Polykarpi, Kastoria

Polykarpi (Greek: Πολυκάρπη, before 1926: Λίτσιστα – Litsista)[2] is a village in Kastoria Regional Unit, Macedonia, Greece.

The 1920 Greek census recorded 585 people in the village, and 250 inhabitants (20 families) were Muslim in 1923.

[3] Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, Greek refugee families in Litsista were from Asia Minor (26) and 5 from an unidentified location in 1926.

[3] In 1945, Greek Foreign Minister Ioannis Politis ordered the compilation of demographic data regarding the Prefecture of Kastoria.

[4] The village Polykarpi had a total of 740 inhabitants, and was populated by 370 Slavophones with a Bulgarian national consciousness.