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Many inhabited places in Xanthi Prefecture of Greece had older Greek and non-Greek forms. Most of those names were in use during the multinational environment of the Ottoman Empire, which controlled the region until the Balkan Wars on 1912–1913. Some of the forms were identifiably of Greek origin, others of Turkish, of Slavic and of more obscure origins. Following the First World War and the Greco-Turkish War which followed, an exchange of population took place between Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkey (the Treaty of Neuilly between Greece and Bulgaria and the Treaty of Lausanne between Greece and Turkey). The villages of the exchanged populations (Bulgarians and Muslims) in Greece were resettled with Greek refugees from Asia Minor and local Macedonian Greeks.

The Greek government renamed many places with revived ancient names, local Greek-language names, or translations of the non-Greek names.:

  Slavic language
  Turkish language

References

1. Todor Hristov Simovski, The Inhabited Places of the Aegean Macedonia (Skopje 1998), ISBN 9989-9819-4-9, pp. XXXVIII-XLII.
2. Vlassis Vlasidis - Veniamin Karakostanoglou. "Recycling Propaganda: Remarks on Recent Reports on Greece's "Slav-Macedonian Minority"". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
3. The Slavic is in the Bulgarian alphabet; various Romanization schema would render "ch" as "č", "sh" as "š", "zh" as "ž", and "ts" as "c".
4. All citations are to Todor Hristov Simovski, The Inhabited Places of the Aegean Macedonia (Skopje 1998), ISBN 9989-9819-4-9
5. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-18. Retrieved 2009-03-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link).(in Greek) Data from the 2001 census, at the National Statistical Service of Greece (ΕΣΥΕ), www.statistics.gr

External links

• "Pandektis: Name Changes of 52 Settlements in Xanthi". Retrieved 2016-11-30. List compiled by the Institute for Neohellenic Research

• Xanthi (regional unit)
• Lists of former place names in Greece
• Place names of Turkish origin in Greece