Megaplatanos (, before 1925: Μπίζοβο – ''Bizovo'')
is a village in
Pella 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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.
Megaplatanos had 382 inhabitants in 1981.
In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Megaplatanos was populated by a
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
population descended from Anatolian Greek refugees who arrived during 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 ...
, and
Slavophones.
The
Macedonian language
Macedonian ( ; , , ) is an Eastern South Slavic language. It is part of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family, and is one of the Slavic languages, which are part of a larger Balto-Slavic languages, Balto-Slavic branch. Sp ...
was spoken in the village by people over 30 in public and private settings.
Children understood the language, but mostly did not use it.
Pontic Greek
Pontic Greek (, ; or ''Romeika'') is a variety of Modern Greek indigenous to the Pontus region on the southern shores of the Black Sea, northeastern Anatolia, and the Eastern Turkish and Caucasus region. An endangered Greek language variety ...
was spoken in the village by people over 30 in public and private settings.
Children understood the language, but mostly did not use it.
Turkish
Turkish may refer to:
* Something related to Turkey
** Turkish language
*** Turkish alphabet
** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
*** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey
*** Turkish communities in the former Ottoman Empire
* The w ...
was possibly spoken by people over 60, mainly in private.
[ Table 1: Réfugiés grecs; Footnote 2: Le terme « réfugié » est utilisé ici pour désigner les Grecs d’Asie Mineure qui se sont établis en Grèce dans les années vingt après l’échange de population entre la Turquie et la Grèce (Traité de Lausanne, 1924); Table 4: Megaplatanos, 382; R, S, M2, P2, T3?; R = Refugiés, S = Slavophones, M = macédonien, P = dialecte pontique, T = turc"]
References
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Populated places in Pella (regional unit)
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