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Village in Western Macedonia, Greece From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Makrochori (Greek: Μακροχώρι, before 1928: Κωνομπλάτη – Konomplati;[2] Bulgarian and Macedonian: Кономлади, Konomladi), is a village of Kastoria regional unit in Western Macedonia, Greece.[3]
Makrochori | |
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Coordinates: 40°40′24″N 21°15′48″E | |
Country | Greece |
Geographic region | Macedonia |
Administrative region | Western Macedonia |
Regional unit | Kastoria |
Municipality | Kastoria |
Municipal unit | Korestia |
Elevation | 930 m (3,050 ft) |
Population (2021)[1] | |
• Community | 93 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
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 Livadopotamos , 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.[4]
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.[5]
In the Greek census of 1920 there were 1031 people in Konomplati and the Greek census of 1928 recorded 802 village inhabitants.[6] Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, there were 2 refugee families (11 people) in 1928.[6]
In 1945, Greek Foreign Minister Ioannis Politis ordered the compilation of demographic data regarding the Prefecture of Kastoria.[7] The village Makrochori had a total of 1031 inhabitants, and was populated by 1000 Slavophones with a Bulgarian national consciousness.[8]
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