Almopia

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The name Almopia ({{langx|grc|Ἀλμωπία}}, Almōpia) derives from the Almopes ({{lang|grc|Ἀλμῶπες}}), a Paeonian tribe that originally inhabited the area before being expelled from the region during the reign of Alexander I (r. 498–454 BC) when Almopia was incorporated into the ancient Macedonian kingdom.Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, II.99{{Cite book|last1=Roisman|first1=Joseph|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QsJ183uUDkMC|title=A Companion to Ancient Macedonia|last2=Worthington|first2=Ian|date=2011-07-07|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-4443-5163-7|pages=75|language=en}} The Almopes traced their descent to the eponymous mythological figure of Almops, son of the Greek God Poseidon and Helle.{{cite encyclopedia | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | author-link = Leonhard Schmitz | title = Almops | editor = William Smith | editor-link = William Smith (lexicographer) | encyclopedia = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 132 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;idno=acl3129.0001.001;q1=demosthenes;size=l;frm=frameset;seq=147}} The 2nd-century astronomer and geographer Claudius Ptolemy records three cities in the region in his Geography: Horma ({{lang|grc|Ὅρμα}}), Europos ({{lang|grc|Εὔρωπος}}) and Apsalos ({{lang|grc|Ἄψαλος}}).

In the early Byzantine period, the area was renamed to Enotia (Greek: Ενωτία) after a nearby fortress, probably in the vicinity of modern Notia. The name was revived between 1915 and 1927 for the Greek province as well.{{cite book | author = Agni K. Koliadymou | title = Από την Αξό Καππαδοκίας στο Νομό Πέλλας: Προσφυγικές Διαδρομές (1890–1940) | location = Thessaloniki | year = 2006 | page = 117 | url = http://invenio.lib.auth.gr/record/66750/files/gri-2007-081.pdf?version=1 }}[http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGfC5kkMS5prHdtvSoClrL8aHyK_kVuaY55MXD0LzQTLWPU9yLzB8V68knBzLCmTXKaO6fpVZ6Lx3UnKl3nP8NxdnJ5r9cmWyIq-BTkXB0ftEAEhATUkJb0x1LIdQ163nV9K--td6SIub6owvrRgK_p2HBNxjwkNDP-1xQGbT_7UnlXiGTq7myN ΦΕΚ 304/27-12-1927]

In the later Middle Ages, the area was known as Moglena (Greek: Μογλενά, {{langx|mk|Меглен}}, {{langx|bg|Мъглен}}), from the Slavic word for "fog".{{cite book | author = Wolfgang Dahmen | author2 = Johannes Kramer | chapter = Das Meglenorumänische | title = Rumänistik in der Diskussion | location = Tübingen | year= 1986 | isbn = 3-87808-859-0 | page = 262 | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=d0_mulifZSQC&pg=PA262}} Until the early 11th century, Moglena was a province of the First Bulgarian Empire. Captured by the Byzantine emperor Basil II in 1015, it is attested as the seat of a bishopric in 1020, and as capital of its own theme in 1086. The area remained under Byzantine rule until the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade, when it was captured by Tsar Kaloyan of the Second Bulgarian Empire.{{cite encyclopedia | last = Kazhdan | first = Alexander | author-link = Alexander Kazhdan | title = Moglena | page = 1389 | editor-last=Kazhdan | editor-first=Alexander | editor-link=Alexander Kazhdan | year=1991 | encyclopedia = The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium | location = Oxford and New York | publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-504652-6}} It was incorporate in the Serbian Empire by Stefan Dušan in 1346. Moglena was inhabited mainly by Megleno-Romanians and Slavic people. In Ottoman times, the region was also known by its Turkish name Karacova or Karadjova valley ("Black Valley", Greek: Καρατζόβα) or in Ottoman Turkish: كاراجاوا.

Until the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) and the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1924, Muslim Macedonian Slavs and Megleno-Romanians made up part of the population.Theodor Capidan, [http://www.unibuc.ro/CLASSICA/megleno1/introducere.pdf Meglenoromânii, istoria şi graiul lor] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303184737/http://www.unibuc.ro/CLASSICA/megleno1/introducere.pdf|date=2016-03-03}}, vol. I, București, 1925, p.5, 19, 21-22)

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The municipality Almopia was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 2 former municipalities, that became municipal units:

• Aridaia
• Exaplatanos

The province of Almopia (Επαρχία Αλμωπίας) was one of the three provinces of Pella Prefecture. Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipality of Almopia.{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00086.pdf |title=Detailed census results 1991 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183824/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00086.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-03 }} {{small|(39 MB)}} {{in lang|el|fr}} It was abolished in 2006.

• Megleno-Romanians
• Pomaks
• Population exchange between Greece and Turkey

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20141228085532/http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions//gis?region=4&subregion=11&area=Almopia Current locations of Almopia region]

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