Former toponyms of places in Xanthi Prefecture

Many inhabited places in Xanthi Prefecture of Greece had Greek and non-Greek forms. Most of those names were in use during the multinational environment of the Ottoman Empire. Some of the forms were identifiably of Greek origin, others were mainly Turkish and even some of Slavic, or more obscure origins.Following the First World War and the Graeco-Turkish War which followed, an exchange of population took place between Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkey.(Treaty of Neuilly, between Greece and Bulgaria and Treaty of Lausanne, between Greece and Turkey)The villages of the exchanged populations (Bulgarians and Muslims) in Greece were resettled with Greeks from Asia Minor and local Macedonian Greeks.

The Greek government renamed many places with revived ancient names, local Greek-language names, or translations of the non-Greek names. [Todor Hristov Simovski, "The Inhabited Places of the Aegean Macedonia" (Skopje 1998), ISBN 9989-9819-4-9, pp. XXXVIII-XLII.] [cite web |url=http://www.unix.gr/Macedonia/Vlasidis.htm |title=Recycling Propaganda: Remarks on Recent Reports on Greece's "Slav-Macedonian Minority" |author=Vlassis Vlasidis - Veniamin Karakostanoglou ] :

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