Its capital is the city of Kozani. Geography Kozani borders the regional units of Kastoria to the west and northwest, Florina to the north, Pella to the northeast, Imathia and Pieria to the east, Larissa (part of Thessaly) to the southeast, and Grevena to the south. The main mountain ranges are Askio in the northwest, Voio in the west, Vermio in the northeast and the Pierian Mountains in the southeast. The river Aliakmon flows through the southern part, and through the large reservoir Lake Polyfytos. Lignite is mined in the north, around Ptolemaida. Climate Its climate ranges from continental to mountainous. Kozani has warm to hot summers and cool winters, cooler than Thessaloniki, the mountainous, the western and the eastern portions receive cold winters and features snow. Its sunshine days are days shorter than the south and b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eratyra
Eratyra (, before 1927: Σέλιτσα – ''Selitsa'', between 1927 and 1928: Κατωχώριον – ''Katochorion''), is a village and a community of the Voio municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of Askio, of which it was a municipal district. The 2021 census recorded 738 inhabitants in the village. The community of Eratyra covers an area of 56.381 km2. The local village name Seltsa was the basis of the toponym Anaselitsa for the Ottoman province and used until the late 1920s. The 1920 Greek census recorded 1,935 people in the village. Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, Greek refugee families in Selitsa were from East Thrace (3) in 1926. The 1928 Greek census recorded 2,359 village inhabitants. In 1928, the refugee families numbered 3 (7 people). See also * List of settlements in the Kozani regional unit This is a list of settlements in the Kozani regional unit, Greece. * Achladia * Agia Kyriaki * ... [...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] |
