Former toponyms in Greece
This list shows the South Slavic Greek names of places in Greece are compared.
Many Greek settlements had Greek and non-Greek forms of names in its history. Many of these names was under the rule of the Ottomans in use. Some of these forms of the name are demonstrably Greek origin, others come from Slavic languages , Turkish, Aromanian, Italian or Albanian. As a result of the First World War and the Greek -Turkish War (1919-1922), a comprehensive population exchange between Greece, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Bulgaria and Turkey was carried out under the treaties of Neuilly (1919 ) and Lausanne ( 1923). The former residence of the migrated populations on Greek territory were settled by Greeks from Eastern and Northern Thrace, Asia Minor, Macedonia and from the north of the Black Sea coast. The Greek Government adopted in the course of its settlement policy before the renaming of numerous places and originally led ancient Greek name, place and field names of local dialects of Greek or non-Greek translations of place names (again) a. Many names were brought by Greek immigrants from Asia Minor.
Now, although the vast majority of the population was Greek, the local renaming was considered as a means of ethnic and cultural self-discovery and the formation of a Greek group consciousness. The phase of the renaming took place over several decades. It began in 1926 and lasted into the 1960s.
With the renaming of Greek cities in the 20th century, has, among other things, a project of the Institute of Neohellenic Research in Athens. So far, a total of 4075 renames were documented for the period 1913-1962, broken down by region recorded in a database (as of 1 February 2011).