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Aetos, Florina

Coordinates: 40°38′N 21°34′E / 40.633°N 21.567°E / 40.633; 21.567
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For the town in the Peloponnese, see Aetos, Messenia.
Aetos
Αετός
Municipal unit
Aetos is located in Greece
Aetos
Aetos
Location within the regional unit
Coordinates: 40°38′N 21°34′E / 40.633°N 21.567°E / 40.633; 21.567
CountryGreece
Administrative regionWest Macedonia
Regional unitFlorina
MunicipalityAmyntaio
Area
 • Municipal unit134.1 km2 (51.8 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)[1]
 • Municipal unit
2,239
 • Municipal unit density17/km2 (43/sq mi)
 • Community
668
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
530 73
Vehicle registrationΡΑ

Aetos (Greek: Αετός, also: Αϊτόζι, Aitozi;[2] Bulgarian: Айтос, Aytos;[3] Macedonian: Ајтос, Ajtos)[4] is a village and a former municipality in Florina regional unit, West Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Amyntaio, of which it is a municipal unit.[5] The municipal unit has an area of 134.092 km2.[6] It is 18 km southeast of Florina. In 2021 it had a population of 2,239.

The Greek name of the village Aetos is an animal based toponym derived from local wildlife present in the wider region.[7] The village has 4 churches dedicated each to either St. George, St. Paraskevi, St. Athanasius or the Archangel Michael.[8] A bear sanctuary is located nearby in the forest above the village for rescued (dancing) bears held in captivity.[9] The village celebrates the cultivation of local peppers with a annual Festival of Peppers held on September.[10]

The village originates in the 15th century.[2] It is first mentioned in an Ottoman defter of 1481, where it is described as a settlement of fifty-nine households which produced vines and walnuts.[11] In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, Aetos was populated by 950 Christian Bulgarians and 60 Romani.[12] In the aftermath of the Ilinden Uprising (1903) the Ottomans persecuted Exarchists.[13] In Aetos, villagers such as Orthodox notable Nikolaos Vannis and the priest Papa Alexis conspired with Ottoman authorities to trap and arrest the komitadji Aleksandar Turundzhev, a figure hostile to the Patriarchist cause.[13] In 1912, the village had 740 Exarchists and 60 Romani Patriarchists.[2] Several families from Aetos immigrated to Bulgaria following the post First World War Treaty of Neuilly.[2] The village had 920 inhabitants in 1928.[2]

Macedonian is spoken in Aetos.[14] In the late 1990s, the youth of Aetos had an impact on language shift within the home as they would alternate between two languages Greek and Slavic in the context of conversations (code-switching) with the elderly.[15] Academic Pierre Sintes was in the Florina area doing research in the early 2010s.[16] Sintes wrote Aetos was populated by Dopioi, (meaning locals or natives) a Greek term used for Slavophones of the region.[17]

Notable people

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References

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  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. ^ a b c d e Miska, Marialena Argyro (2020). Επώνυμοι Τόποι: Ονομασίες Οικισμών στην Περιοχή της Φλώρινας [Named Places: Names of Settlements in the Florina Region] (Master's thesis) (in Greek). University of Western Macedonia. p. 57. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  3. ^ Traykov, Veselin (1993). История на българската емиграция в Северна Америка: От началото ѝ през средата на XIXв. до 80–те години на XX век [History of Bulgarian Emigration to North America: From its beginning in the mid–19th century to the 1980s] (in Bulgarian). St. Kliment Ohridski University Press. pp. 32, 150. ISBN 9789540702063.
  4. ^ Dorovský, Ivan (1998). Makedonci žijí mezi námi [Macedonians live among us] (in Czech). Brno: Masaryk University. p. 38. ISBN 9788021017047. "Ajtos (Aetós)"
  5. ^ "ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities" (in Greek). Government Gazette.
  6. ^ "Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)" (PDF) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-21.
  7. ^ Miska 2020, p. 44, 85.
  8. ^ Moutsopoulos, Nikolaos K. (1966). The Churches of the Prefecture of Florina. Institute for Balkan Studies. p. 45. ISSN 0440-7601.
  9. ^ Lane Fox, R. (2011). "Dating the Royal Tombs at Vergina". In Lane Fox, Robin J. (ed.). Brill's Companion to Ancient Macedon: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Macedon, 650 BC – 300 AD. Brill. p. 14. ISBN 9789004209237.
  10. ^ "Οι γιορτες της πατάτας και της πιπεριάς στον Αετό της Φλώρινας" [The potato and pepper festivals in Aetos of Florina]. In Magazine (in Greek). Alter Ego Media. 27 January 2010. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  11. ^ Kravari, Vassiliki (1989). Villes et villages de Macédoine occidentale. Réalités byzantines (in French). Vol. 2. Paris: Editions P. Lethielleux. p. 231. ISBN 2-283-60452-4.
  12. ^ Kanchov, Vasil (1970). "Македония, Етнография и статистика" [Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics]. In Hristov, Hristo A. (ed.). Избрани произведения [Selected works] (in Bulgarian). Vol. 2. Nauka i Izkustvo. p. 550. "Айтосъ; Българи Хр. 950, Цигани. 60"
  13. ^ a b Michailidis, Iakovos D. (2000). "On the Other Side of the River: The Defeated Slavophones and Greek History". In Cowan, Jane K. (ed.). Macedonia: The Politics of Identity and Difference. Pluto Press. p. 68. ISBN 9780745315898.
  14. ^ Македонска библиографија: Монографски публикации [Macedonian Bibliography: Monographic Publications] (in Macedonian). Vol. 1–2. Skopje: Narodna i univerzitetska biblioteka "Kliment Ohridski". 1998. p. 128. "Македонски јазик - Говори, локални - Ајтос"
  15. ^ Voss, Christian (2005). "The Situation of the Slavic Speaking Minority in Greek Macedonia – Ethnic Revival, Cross-Border Cohesion, or Language Death?". In Helmedach, Andreas; Höpken, Wolfgang; Maner, Hans–Christian (eds.). Jahrbücher für Geschichte und Kultur Südosteuropas [History and Culture of South Eastern Europe]. Minorities in Greece – Historical Issues and New Perspectives. Vol. 5. Slavica Verlag. p. 182. ISSN 1617-5581. "First, it is the typically role of the children to impose the language shift at home. 34. footnote 34. In typical code switching "esti, babo zaš lafosvaš horijatika? ("grandmother, why do you speak this rustic language?"); cf. Lazar Minkov-Bodancki, Материјали од говорот на село Ајтос [Materials from the dialect of Aetos]. Skopje 1998, 145."
  16. ^ Sintès 2019, pp. 3, 156.
  17. ^ Sintès, Pierre (2019). Chasing the Past: Geopolitics of Memory on the Margins of Modern Greece. Liverpool University Press. p. 157. ISBN 9781786948496. "The panorama needs a little presenting: Xino Nero, Amyndeo and Aetos harbour the ντόπιοι ('natives' or 'locals' i.e. Slavic - speakers in this region)"


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