Dipotamia (, before 1927: Ρέβανη – ''Revani'';
)
is a village and a community in
Kastoria Regional Unit,
Macedonia
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* North Macedonia, a country in southeastern Europe, known until 2019 as the Republic of Macedonia
* Macedonia (ancient kingdom), a kingdom in Greek antiquity
* Macedonia (Greece), a former administr ...
,
Greece
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. The community includes the villages Kali Vrysi and
Mesovracho
Mesovracho (, before 1927: Ζέλεγκραδ – ''Zelegkrad'') is a village in Kastoria Regional Unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. It is part of the community of Dipotamia.
The 1920 Greek census recorded 260 people in the village, and 230 inh ...
.
Revani was populated by
Albanian speaking Muslim inhabitants and they used to intermarry with the nearby Muslim villages of Menkulas, Vidohovë and Miras (now in
Albania
Albania ( ; or ), officially the Republic of Albania (), is a country in Southeast Europe. It is located in the Balkans, on the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea, and shares land borders with Montenegro to ...
).
The 1920 Greek census recorded 721 people in the village, and 673 inhabitants (85 families) were Muslim in 1923.
Following the
Greek–Turkish population exchange
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 involv ...
, the Muslim population of Revani went to
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
in 1924 and Anatolian Orthodox Christians settled in the village.
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 ( ...
families in Revani 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 ...
(130) in 1926.
The 1928 Greek census recorded 468 inhabitants.
In 1928, the refugee families numbered 128 (493 people).
After the population exchange, the site where the village mosque stood was replaced by the present church, the Assumption of the Virgin, built in 1925.
References
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Populated places in Kastoria (regional unit)
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