Many settlements in Macedonia region in Northern Greece had Greek and non-Greek forms.
Most of those names were in use during the multinational environment of the Ottoman Empire.
(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.
:[2][3] The multi ethnic names were officially removed and the former multiethnic composition of the region was almost denied.
[4][5] A lot of historical Greek names from Asia Minor were also introduced in the region mainly by the resettled refugees.