Ieropigi | |
Type: | community |
Coordinates: | 40.5789°N 21.0811°W |
Periph: | Western Macedonia |
Periphunit: | Kastoria |
Municipality: | Kastoria |
Municunit: | Kastraki |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population: | 253 |
Georegion: | Macedonia |
Ieropigi (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Ιεροπηγή, before 1927: Κοστενέτσι – Kostenetsi[1]) is a village in Kastoria Regional Unit, Macedonia, Greece. The community consists of the villages Ieropigi and Agios Dimitrios.
The Greek census (1920) recorded 563 people in the village. Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, in Kostenetsi there were 11 refugee families from Pontus in 1926. The Greek census (1928) recorded 501 village inhabitants. In 1928 there were 12 refugee families (53 people).[2]
In 1945, Greek Foreign Minister Ioannis Politis ordered the compilation of demographic data regarding the Prefecture of Kastoria.[3] The village Ieropigi had a total of 458 inhabitants, and was populated by 400 Slavophones with a Bulgarian national consciousness.[4]
By the 1950s, the Greek government assisted a group of nomadic transhumant Aromanians to settle in depopulated villages of the area like Ieropigi. Aromanians are now the only inhabitants of the village.[5]