Ieropigi (Greek: Ιεροπηγή, before 1927: Κοστενέτσι - Kostenetsi[2]) is a village in Kastoria Regional Unit, Macedonia, Greece.
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  Ieropigi | |
| Coordinates: 40°34′44″N 21°4′52″E / 40.57889°N 21.08111°E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Geographic region | Macedonia |
| Administrative region | Western Macedonia |
| Regional unit | Kastoria |
| Municipality | Kastoria |
| Municipal unit | Kastraki |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
| • Community | 253 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
The Greek census (1920) recorded 563 people in the village.[3] Following the Greek-Turkish population exchange, in 1926 within Kostenetsi there were 11 refugee families from Pontus.[3] The Greek census (1991) recorded 501 village inhabitants.[3] There were 12 refugee families (53 people) in 1928.[3]
By the 1950s, the Greek government assisted a group of nomadic transhumant Aromanians to settle in depopulated villages of the area like Ieropigi.[4] Aromanians are now the only inhabitants of the village.[4]
References edit
- ^ "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
- ^ "Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Kostenetsi – Ieropigi". Pandektis. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
- ^ a b c d Pelagidis, Efstathios (1992). Η αποκατάσταση των προσφύγων στη Δυτική Μακεδονία (1923-1930) [The rehabilitation of refugees in Western Macedonia: 1923-1930] (Ph.D.). Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. p. 77. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
- ^ a b Koukoudis, Asterios (2003). The Vlachs: Metropolis and Diaspora. Zitros Publications. p. 304. ISBN 9789607760869. "In the early 1950s, in an effort to repopulate the border areas, the state helped those wandering Arvanitovlachs to settle down in villages around the Prespa lakes; which is why we find Arvanitovlachs today in... Ieropiyi (Kostenetsi)... in Kastoria prefecture. In some of those villages, such as Ieropiyi... they are the only inhabitants."