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Skopos Σκοπός
Community
Agios Nikolaos church in Skopos
Skopos
Coordinates: 40°52′N 21°37.59′E / 40.867°N 21.62650°E / 40.867; 21.62650
Country	Greece
Administrative region	West Macedonia
Regional unit	Florina
Municipality	Florina
Municipal unit	Meliti
Population
• Community	103
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Skopos (Greek: Σκοπός, before 1926: Σέτινα – Setina; Macedonian: Сетина, Setina) is a village in Florina regional unit, Greece.

History

There were fortified palaces of Bulgarian Tsar Samuel at the beginning of the 11th century, near the place where today's village is. In the autumn of 1017 the fortress was captured and burned down by the Byzantine Emperor Basil II. Soon afterwards, the Battle of Setina took place. In it the Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Vladislav opposed the Byzantines, but he was defeated.

In 1845 the Russian slavist Victor Grigorovich recorded "Tsrevo" as a mainly Bulgarian village. 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, "Setigne" was noted as a village with 50 households and 140 male Bulgarian inhabitants.

Demography

In 1905, Setina's population consisted of 816 Bulgarian Exarchists.

Skopos had 137 inhabitants in 1981. In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Skopos was populated by Slavophones. The Macedonian language was spoken by people over 60, mainly in private.

In Toronto, Canada there are 700 families from Skopos.

References

1. "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
2. Institute for Neohellenic Research. "Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Setina – Skopos". Pandektis. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
3. Златарски, В. История на българската държава през средните векове, т. 1, ч. 2, София 1971, с. 727-728
4. Григорович, В. Очеркъ путешествiя по Европейской Турцiи, Москва, 1877 "...населено преимущественно Болгарами с примесью Валахов и Турков. Поименую села их: Владово, Острово, Кочено, Кадрево, Гугово, Русилово, Дружко, Ослово, Пачетин, Ниссие, Чегано, Крмско, Учин, Грамматиново, Ракита, Каменек, Баината, Орево, Жерве, Петерско у озера, Рошава, Пътеле, Суровичево, Гулинци, Любетино, Зеленич, Палиора, Дебрец, Невеска и Судир (в обоих сел. Влахи), Вербини, еще Вербини, Црево, Баньци, Забердин, Вуштарни, Крушораде, Ситина, Совиче, Добровина, Бачь, Куйнавите, Ромалия, Саново село, Секулево, Кальник, Клештина, Арминор, Кодорево, Клобучище, Арменско, Неволино, Лежини, Кучковини, Пешошница, Вартолом, Лесковец..."
5. Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г. Македонски научен институт, 1995. стр. 82-83.
6. D.M.Brancoff. "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne". Paris, 1905, рр. 176-177. (in French)
7. ^ Van Boeschoten, Riki (2001). "Usage des langues minoritaires dans les départements de Florina et d'Aridea (Macédoine)" [Use of minority languages in the departments of Florina and Aridea (Macedonia)]. Strates (in French). 10. Table 3: Skopos, 137; S, M3; S = Slavophones, M = macédonien"
8. Euromosaic (2006). "Le [slavo]macédonien/bulgare en Grèce" [Macedonian/Bulgarian in Greece] (in French). Research Centre of Multilingualism. Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2024.

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