Agios Athanasios
Άγιος Αθανάσιος | |
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  Agios Athanasios | |
| Coordinates: 40°50′N 21°47′E / 40.833°N 21.783°E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | Central Macedonia |
| Regional unit | Pella |
| Municipality | Edessa |
| Municipal unit | Vegoritida |
| Community | |
| • Population | 518 (2011) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Agios Athanasios (Greek: Άγιος Αθανάσιος, before 1926: Τσεγάνη, Tsegani;,[2] Bulgarian/Macedonian: Чеган, Chegan) is a village in the Pella regional unit of Macedonia, Greece. The village is located north of Lake Vegoritida within the Vegoritida municipal unit which belongs to the municipality of Edessa.
History
In the book "Ethnographie des Vilayets d'Adrianople, de Monastir et de Salonique", published in Constantinople in 1878, that reflects the statistics of the male population in 1873, Tchegantche was noted as a village with 124 households and 547 Bulgarian inhabitants.[3]
In 1900, Vasil Kanchov gathered and compiled statistics on demographics in the area and reported that the village of Chegan was inhabited by about 750 Bulgarian Christians.[4]
In August 1916 Bulgarian and Serbian forces fought near the village during the Chegan Offensive.
The village was abandoned by the 1980s and the inhabitants built a new village further down the slopes at Neos Agios Athanasios, however, after 2000, with the popularity of nearby Voras Ski resort on Mt Kaimaktsalan, the old buildings of Agios Athanasios have beem refurbished and the village has become popular with tourists and skiers.
References
- ↑ "Απογραφή Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2011. ΜΟΝΙΜΟΣ Πληθυσμός" (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority.
- ↑ Name changes of settlements in Greece
- ↑ Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г." Македонски научен институт, 1995. стр. 158-159. (in Bulgarian)
- ↑ Vasil Kanchov (1900). Кънчов, Васил. Македония. Етнография и статистика, София, 1900, с. 149. (Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics, p. 149. Accessed 25 May 2019 (in Bulgarian)