Armenochori, Greece
Armenochori is a village in the Florina regional unit, northern Greece. It is situated along the Greek National Road 2, 4 km northeast of Florina.
Demographics
In 1845 the Russian slavist Victor Grigorovich recorded Arminor as mainly Bulgarian village. According to the statistics of geographer Dimitri Mishev, the town had a total Christian population of 776 in 1905, consisting of 424 Patriarchist Bulgarians and 352 Exarchist Bulgarians. It also had 2 schools, 1 Bulgarian and 1 Greek.The 1920 Greek census recorded 871 people in the village, and 40 inhabitants were Muslim in 1923. Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, Greek refugee families in Armenochori were from Pontus in 1926. The 1928 Greek census recorded 1,045 village inhabitants. In 1928, the refugee families numbered 36 .
Armenochori had 1046 inhabitants in 1981. In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Armenochori was populated by Slavophones and a Greek population descended from Anatolian Greek refugees who arrived during the Greek–Turkish population exchange. 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. Pontic Greek was spoken by people over 60, mainly in private.