Ydroussa, Florina
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Ydroussa
Υδρούσα | |
|---|---|
  Ydroussa | |
| Coordinates: 40°43.18′N 21°27.40′E / 40.71967°N 21.45667°E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Geographic region | Macedonia |
| Administrative region | Western Macedonia |
| Regional unit | Florina |
| Municipality | Florina |
| Municipal unit | Perasma |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
• Community | 252 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Ydroussa (Greek: Υδρούσα, before 1927: Κάτω Κόττορι – Kato Kottori)[2] is a village in Florina regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece.
The village in Ottoman Turkish was called Aşağı Kotor.[3] In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, Kato Kottori was populated by 174 Christian Albanians and 600 Bulgarians.[4] Kanchov wrote that Christian Albanians of the late Ottoman period in Kato Kottori were increasingly being assimilated by its Bulgarian population.[5]
In the early twentieth century, Kato Kotori was involved with the Bulgarian national movement.[5][6] Immigrants from the village in Toronto, Canada participated in the early Bulgarian community to build church infrastructure.[7]
During the 1940s, kin relations began to be formed between the Slavophone (Dopioi) and Arvanite populations of the village.[8] Villagers from both groups together attended school, partook in social events and looked after each other during the Second World War and Greek Civil War.[8] Pre–war and post–war immigration from Ydroussa led to the formation of a diaspora and most of the village population lives abroad in the northern suburbs of Melbourne in Australia.[9]
Ydroussa had 456 inhabitants in 1981.[10] In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, (Kato) Ydroussa was populated by Slavophones and Arvanites.[10] The Macedonian language was spoken in the village by people over 30 in public and private settings.[10] Children understood the language, but mostly did not use it.[10]
In the late 1990s, in fieldwork done by Ioannis Manos, much of the Ydroussa village population self identified as Dopioi, a designation used by Slavophones of the Florina region and the remainder as Arvanites.[11] There were seldom elderly individuals with knowledge of Arvanitika.[8]
