Mandres (Greek: Μάνδρες, Bulgarian: Хамбаркьой) is a village South of the City of Kilkis in the Kilkis regional unit, Greece. It is part of the municipal unit Gallikos and has a population of 385 people (2021). Until 1926, Mandres was known as Ampar Kioi (Greek: Αμπάρ Κιόι).[2] The name was also written as Ambar Köy.[3]
Mandres
Μάνδρες | |
|---|---|
  Mandres | |
| Coordinates: 40°59′N 22°52′E / 40.983°N 22.867°E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | Central Macedonia |
| Regional unit | Kilkis |
| Municipality | Kilkis |
| Municipal unit | Gallikos |
| Elevation | 100 m (300 ft) |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
• Community | 385 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 611 00 |
| Area code(s) | 23410 |
| Vehicle registration | NI, ΚΙ* |
History
editAmbar Koy was mainly a Slavic speaking settlement and its population intermarried with other Slavic speaking villages in the area.[4] In the early 1900s, Vasil Kanchov stated that the local population was composed of 300 Bulgarians and 66 Turks, whereas Hilmi Pasha described the village as inhabited only by 195 Bulgarians.[5] During the period of the Balkan Wars, the Greek army destroyed the settlement[5] and it was repopulated by people from the village of Mandritsa in Bulgaria.[6] Until World War II, relatives from both villages would visit each other.[6]
In the 1980s only middle aged and elderly generations within the village had knowledge of an Albanian dialect.[7] The Mandres Albanian dialect is similar to that of Mandritsa and sharply differs from other varieties of the Albanian language.[7][8][3] For example the gender system (masculine and feminine) present in all varieties of Albanian has disappeared from the Mandres Albanian dialect due to influence from the Turkish language when the population in the past lived near Turkey.[9]
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.
- ^ "Πανδέκτης: Nivitsa -- Mandres". Retrieved 2019-05-22. Pandektis: Name Changes of Settlements in Greece, compiled by the Institute for Neohellenic Research
- ^ a b Friedman, Victor A. (1994). "Slavic-Albanian Contacts and Early Polyglot Lexicons: The Albanian Lexicon of the Monk Arkádïi, A Mid-Nineteenth Century Manuscript from the Hilendar Monastery on Mount Athos" (PDF). Slavia meridionalis: Studia linguistica, slavica et balcanica. 1: 146.
- ^ Karakasidou, Anastasia N. (1997). Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia. University of Chicago Press. p. 40. ISBN 9780226424996.
- ^ a b Michailidis, Iakovos D. (2007). "Population Shifts in Contemporary Greek Macedonia". In Koliopoulos, Ioannis (ed.). The History of Macedonia (PDF). Museum of the Macedonian Struggle. p. 361.
- ^ a b Alatis, James E. (1978). International Dimensions of Bilingual Education. Georgetown University Press. p. 157. ISBN 9780878401130.
- ^ a b Hamp, Eric (1992). "On signs of health and death". In Dorian, Nancy C. (ed.). Investigating obsolescence: Studies in language contraction and death. Cambridge University Press. p. 209. ISBN 9780521437578.
- ^ Hamp, Eric (1992). "Albanian". In Gvozdanović, Jadranka (ed.). Indo-European Numerals. Mouton de Gruyter. p. 883. ISBN 9783110113228.
- ^ Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. (2016). How gender shapes the world. Oxford University Press. p. 87. ISBN 9780198723752.