Karyes, Florina
Karyes (Greek: Καρυές, before 1920: Όροβνικ – Orovnik)[2] is a village in the Florina Regional Unit in West Macedonia, Greece. DemographicsIn the early 1900s, 150 Slavonic speaking Christians lived in the village.[3] During the Greek Civil War, the Greek refugee population living in nearby Pyli fled to Karyes.[4] By the 1950s, the Greek government assisted a group of nomadic transhumant Aromanians, known as the Arvanitovlachs, to settle in depopulated villages of the Prespa region like Karyes.[5] In the early 1970s, the population of Aromanians and Greeks in the village was more numerous than the Macedonian speaking people.[3] Karyes had 63 inhabitants in 1981.[6] In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Karyes was populated by a Greek population descended from Anatolian Greek refugees who arrived during the Greek–Turkish population exchange.[6] References
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