Psarades
{{Infobox Greek Dimos
|name = Psarades
|name_local = Ψαράδες
|type = community
|image_map =
|map_caption = Location within the regional unit
|periph = West Macedonia
|periphunit = Florina
|municipality = Prespes
|municunit = Prespes
|population = 73
|population_as_of = 2021
|area = 41.064
|elevation = 850
|coordinates = {{coord|40|49.8|N|21|1.9|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|postal_code = 530 77
|area_code = +30-2385
|licence = PA
|image_skyline = Prespes - Psarades vilage.jpg
|caption_skyline = Panorama of Psarades.
}}
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| title = On the origin of the name Nivici
| description = Excerpt from a man from Nivici, Mala Prespa (today Psarades) speaking in the local Lower Prespa dialect of Macedonian
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Psarades ({{langx|el|Ψαράδες}}) is a village and a community of the Prespes municipality, northern Greece.{{Cite web|url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL81-32jgAMSfbnMRVjyfnPUeJInJ48_97uHrMts-zFzeyCiBSQOpYnT00MHhcXFRTsb2fGphpq4MKX2ZkaHobySNnvZCNHXvYVvlf80XevW0Q.|title=ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities|language=el|publisher=Government Gazette}} Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of Prespes, of which it was a municipal district.
Name
The current name of the village, Psarades, means "fishermen" in Greek. Until 1927, Psarades was known as Nivitsa ({{langx|el|Νίβιτσα}}).
{{Cite web|author=Institute for Neohellenic Research|title=Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Nivitsa – Psarades|url=http://pandektis.ekt.gr/dspace/handle/10442/172409|website=Pandektis|access-date=14 November 2018}} In Macedonian and in Bulgarian it is known as Нивици; Nivici/Nivitsi, meaning fields.{{cite book|last=Włodzimierz|first=Pianka|title=Toponomastikata na Ohridsko-Prespanskiot bazen|year=1970|publisher=Institut za makedonski jazik "Krste Misirkov"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ELRAAAAMAAJ&dq=%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0+%D0%BD%D0%B0+%D0%9E%D1%85%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE-%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8+%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%BD&q=%D0%98%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BE+%D0%B5+%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE|pages=142}} "Нивици... Во селото и сега има Македонци... Името е топографско, примарно, рамно на дем. од нива (во sing. или pl). На грцки селото се вика Ψαράδες."
History
At the end of the 19th century, Nivitsi was a predominantly Bulgarian village. In the Ethnography of the Adrianople, Monastir and Salonica villas, published in Constantinople in 1878 and reflecting the statistics of the 1873 male population, Nivitzi is referred to as a village in the kaza of Resen with 30 households and 92 Bulgarians.„Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г.“ Македонски научен институт, София, 1995, стр. 88-89.
Another report, at the beginning of the 20th century, also stated that Nivitsi was a predominantly Bulgarian village. According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov ("Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics"), 200 Bulgarian Christians lived in the village in 1900.Кънчов, Васил. Македония. Етнография и статистика, София, 1900, стр. 242.
After the Ilinden Uprising in 1904, the whole village passed under the jurisdiction of the Bulgarian Exarchate.Силянов, Христо. Освободителните борби на Македония, том II, София, 1993, стр. 125. According to the Exarchist secretary Dimitar Mishev (1906), there were 528 Bulgarian Exarchists in Nivitsi.Brancoff, D.M. La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne, Paris, 1905, pp. 170-171. The Bulgarian church "Virgin Mary" was built here in 1893.Македонски Алманах, издава Ц.К. на МПО, редактор Петър Ацев, издание на "The Macedonian Tribune", Indianapolis, 1940, стр. 42.
=Prespa agreement=
{{Main|Prespa agreement}}
On 17 June 2018, the Prime Ministers of Greece and the Republic of Macedonia signed an agreement at the village, aiming the end of the Macedonia naming dispute.[https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/macedonia-changes-name-intl/index.html Greece and Macedonia sign agreement on name change] The Prespa Agreement took its name from homonymous lake, on the shores of which the village of Psarades was built.
Demographics
Psarades had 172 inhabitants in 1981. In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Psarades was populated by Slavophones. The Macedonian language was spoken in the village by people over 30 in public and private settings. Children understood the language, but mostly did not use it.{{cite journal|last=Van Boeschoten|first=Riki|title=Usage des langues minoritaires dans les départements de Florina et d’Aridea (Macédoine)|trans-title=Use of minority languages in the departments of Florina and Aridea (Macedonia)|language=fr|url=http://journals.openedition.org/strates/381|journal=Strates|volume=10|year=2001|at=}} Table 3: Psarades, 172; S, M2; S = Slavophones, M = macédonien"
The 2021 census recorded 73 inhabitants in the village. The community of Psarades covers an area of 41.064 km2 (15{{frac|3|4}} sq. mi.).{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf|publisher=National Statistical Service of Greece|title=Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)|language=el}}