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Foufas (Greek: Φούφας), known before 1927 as Paleochori (Greek: Παλαιοχώρι) and Paleor (Bulgarian: Палеор), is a village and a community of the Eordaia municipality.[2] Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of Mouriki, of which it was a municipal district.[2] The 2021 census recorded 444 inhabitants in the village.[1]

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History

In 1845 the Russian slavist Victor Grigorovich recorded Paliora as mainly Bulgarian village.[3] Stefan Verkovich, folklorist from Bosnia, noted in 1889 that there were 50 Bulgarian and 30 Turkish houses in Paleor.[4] On May 11, 1907 during an armed clash with the local villagers the captain from Hellenic Army Foufas (Zaharias Papadas), commander of a Greek paramilitary squad, was killed. In 1932 the village was renamed Foufas (Fufas) after the nickname of Captain Papadas.

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