Ieropigi
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Ieropigi | |
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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) |
Ieropigi (Greek: Ιεροπηγή, before 1927: Κοστενέτσι – Kostenetsi;[2] Bulgarian/Macedonian: Косинец - Kosinets/Kosinec) is a village in Kastoria Regional Unit, Macedonia, Greece. The community consists of the villages Ieropigi and Agios Dimitrios.
The 1920 Greek census recorded 563 people in the village.[3] Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, Greek refugee families in Kostenetsi were from Pontus (11) in 1926.[3] The 1928 Greek census recorded 501 village inhabitants.[3] In 1928, the refugee families numbered 12 (53 people).[3]
In mid–1941 Ieropigi along with Slavic Macedonian inhabitants from several villages partook in a celebration commemorating the Battle of Lokvata, fought by Bulgarian revolutionaries (Komitadjis) against Ottoman soldiers in 1903.[4]
In 1945, Greek Foreign Minister Ioannis Politis ordered the compilation of demographic data regarding the Prefecture of Kastoria.[5] The village Ieropigi had a total of 458 inhabitants, and was populated by 400 Slavophones with a Bulgarian national consciousness.[6] The inhabitants spoke the Dolna Korèshcha variant of the Kostur dialect[7]
By the 1950s, the Greek government assisted a group of nomadic transhumant Aromanians to settle in depopulated villages of the area like Ieropigi.[8] Aromanians are now the only inhabitants of the village.[8]