Karpero (, before 1927: Δημηνίτσα – ''Diminitsa'') is a village and a

community A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given g ...

of the Deskati municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of

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, 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 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 ...

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 Karpero were from

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(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: * Dimitra (population 306 as of 2021) *Karpero (population 457) Former villages: * Elafi

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{{Deskati div Populated places in Grevena (regional unit) Deskati

Administrative division

See also

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