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Peponia Πεπονιά
Community
Peponia
Coordinates: 40°17.5667′N 21°24.582′E / 40.2927783°N 21.409700°E / 40.2927783; 21.409700
Country	Greece
Administrative region	Western Macedonia
Regional unit	Kozani
Municipality	Voio
Municipal unit	Neapoli
Elevation	600 m (2,000 ft)
Population
• Community	48
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	500 01
Area code(s)	+30-2468
Vehicle registration	ΚΖ

Peponia (Greek: Πεπονιά, before 1927: Λάη – Lai), is a village and a community of the Voio municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of Neapoli, of which it was a municipal district. The 2021 census recorded 48 inhabitants in the village.

Lai was populated by Greek speaking Muslim Vallahades. In the 1900 statistics of Vasil Kanchov, where the town appears under its Bulgarian name "Laya", it was inhabited by some 300 "Greek Muslims".

The 1920 Greek census recorded 321 people in the village, and 250 inhabitants (60 families) were Muslim in 1923. Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, Greek refugee families in Lai were from East Thrace (26), Asia Minor (4) and Pontus (60) in 1926. The 1928 Greek census recorded 338 village inhabitants. In 1928, the refugee families numbered 88 (323 people).

References

1. ^ "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.
2. Institute for Neohellenic Research. "Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Lai – Peponia". Pandektis. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
3. ^ "ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities" (in Greek). Government Gazette.
4. Vakalopoulos, Apostolos E. (1973). History of Macedonia, 1354–1833. Institute for Balkan Studies. p. 347. ISBN 9780900834899.
5. Metoki, Athanasia (2016). Οι ελληνόφωνοι μουσουλμάνοι της Δυτικής Μακεδονίας: η περίπτωση των Βαλαάδων της Κοζάνης και των Γρεβενών [The Greek-speaking Muslims of Western Macedonia: The case of the Vallahades of Kozani and Grevena] (Masters) (in Greek). University of Macedonia. pp. 3, 13. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
6. Kanchov, Vasil, Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics, Sofia, 1900, book 2, p46. (in Bulgarian)
7. ^ Pelagidis, Efstathios (1992). Η αποκατάσταση των προσφύγων στη Δυτική Μακεδονία (1923–1930) [The rehabilitation of refugees in Western Macedonia: 1923–1930] (Ph.D.) (in Greek). Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. p. 82. Retrieved 26 August 2024.

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