Tripotamos, Florina

According to Ethnographie des vilayets d'Andrinople: de Monastir, et de Salonique, which was published in 1878, the village had 60 houses and a population of 170 males, all recorded as Bulgarians.^[2] According to statistics collected by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, the village had a population of 210, all Bulgarians.^[3] Athanasios Chalkiopoulos in 1910 claims the village had "158 Orthodox Greeks terrorized since 1904".^[4] According to statistics collected by Dimitar Mishev (under the pseudonym "Brancoff") in 1905, the village had a population of 192, all Exarchist Bulgarians.^[5] Borivoje Milojević wrote in 1921 that the village had 20 houses, all Slavic Christian.^[6]

In 1928, the name of the village was changed from Πετοράκι (Petoráki) to Τριπόταμος (Tripótamos).^[7]

The 1920 Greek census recorded 135 people in the village.^[8] Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, Greek refugee families in Petoraki were from the Caucasus (27) and three others from an unidentified location in 1926.^[8] The 1928 Greek census recorded 319 village inhabitants.^[8] In 1928, the refugee families numbered 34 (140 people).^[8]

Tripotamos had 550 inhabitants in 1981.^[9] In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Tripotamos was populated by Slavophones, a Greek population descended from Anatolian Greek refugees who arrived during the population exchange, and Arvanites.^[9] The Macedonian language was used by people of all ages, both in public and private settings, and as the main language for interpersonal relationships.^[9] Some elderly villagers had little knowledge of Greek.^[9] Pontic Greek was spoken in the village by people over 30 in public and private settings.^[9] Children understood the language, but mostly did not use it.^[9] Arvanitika (close to Albanian) was spoken by people over 60, mainly in private.^[9]