| Makrochori | |
| Type: | community |
| Coordinates: | 40.6733°N 21.2633°W |
| Elevation: | 930 |
| Periph: | Western Macedonia |
| Periphunit: | Kastoria |
| Municipality: | Kastoria |
| Municunit: | Korestia |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population: | 93 |
| Georegion: | Macedonia |
Makrochori (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Μακροχώρι, before 1928: Κωνομπλάτη – Konomplati;[1] Bulgarian and Macedonian: Кономлади, Konomladi), is a village of Kastoria regional unit in Western Macedonia, Greece.[2]
According to a local legend, the village was founded by three brothers who fled from the Ottoman Turks in the village of Tser.
The castle of Makrochori is located 4 km west of the village, is considered a large organized facility. The settlement developed on the bank of the present river, reaches up to a point, its citadel, and hosted an important mining center of Orestis since in many places volumes of iron ore were found.[3]
A village in Petrich Municipality, Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria, is named Novo Konomladi (Bulgarian: Ново Кономлади, "New Konomladi"). This is because it was mostly populated by Bulgarian refugees from Makrochori who moved to Bulgaria after the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913.[4]
In the Greek census of 1920 there were 1031 people in Konomplati and the Greek census of 1928 recorded 802 village inhabitants. Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, there were 2 refugee families (11 people) in 1928.[5]
In 1945, Greek Foreign Minister Ioannis Politis ordered the compilation of demographic data regarding the Prefecture of Kastoria.[6] The village Makrochori had a total of 1031 inhabitants, and was populated by 1000 Slavophones with a Bulgarian national consciousness.[7]