Ieropigi Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Institute for Neohellenic Research. Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Kostenetsi – Ieropigi. Pandektis. 30 March 2022.
  2. 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. 77.
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  4. Alvanos. Raymondos. 2005. Κοινωνικές συγκρούσεις και πολιτικές συμπεριφορές στην περιοχή της Καστοριάς (1922–1949). Social conflicts and political behaviors in the area of Kastoria (1922–1949). Ph.D.. el. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. 16 June 2024. 516. "Ιεροπηγή, Πληθυσμός: 458, Σλαυόφωνοι: 400, Συνείδησις Βουλγαρική: ναι"
  5. Book: Koukoudis, Asterios. The Vlachs: Metropolis and Diaspora. 2003. Zitros Publications. 9789607760869. 304. "In the early 1950s, in an effort to repopulate the border areas, the state helped those wandering Arvanitovlachs to settle down in villages around the Prespa lakes; which is why we find Arvanitovlachs today in... Ieropiyi (Kostenetsi)... in Kastoria prefecture. In some of those villages, such as Ieropiyi... they are the only inhabitants."