Komninades (, before 1927: Σιάκι – ''Siaki'';
)
is a village in
Kastoria Regional Unit,
Western Macedonia
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,
Greece
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.
Siaki 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
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).
The 1920 Greek census recorded 690 people in the village, and 683 inhabitants (95 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 Siaki went to
Turkey
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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 Siaki were from
Pontus
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* 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 254 inhabitants.
In 1928, the refugee families numbered 67 (266 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 1931.
References
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Populated places in Kastoria (regional unit)
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