Karyes, Florina Explained

Karyes
Name Local:Καρυές
Type:community
Coordinates:40.7611°N 21.1489°W
Periph:West Macedonia
Periphunit:Florina
Municipality:Prespes
Municunit:Prespes
Population As Of:2021
Population:60

Karyes (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Καρυές, before 1920: Όροβνικ – Orovnik[1]) is a village in the Florina Regional Unit in West Macedonia, Greece.

Demographics

In the early 1900s, 150 Slavonic speaking Christians lived in the village. During the Greek Civil War, the Greek refugee population living in nearby Pyli fled to Karyes.[2] By the 1950s, the Greek government assisted a group of nomadic transhumant Aromanians, known as the Arvanitovlachs, to settle in depopulated villages of the Prespa region like Karyes.[3] In the early 1970s, the population of Aromanians and Greeks in the village was more numerous than the Macedonian speaking people.[4]

Karyes had 63 inhabitants in 1981. In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Karyes was populated by a Greek population descended from Anatolian Greek refugees who arrived during the Greek-Turkish population exchange.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Institute for Neohellenic Research. Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Orovnik – Karyai. Pandektis. 30 March 2022.
  2. Book: Włodzimierz, Pianka. Toponomastikata na Ohridsko-Prespanskiot bazen. 1970. Institut za makedonski jazik "Krste Misirkov". 140. "Винени... Просвиги кои за време на граѓанската војна избегале во с. Оромник."
  3. Book: Koukoudis, Asterios. The Vlachs: Metropolis and Diaspora. 2003. Zitros Publications. 9789607760869. 304.
  4. "Оромник... Во 1900 година год. имал ок. 150 жит. M. Сега има повеќе Власи и Грци отколку Македодци."
  5. 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: Karies, 63; R; R = Refugiés"