Ydroussa, Florina
The village in Ottoman Turkish was called Aşağı Kotor. In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, Kato Kottori was populated by 174 Christian Albanians and 600 Bulgarians. Kanchov wrote that Christian Albanians of the late Ottoman period in Kato Kottori were increasingly being assimilated by its Bulgarian population.
In the early twentieth century, Kato Kotori was involved with the Bulgarian national movement.
During the 1940s, kin relations began to be formed between the Slavophone (Dopioi) and Arvanite populations of the village. Villagers from both groups together attended school, partook in social events and looked after each other during the Second World War and Greek Civil War.
Ydroussa had 456 inhabitants in 1981. In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, (Kato) Ydroussa was populated by Slavophones and Arvanites. The Macedonian language was spoken in the village by people over 30 in public and private settings. Children understood the language, but mostly did not use it.
In the late 1990s, in fieldwork done by Ioannis Manos, much of the Ydroussa village population self identified as Dopioi, a designation used by Slavophones of the Florina region and the remainder as Arvanites. There were seldom elderly individuals with knowledge of Arvanitika.
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ Institute for Neohellenic Research. "Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Kato Kottori – Ydroussa". Pandektis. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
- ^ Krüger, Eberhard (1984). Die Siedlungsnamen Griechisch-Mazedoniens nach amtlichen Verzeichnissen und Kartenwerken [The settlement names of Greek Macedonia according to official indexes and maps]. Klaus Schwarz Verlag. p. 44. ISBN 9783112400661.
- ^ Aarbakke 2015, pp. 3-4.
- ^ Aarbakke, Vemund (2015). "The Influence of the Orthodox Church on the Christian Albanians' national orientation in the Period Before 1912" (PDF). Albanohellenica. 6: 4.
- ^ Clogg, Richard (2002). Minorities in Greece: Aspects of a Plural Society. Hurst. p. 155. ISBN 9781850657064.
- ^ Manos 2004, p. 134.
- ^ Van Boeschoten, Riki (2001). "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)]. Strates (in French). 10. Table 3: K. Idrousa, 456; S, A, M2; S = Slavophones, A = Arvanites, M = macédonien"
- ^ Manos, Ioannis (2004). "Signifying Self in Plural Cultural Contexts: Subjectivity, Power and Individual Agency in North-western Greek Macedonia". The Anthropology of East Europe Review. 22 (1): 125, 134, 136.