Agios Vartholomaios Explained

Agios Vartholomaios
Type:community
Caption Skyline:Agios Vartholomaios village church
Coordinates:40.7608°N 21.5278°W
Periph:Western Macedonia
Periphunit:Florina
Municipality:Florina
Municunit:Perasma
Population As Of:2021
Population:157
Georegion:Macedonia

Agios Vartholomaios (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Άγιος Βαρθολομαίος, before 1926: Βαρθολώμ – Vartholom[1] renamed until 1928: Βαρθολομαίος – Vartholomaios[2]) is a village in Florina regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece.

According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov ("Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics"), 360 Muslim Albanians lived in the village in 1900.[3] The Greek census (1920) recorded 487 people in the village and in 1923 there were 447 inhabitants (or 80 families) who were Muslim. Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, in Vartholom there were refugee families from Asia Minor (3), Pontus (41) and the Caucasus (51) in 1926. The Greek census (1928) recorded 219 village inhabitants. In 1928 there were 94 refugee families (353 people).[4] The village mosque with a tall minaret was destroyed.[5]

Agios Vartholomaios had 200 inhabitants in 1981. 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. Pontic Greek was spoken by people over 60, mainly in private.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Institute for Neohellenic Research. Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Vartholom – Vartholomaios. Pandektis. 18 February 2022.
  2. Web site: Institute for Neohellenic Research. Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Vartholomaios – Agios Vartholomaios. Pandektis. 30 March 2022.
  3. [Vasil Kanchov|Kanchov, Vasil]
  4. Pelagidis. Efstathios. 1992. Η αποκατάσταση των προσφύγων στη Δυτική Μακεδονία (1923–1930). The rehabilitation of refugees in Western Macedonia: 1923–1930. Ph.D.. el. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. 30 March 2022. 74.
  5. 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. Ph.D.. el. University of Ioannina. 28 March 2022. 282.
  6. Van Boeschoten. Riki. 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). fr. Strates. 10. 2001. 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"