Korisos | |
Type: | community |
Coordinates: | 40.505°N 21.3769°W |
Periph: | Western Macedonia |
Periphunit: | Kastoria |
Municipality: | Kastoria |
Municunit: | Agioi Anargyroi |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population: | 902 |
Georegion: | Macedonia |
Korisos (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Κορησός, before 1919: Γκορένση – Gkorensi[1]) is a village in Kastoria Regional Unit, Macedonia, Greece. The community consists of the villages Korisos and Agios Nikolaos.
The Greek census (1920) recorded 1921 people in the village and in 1923 there were 650 inhabitants (or 75 families) who were Muslim. Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, in the village there were refugee families from East Thrace (5), Asia Minor (67) and Pontus (15) in 1926. The Greek census (1928) recorded 1468 village inhabitants. In 1928, there were 88 refugee families (358 people).[2]
In 1945, Greek Foreign Minister Ioannis Politis ordered the compilation of demographic data regarding the Prefecture of Kastoria.[3] The village Korisos had a total of 1552 inhabitants, and was populated by 775 Slavophones without a Bulgarian national consciousness.[4]