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Vasileiada
Community in Macedonia, Greece From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vasileiada (Greek: Βασιλειάδα, before 1928: Ζαγοριτσάνη – Zagoritsani;[2] Macedonian and Bulgarian: Загоричани) is a village in Kastoria Regional Unit, Macedonia, Greece. The community consists of the villages Vasileiada, Agia Paraskevi and Verga.
Originally named Zagorichani, the village had a Slavic speaking population during Ottoman rule. After the rise of nationalism the locals were divided in pro-Bulgarian and pro–Greek community. During the struggle for Macedonia, many Bulgarian inhabitants were killed in 1905.[citation needed]
After Zagoritsani became part of Greece in 1913, the village mosque was demolished.[3] The 1920 Greek census recorded 1,105 inhabitants in the village.[4] Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, Greek refugee families in Zagoritsani were from Pontus (32) in 1926.[4] The 1928 Greek census recorded 735 village inhabitants.[4] In 1928, the refugee families numbered 33 (112 people).[4]
In 1945, Greek Foreign Minister Ioannis Politis ordered the compilation of demographic data regarding the Prefecture of Kastoria.[5] The village Vasileiada had a total of 1,136 inhabitants, and was populated by 910 Slavophones with a Bulgarian national consciousness.[6]
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Notable people
- Dimitar Blagoev (1856–1924), Bulgarian political leader and philosopher
- Anastas Yankov (1857–1906), Bulgarian Army officer
- Maslina Grancharova (1874–1958), Bulgarian teacher and revolutionary
References
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