Until 1926, Mandres was known as Ampar Kioi (Greek: Αμπάρ Κιόι).

[5] During the period of the Balkan Wars, the Greek army destroyed the settlement[5] and it was repopulated by people from the village of Mandritsa in Bulgaria.

[6] Until World War II, relatives from both villages would visit each other.

[6] In the 1980s only middle aged and elderly generations within the village had knowledge of an Albanian dialect.

[7][8][3] For example the gender system (masculine and feminine) present in all varieties of Albanian has disappeared from the Mandres Albanian dialect due to influence from the Turkish language when the population in the past lived near Turkey.