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Λόφοι Ζαμπύρδανη | |
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| Settlement | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | West Macedonia |
| Regional unit | Florina |
| Municipality | Florina |
| Municipal unit | Meliti |
| Population | |
| • Rural | 445 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Lofoi (Template:Lang-el, Bulgarian and Macedonian Slavic: Забрдени, Zabrdeni) is a village in the Florina peripheral unit, Greece, located 15 km east of the city of Florina. It was previously known as Zaberdani, until it was renamed by Greek authorities in 1926.
History
Allegedly, it was first mentioned in an Ottoman defter of 1481, the village, then known as Zabrdani, had eighty households and produced vines, walnuts, and honey. In Ottoman tax registers of the non-Muslim population of the wilayah Filorine from 1626–1627, the village is marked under the name Zaburdani with 62 households.
The population of the village was under the supremacy of the Bulgarian Exarchate in the early 20th century. According to Dimitar Mishev, the secretary of the Exarchate, there were 344 Bulgarians in Zabrdani in 1905 and there was a Bulgarian school that functioned in the village.
Zabrdani was incorporated into Greece in 1913 after the Balkan Wars. The village was renamed Lofoi in 1926.
Demography
According to the 2001 census, the population of Lofi has been accounted to be 443 people. According to an EU-funded survey in 1993, the population of the village was exclusively Macedonian-speaking.
In 2009 there was an incident in Lofio between local ethnic Macedonians and the Greek military, during a military practise drill in the vicinity of the village. Roughly 200 villagers from Lofoi joined by 30 from Meliti and more from the villages of Kella and Vevi, protested successfully against the presence of the Greek military in the region.
References
- De Facto Population of Greece Population and Housing Census of March 18th, 2001 (PDF 39 MB). National Statistical Service of Greece. 2003.
- The Pandektis Research Institute of Greece
- Kravari, Vassiliki (1989). Villes et villages de Macédoine occidentale. Realites byzantines (in French). Vol. 2. Paris: Editions P. Lethielleux. p. 351. ISBN 2283604524.
- Турски извори за българската история, т. VII, София 1986, с. 333
- D.M.Brancoff. "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne". Paris, 1905, p.176-177.
- http://www.statistics.gr/portal/page/portal/ver-1/ESYE/BUCKET/A1602/Other/A1602_SAM01_TB_DC_00_2001_01_F_GR.pdf
- Riki Van Boeschoten (2001). "Usage des langues minoritaires dans les départements de Florina et d'Aridea (Macédoine)". Strates. 10.
- http://www.vreme.com.mk/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=1&tabid=1&EditionID=1529&ArticleID=100609
- The Macedonians in Ovcarani protest against the Greek tanks with Bells
| Subdivisions of the municipality of Florina | |
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| Municipal unit of Florina |
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| Municipal unit of Kato Kleines | |
| Municipal unit of Meliti | |
| Municipal unit of Perasma | |