Mandres, Kilkis

Mandres (Greek: Μάνδρες, Bulgarian: Хамбаркьой) is a village South of the City of Kilkis in the Kilkis regional unit, Greece. It is part of the municipal unit Gallikos and has a population of 475 people (2011). Until 1926, Mandres was known as Ampar Kioi (Greek: Αμπάρ Κιόι).[2] The name was also written as Ambar Köy.[3]

Mandres

Μάνδρες
Mandres
Coordinates: 40°59′N 22°52′E
CountryGreece
Administrative regionCentral Macedonia
Regional unitKilkis
MunicipalityKilkis
Municipal unitGallikos
Elevation
100 m (300 ft)
Population
 (2011)[1]
 • Rural
475
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code
611 00
Area code(s)23410
Vehicle registrationNI, ΚΙ*

History

Ambar Koy was mainly a Slavic speaking settlement and its population intermarried with other Slavic speaking villages in the area.[4] In the early 1900s, Vasil Kanchov stated that the local population was composed of 300 Bulgarians and 66 Turks, whereas Hilmi Pasha described the village as inhabited only by 195 Bulgarians.[5] During the period of the Balkan Wars, the Greek army destroyed the settlement[5] and it was repopulated by people from the village of Mandritsa in Bulgaria.[6] Until World War Two, relatives from both villages would visit each other.[6]

In the 1980s only middle aged and elderly generations within the village had knowledge of an Albanian dialect.[7] The Mandres Albanian dialect is similar to that of Mandritsa and sharply differs from other varieties of the Albanian language.[7][8][3] For example the gender system (masculine and feminine) present in all varieties of Albanian has disappeared from the Mandres Albanian dialect due to influence from the Turkish language when the population in the past lived near Turkey.[9]

References
  1. "Απογραφή Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2011. ΜΟΝΙΜΟΣ Πληθυσμός" (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority.
  2. "Πανδέκτης: Nivitsa -- Mandres". Retrieved 2019-05-22. Pandektis: Name Changes of Settlements in Greece, compiled by the Institute for Neohellenic Research
  3. Friedman, Victor A. (1994). "Slavic-Albanian Contacts and Early Polyglot Lexicons: The Albanian Lexicon of the Monk Arkádïi, A Mid-Nineteenth Century Manuscript from the Hilendar Monastery on Mount Athos" (PDF). Slavia meridionalis: Studia linguistica, slavica et balcanica. 1: 146.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  4. Karakasidou, Anastasia N. (1997). Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia. University of Chicago Press. p. 40. ISBN 9780226424996.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  5. Michailidis, Iakovos D. (2007). "Population Shifts in Contemporary Greek Macedonia". In Koliopoulos, Ioannis (ed.). The History of Macedonia (PDF). Museum of the Macedonian Struggle. p. 361.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  6. Alatis, James E. (1978). International Dimensions of Bilingual Education. Georgetown University Press. p. 157. ISBN 9780878401130.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  7. Hamp, Eric (1992). "On signs of health and death". In Dorian, Nancy C. (ed.). Investigating obsolescence: Studies in language contraction and death. Cambridge University Press. p. 209. ISBN 9780521437578.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  8. Hamp, Eric (1992). "Albanian". In Gvozdanović, Jadranka (ed.). Indo-European Numerals. Mouton de Gruyter. p. 883. ISBN 9783110113228.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  9. Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. (2016). How gender shapes the world. Oxford University Press. p. 87. ISBN 9780198723752.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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