Giannochori
Γιαννοχώρι | |
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Settlement | |
Coordinates: 40°26′54″N 20°55′31″E / 40.44833°N 20.92528°E | |
Country | Greece |
Geographic region | Macedonia |
Administrative region | Western Macedonia |
Regional unit | Kastoria |
Municipality | Nestorio |
Municipal unit | Nestorio |
Community | Nestorio |
Population (2021)
[1] | |
• Total | 6 |
Time zone | UTC+2 ( EET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+3 ( EEST) |
Giannochori ( Greek: Γιαννοχώρι, before 1927: Γιαννοβαίνη - Giannovaini [2]) is a village in Kastoria Regional Unit, Macedonia, Greece. It is part of the community of Nestorio.
Giannochorio was an Albanian speaking village with a Christian population in a wider Slavic speaking area. [3] As a bilingual village, both the Albanian and (Slavic) Macedonian languages were spoken. [4] Later Giannochorio became a monolingual Slavophone village, in particular its female villagers, followed by a new bilingualism with Greek as a second language. [4]