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On the first floor are the everyday room and the summer bedroom and on the second floor the main sitting room and the winter bedroom. They display a rich collection of women's and men's clothing (mainly formal local costumes), underwear, needlework and embroidery, handwoven textiles, and a rich collection of family photographs and women's portraits from Kastorian communities abroad.
Orestis (Greek: Ὀρεστίς) was a region of Upper Macedonia, corresponding roughly to the modern Kastoria regional unit located in West Macedonia, Greece. Its inhabitants were the Orestae , an ancient Greek tribe that was part of the Molossian tribal state or koinon .
The 1920 Greek census recorded 6,280 people in the town, and 829 inhabitants (242 families) were Muslim in 1923. [66] The Muslim minority of Kastoria was sent to Turkey during the Greek–Turkish population exchange (1923), and resettled in places such as Bor, Kahramanmaraş, and Yozgat in Turkey.
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Some people in the village sided with Bulgaria during the Balkan Wars and the First World War, but became part of Greece following the First Balkan War. [10] From the 1930s and especially 1940s many of its citizens became active in Macedonian separatist and Communist groups, the latter due to the Communists' advocacy on behalf of equal rights ...
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Kalochori (Greek: Καλοχώρι, before 1926: Δοβρόλιτσα – Dovrolitsa; [2] Macedonian: Добролишта Dobrolišta; Bulgarian: Добролища Dobrolishta, Добролишча Dobrolishcha in the Kostur dialect), is a small rural village, part of the municipal unit of Kastoria, Kastoria regional unit, Greece.
The process of the Ottoman Empire's decline was accompanied by a severe economic crisis across the empire, and the Kastoria region lost its regional economic significance. In addition, the Greek national awakening did not spare the city of Kastoria and its Jews, who were often accused of collaborating with the Ottoman occupiers. In the years ...