Kolchiki Explained

Kolchiki
Name Local:Κολχική
Type:community
Coordinates:40.7389°N 21.4836°W
Periph:Western Macedonia
Periphunit:Florina
Municipality:Florina
Municunit:Perasma
Population As Of:2021
Population:175

Kolchiki (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Κολχική, before 1928: Πλησεβίτσα – Plisevitsa[1]) is a village in the Florina regional unit of Macedonia, Greece.

According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov, 700 Muslim Albanians lived in the village in 1900.[2] The Greek census (1920) recorded 563 people in the village and in 1923 there were 563 inhabitants (or 103 families) who were Muslim. Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, in Plisevitsa there were 92 refugee families from the Caucasus. The Greek census (1928) recorded 352 village inhabitants in 1926. In 1928 there were 95 refugee families (367 people) .[3]

Kolchiki had 315 inhabitants in 1981. In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Kolchiki was populated by a Greek population descended from Asia Minor Greek refugees who arrived during the population exchange. Pontic Greek was spoken in the village by people over 30 in public and private settings. Children understood the language, but mostly did not use it.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Institute for Neohellenic Research. Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Plisevitsa – Kolchiki. Pandektis. 18 February 2022.
  2. [Vasil Kanchov|Kanchov, Vasil]
  3. 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.
  4. 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: Kolchiki, 315; R, P2; R = Refugiés, P = dialecte pontique"