Agios Athanasios, Pella
Agios Athanasios
Άγιος Αθανάσιος | |
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  Agios Athanasios | |
| Coordinates: 40°50′N 21°47′E / 40.833°N 21.783°ECoordinates: 40°50′N 21°47′E / 40.833°N 21.783°E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | Central Macedonia |
| Regional unit | Pella |
| Municipality | Edessa |
| Municipal unit | Vegoritida |
| Community | |
| • Population | 518 (2011) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Agios Athanasios (Greek: Άγιος Αθανάσιος, before 1926: Τσεγάνη, Tsegani;,[2] Bulgarian/Macedonian: Чеган, Chegan) is a village in the Pella regional unit of Macedonia, Greece. The village is located north of Lake Vegoritida within the Vegoritida municipal unit which belongs to the municipality of Edessa.
History[]
In the book "Ethnographie des Vilayets d'Adrianople, de Monastir et de Salonique", published in Constantinople in 1878, that reflects the statistics of the male population in 1873, Tchegantche was noted as a village with 124 households and 547 Bulgarian inhabitants.[3]
In 1900, Vasil Kanchov gathered and compiled statistics on demographics in the area and reported that the village of Chegan was inhabited by about 750 Bulgarian Christians.[4]
In August 1916 Bulgarian and Serbian forces fought near the village during the Chegan Offensive.
References[]
- ^ a b "Απογραφή Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2011. ΜΟΝΙΜΟΣ Πληθυσμός" (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority.
- ^ Name changes of settlements in Greece
- ^ Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г." Македонски научен институт, 1995. стр. 158-159. (in Bulgarian)
- ^ Vasil Kanchov (1900). Кънчов, Васил. Македония. Етнография и статистика, София, 1900, с. 149. (Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics, p. 149. Accessed 25 May 2019 (in Bulgarian)
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