Английская Википедия:Greeks in North Macedonia
Greeks (Шаблон:Lang-mk Шаблон:IPA-mk) in North Macedonia form an ethnic minority numbering 294 individuals per 2021 census.[1]
Current status
Greeks are mainly settled now in the cities of Gevgelija (Шаблон:Lang-el, Gevgelī́) and Bitola (Шаблон:Lang-el, Monastī́ri).[2] Today most Greeks in the country are political refugees who fled Greece due to the Greek Civil War[3] and their descendants.[4] Ethnologue also cites Greek as an "immigrant language" in the Republic of North Macedonia.[5] In 2002, 422 individuals declared themselves as Greeks in the census.[6] The 2021 census recorded 294 individuals declaring their ethnicity as Greek.[1]
Alternative estimates
The Greek right-wing party Popular Orthodox Rally claims via questions presented in the Greek Parliament that there are more than 100,000 (up to 280,000) Greeks that now live in the country.[7] This number is not supported officially by the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to a Greek research, the Greek population of North Macedonia in 1996 made up 2% of the total population, consisting of approximately 42,000 individuals.[8]Шаблон:Unreliable source?Шаблон:Dubious
Aromanians
The controversy surrounding a Greek minority within the Republic of North Macedonia stems from the statistical treatment of Aromanian population groups in the country, who in their majority used to identify themselves as Greeks as part of the Rum millet.[9] A large number of Aromanians with Greek identity left the region after the Balkan Wars, with Florina in Greece witnessing the arrival of a large Greek-speaking commercial population from Monastiri (Bitola).[10] The present-day community is a remnant of the formerly larger Aromanian community of the part of Macedonia that fell within the borders of the Kingdom of Serbia after the Balkan Wars.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17] Today, the Aromanians in North Macedonia are an officially recognized minority group numbering ca. 10,000 people, although some estimates put this number higher.
Notable historical personalities
The following people were born during Ottoman times in what is today North Macedonia:
- Theodoros Adam, chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle
- Charalambos Boufidis, chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle
- Petros Christou (1887-1908), chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle
- Georgios Karaiskakis (-1910), chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle
- Evangelos Koukoudeas, chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle
- Dimitrios Lalas (1844/48-1911), composer and musician
- Georgios Modis (1887-1975), jurist, politician, writer and participant in the Macedonian Struggle
- Traianos Nallis (1874-?), politician
- Pantelis Papaioannou (c.1880-1907), chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle
- Theofylaktos Papakonstantinou (1905-1991), writer and politician
- Anastasios Pichion (1836-1913), educator and participant the Macedonian Struggle
- Michail Sapkas (1873-1956), politician and doctor
- Dimitrios Semsis (1883-1950), violinist
- Michael Sionidis (1870-1935), chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle
- Alexandros Svolos (1892-1956), President of Political Committee of National Liberation during WW2
- Dimitrios Tsapanos (1882 or 1883-), chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle
- Dimitrios Tsitsimis, chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle
- Georgios Vafopoulos (1903-1996), poet, writer, teacher and journalist
- Antonios Zois (1869-1941), chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle
See also
References
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