The 2021 census reported a population of 7,499 inhabitants for the municipal unit, and 3,169 for the town.

[3] Prosotsani is a historic town (and a former center of tobacco production) built on the foot of Menekio mountain.

It was a sub-district in the sanjak in the Selanik vilayet as "Pürsıçan" during Ottoman Era, before the Balkan Wars.

The series, Elvada Rumeli, tells the story of a Turkish milkman who was living with his family in Prosotsani during the forced migration of the Turkish population from Macedonia.

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