Tropaiouchos

Tropaiouchos (Greek: Τροπαιούχος, before 1929: Μαχαλάς – Machalas)^[2] is a village in Florina regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece.

Tropaiouchos Τροπαιούχος
Community
Tropaiouchos
Coordinates: 40°44′26″N 21°26′29″E
Country	Greece
Geographic region	Macedonia
Administrative region	Western Macedonia
Regional unit	Florina
Municipality	Florina
Municipal unit	Perasma
Population  (2021)[1]
• Community	291
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov ("Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics"), 600 Muslim Turks and 110 Muslim Albanians lived in the village in 1900.^[3]

The 1920 Greek census recorded 450 people in the village, and 350 inhabitants (97 families) were Muslim in 1923.^[4] Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, Greek refugee families in Machalas were from East Thrace (18), Asia Minor (12) and the Caucasus (30) in 1926.^[4] The 1928 Greek census recorded 430 village inhabitants.^[4] In 1928, the refugee families numbered 50 (213 people).^[4]

References

1. "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
2. Institute for Neohellenic Research. "Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Machalas – Tropaiouchos". Pandektis. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
3. Kanchov, Vasil, Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics, Sofia, 1900, book 2, p. 46 (in Bulgarian)
4. Pelagidis, Efstathios (1992). Η αποκατάσταση των προσφύγων στη Δυτική Μακεδονία (1923–1930) [The rehabilitation of refugees in Western Macedonia: 1923–1930] (Ph.D.) (in Greek). Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. p. 75. Retrieved 30 March 2022.