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Trivouno | |
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Settlement | |
 Village church | |
  Trivouno Location within Greece | |
| Coordinates: 40°44′25″N 21°17′55″E / 40.74028°N 21.29861°E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | Western Macedonia |
| Regional unit | Florina |
| Municipality | Florina |
| Municipal unit | Florina |
| Community | Simos Ioannidis |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Trivouno (Greek: Τρίβουνο, before 1927: Τύρσια – Tyrsia;[1][2] Bulgarian: Търсие, Tarsie;[3] Macedonian: Трсје, Trsje)[4] was a village in Florina Regional Unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. Situated at an altitude of 1,156 m (3,793 ft), the abandoned village is located 15 kilometres south–west from Florina.[4][5][6] Trivouno was located in the Korestia area and situated in mountainous terrain.[7] It was part of the community of Simos Ioannidis.
History
[edit]Tyrsia was a Slavic–Macedonian village.[8] The inhabitants were Christian and belonged to the Bulgarian Exarchate.[5] Due to its mountainous location, Tyrsia experienced poverty and gurbet (economic migration).[8] In the 19th century, the first village school was established by Father Gerasim, an Exarchist priest.[9] Following the Ilinden Uprising (1903), economic migration from the village changed toward a transatlantic direction and over time its population of youth decreased.[10] Immigrants from Tyrsia in Toronto, Canada participated in the early Bulgarian community to build church infrastructure.[11] The village population numbered 900 in 1912.[5]
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War and new borders severed the wider area from the economic centres of Bitola and Korçë, leaving only Thessaloniki.[10] Tyrsia had some pro–Bulgarian supporters and the Greek state viewed the village with suspicion.[10] People from Tyrsia fought in Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) in Anatolia and in Albania.[10] The village population numbered 650 in 1928[5] and 629 in 1940.[6] Reliant on agricultural activities and some remittances from immigrants abroad, the average yearly family income of the village in the late interwar period was 10,700 drachmas.[7]
In World War Two, Trivouno was on the borderline of the Italian and German occupation zones in Greece.[12] The first guerrilla fighters in the village originated from the Bitola area.[12] During 1943, the National Liberation Front (EAM), a Greek resistance organisation controlled Trivouno and by mid–1944, they recognised a Slavic–Macedonian presence.[12] Throughout the conflict, inhabitants experienced difficult living circumstances, a black market economy formed and Italian troops stole local poultry.[12] Community tensions emerged as some villagers supported either the Bulgarian or Greek–Monarchist causes.[12] The village was a centre for Komitadjis and the majority of its inhabitants were pro–Bulgarian.[13] A recruitment drive promising Macedonian autonomy by Yugoslav partisans in the area resulted in 8 villagers joining their movement in early 1944.[13]
In the Greek Civil War, the village was occupied by the Democratic Army of Greece (DAG).[14] Many people joined DAG during the civil war and in mid–1947, Greek government forces razed Trivouno.[15] Villagers became dispersed, while 115 children were evacuated to Yugoslavia and other Eastern Bloc countries with some family reunions occurring 20 years later.[15] The defeat of DAG made many inhabitants go into exile, either to Yugoslav Macedonia or Soviet Uzbekistan.[15] Several villagers were arrested by the Greek government and given either long or life prison sentences and others the death penalty for assisting communist forces.[16] In 1951, Trivouno had 284 people.[6]
Difficult economic circumstances made the remaining population immigrate to either Canada or Australia and settle among earlier migrants from the village who left in the 1930s.[15] Trivouno had 229 inhabitants in 1961.[6] For reasons of development and security, the Greek government during the late 1960s forcibly relocated the remaining inhabitants to the neighbourhoods of Florina.[15][17] The Greek census of 1991 recorded 2 people in Trivouno.[15]
References
[edit]- ↑ Institute for Neohellenic Research. "Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Tyrsia – Trivouno". Pandektis. Retrieved 16 February 2025.
- ↑ Hellenic Agency for Local Development and Local Government. "Διοικητικές Μεταβολές των Οικισμών: Τύρσια – Τρίβουνο" [Administrative Changes of Settlements: Tyrsia – Trivouno]. EETAA (in Greek). Retrieved 16 February 2025.
- ↑ Gardev, Kostadin (1994). Българска емиграция в Канада [Bulgarian emigration to Canada] (in Bulgarian). Akademichno izd-vo "Marin Drinov". p. 124. ISBN 9789544303389.
- 1 2 Lory 2000, para 4.
- 1 2 3 4 Miska, Marialena Argyro (2020). Επώνυμοι Τόποι: Ονομασίες Οικισμών στην Περιοχή της Φλώρινας [Named Places: Names of Settlements in the Florina Region] (Master's thesis) (in Greek). University of Western Macedonia. p. 79. Retrieved 16 February 2025.
- 1 2 3 4 Laiou 1987, p. 80.
- 1 2 Koliopoulos 1999, 47–48.
- 1 2 Lory 2000, para 5.
- ↑ Lory 2000, para 6.
- 1 2 3 4 Lory 2000, para 7.
- ↑ Kostov, Chris (2010). Contested Ethnic Identity: The Case of Macedonian Immigrants in Toronto, 1900–1996. Peter Lang. p. 136. ISBN 9783034301961.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Lory 2000, para 9.
- 1 2 Koliopoulos 1999, 124.
- ↑ Laiou, Angeliki E. (1987). "Population Movements in the Greek Countryside during the Civil War". In Bærentzen, Lars; Iatrides, John O.; Langwitz Smith, Ole (eds.). Studies in the History of the Greek Civil War, 1945–1949. Museum Tusculanum Press. pp. 80, 82. ISBN 9788772890043.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lory, Bernard (2000). "Kičevski (Nikola), Trsje i Trsjani (Le village de Trsje et ses habitants),. Skopje: Association des enfants réfugiés de la partie égéenne de la Macédoine, 1998, 307 p." [Kičevski (Nikola), Trsje i Trsjani (The village of Trsje and its inhabitants),. Skopje: Association of Refugee Children from the Aegean Part of Macedonia, 1998, 307 p.]. Balkanologie (in French). 4 (1). para. 10. doi:10.4000/balkanologie.2204.
- ↑ Koliopoulos, John S. (1999). Plundered Loyalties: Axis Occupation and Civil Strife in Greek West Macedonia, 1941–1949. Hurst. p. 278. ISBN 9781850653813.
- ↑ Kostopoulos, Tassos (2011). "How the North was won. Épuration ethnique, échange des populations et politique de colonisation dans la Macédoine grecque" [How the North was won. Ethnic cleansing, population exchange and settlement policy in Greek Macedonia]. European Journal of Turkish Studies (in French) (12). para. 56, footnote. 63. doi:10.4000/ejts.4437.