Agios Vartholomaios (Greek: Άγιος Βαρθολομαίος, before 1926: Βαρθολώμ – Vartholom,[2][3] between 1926–1928: Βαρθολομαίος – Vartholomaios)[4][3] is a village in Florina regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. The village has an altitude of 667 m (2,188 ft).[5]

French soldiers in front of village mosque (WWI).

In the late 15th century, the village was recorded as a timar holding with 26 families and as a settlement with a mixed population of Muslims and Christians.[6] Later, as a Muslim populated village it belonged to the kaza (district) of Florina.[6] According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov ("Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics"), 360 Muslim Albanians lived in the village in 1900.[7] The village was populated by 460 Muslims in 1912.[6] The 1920 Greek census recorded 487 people in the village, and 447 inhabitants (80 families) were Muslim in 1923.[8]

Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, Muslim villagers left and Christian refugees in 1924 from mainly Pontus and the Caucasus settled in the village.[6] Greek refugee families in Vartholom were from Asia Minor (3), Pontus (41) and the Caucasus (51) in 1926.[8] The 1928 Greek census recorded 219 village inhabitants.[8] In 1928, the refugee families numbered 94 (353 people).[8] The village mosque with a tall minaret was destroyed.[9] Since 1928, the inhabitants from the village are all from a Greek refugee origin.[6] The population of Agios Vartholomaios was 828 in 1940, 757 in 1951, 601 in 1961[5] and 200 in 1981.[10]

In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Agios Vartholomaios was populated by a Greek population descended from Anatolian Greek refugees who arrived during the population exchange.[10] Pontic Greek was spoken by people over 60, mainly in private.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
  2. ^ Institute for Neohellenic Research. "Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Vartholom – Vartholomaios". Pandektis. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  3. ^ a b Hellenic Agency for Local Development and Local Government. "Διοικητικές Μεταβολές των Οικισμών: Βαρτολώμ – Βαρθολωμαίος – Άγιος Βαρθολομαίος" [Administrative Changes of Settlements: Vartholom – Vartholomaios – Agios Vartholomaios]. EETAA (in Greek). Retrieved 20 February 2025.
  4. ^ Institute for Neohellenic Research. "Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Vartholomaios – Agios Vartholomaios". Pandektis. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  5. ^ a b Laiou, Angeliki E. (1987). "Population Movements in the Greek Countryside during the Civil War". In Bærentzen, Lars; Iatrides, John O.; Langwitz Smith, Ole (eds.). Studies in the History of the Greek Civil War, 1945–1949. Museum Tusculanum Press. p. 81. ISBN 9788772890043.
  6. ^ a b c d e Miska, Marialena Argyro (2020). Επώνυμοι Τόποι: Ονομασίες Οικισμών στην Περιοχή της Φλώρινας [Named Places: Names of Settlements in the Florina Region] (Master's thesis) (in Greek). University of Western Macedonia. pp. 55–56. Retrieved 20 February 2025.
  7. ^ Kanchov, Vasil, Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics, Sofia, 1900, book 2, p. 46 (in Bulgarian)
  8. ^ a b c d Pelagidis, Efstathios (1992). Η αποκατάσταση των προσφύγων στη Δυτική Μακεδονία (1923–1930) [The rehabilitation of refugees in Western Macedonia: 1923–1930] (PHD thesis) (in Greek). Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. p. 74. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  9. ^ Stavridopoulos, Ioannis (2015). Μνημεία του άλλου: η διαχείριση της οθωμανικής πολιτιστική κληρονομιάς της Μακεδονίας από το 1912 έως σήμερα [Monuments of the other: The management of the Ottoman cultural heritage of Macedonia from 1912 until present] (PHD thesis) (in Greek). University of Ioannina. p. 282. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  10. ^ a b c Van Boeschoten, Riki (2001). "Usage des langues minoritaires dans les départements de Florina et d'Aridea (Macédoine)" [Use of minority languages in the departments of Florina and Aridea (Macedonia)]. Strates (in French). 10. 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 3: Ag. Vartholom, 200; R, P3; R = Refugiés, P = dialecte pontique"
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agios_Vartholomaios
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