Psarades () is a village and a
community
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of the
Prespes municipality, northern
Greece
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.
Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of
Prespes
Prespes () is a municipality in the Florina regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. Its population in 2021 was 1,211. The seat of the municipality is in Laimos. It was named after Lake Prespa, in the western part of the municipality.
Municip ...
, of which it was a municipal district.
Name
The current name of the village, Psarades, means "fishermen" in Greek. Until 1927, Psarades was known as Nivitsa ().
In
Macedonian and in
Bulgarian it is known as Нивици; ''Nivici''/''Nivitsi'', meaning ''fields''.
[ "Нивици... Во селото и сега има Македонци... Името е топографско, примарно, рамно на дем. од нива (во sing. или pl). На грцки селото се вика Ψαράδες."]
History
At the end of the 19th century, Nivitsi was a predominantly Bulgarian village. In the Ethnography of the Adrianople, Monastir and Salonica villas, published in Constantinople in 1878 and reflecting the statistics of the 1873 male population, Nivitzi is referred to as a village in the
kaza
A kaza (, "judgment" or "jurisdiction") was an administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire, administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. It is also discussed in English under the names district, subdistrict, and juridical district. Kazas co ...
of
Resen with 30 households and 92 Bulgarians.
Another report, at the beginning of the 20th century, also stated that Nivitsi was a predominantly Bulgarian village. According to the statistics of
Vasil Kanchov
Vasil Kanchov (26 July 1862 – 6 February 1902) was a geographer, ethnographer and teacher who served as Minister of Education of Bulgaria.
Early life and education
Vasil Kanchov was born in Vratsa. Upon graduating from High school i ...
("Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics"), 200 Bulgarian Christians lived in the village in 1900.
After the
Ilinden Uprising in 1904, the whole village passed under the jurisdiction of the
Bulgarian Exarchate
The Bulgarian Exarchate (; ) was the official name of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church before its autocephaly was recognized by the Ecumenical See in 1945 and the Bulgarian Patriarchate was restored in 1953.
The Exarchate (a de facto autocephaly) ...
. According to the Exarchist secretary Dimitar Mishev (1906), there were 528 Bulgarian Exarchists in Nivitsi. The Bulgarian church "Virgin Mary" was built here in 1893.
Prespa agreement
On 17 June 2018, the Prime Ministers of Greece and the Republic of Macedonia signed an agreement at the village, aiming the end of the
Macedonia naming dispute
The use of the country name "Macedonia (terminology), Macedonia" was disputed between Greece and the North Macedonia, Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) between 1991 and 2019. The dispute was a source of instability in the Balkans#W ...
.
Greece and Macedonia sign agreement on name change
/ref> The Prespa Agreement took its name from homonymous lake, on the shores of which the village of Psarades was built.
Demographics
Psarades had 172 inhabitants in 1981.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.[ Table 3: Psarades, 172; S, M2; S = Slavophones, M = macédonien"]
The 2021 census recorded 73 inhabitants in the village.
See also
* List of settlements in the Florina regional unit
References
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Populated places in Florina (regional unit)
Prespes