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{{Infobox Greek Dimos
|name = Almopia
|name_local = Αλμωπία
|type = municipality
|image_map = 2011 Dimos Almopias.png
|periph = [[Central Macedonia]]
|periphunit         = [[Pella (regional unit)|Pella]]
|pop_municipality   = 24969
|area_municipality  = 985.8
|population_as_of = 2021
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|image_skyline      = Dimos Almopias Topo.png
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|mayor = Nikos Paroutoglou<ref name=mayor>[https://ekloges.ypes.gr/current/d/home/en/municipalities/9042/ Municipality of Almopia, Municipal elections – October 2023], Ministry of Interior</ref>
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'''Almopia''' ({{langx|el|Αλμωπία}}), or '''Enotia''' (Greek: Ενωτία), also known in the Middle Ages as '''Moglena''' (Greek: Μογλενά, [[Macedonian language|Macedonian]] and [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]]: Меглен or Мъглен), is a municipality and a former [[Provinces of Greece|province]] (επαρχία) of the [[Pella (regional unit)|Pella]] regional unit in [[Macedonia (Greece)|Macedonia]], [[Greece]]. The seat of the municipality is the town [[Aridaia]].<ref name=Kallikratis>{{Cite web|url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL8-SrPzKAEPjjtIl9LGdkF53UIxsx942CdyqxSQYNuqAGCF0IfB9HI6hq6ZkZV96FIukI0UzcPsWCK0LpLhpa7rhiWB4R5ntTnoWw7U8E1Amg.|title=ΦΕΚ A 87/2010, Kallikratis reform law text|language=el|publisher=[[Government Gazette (Greece)|Government Gazette]]}}</ref> The municipality has an area of 985.817&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>.<ref name=stat01>{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |publisher=National Statistical Service of Greece |title=Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation) |language=el |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-21 }}</ref>

==Name and history==
[[File:Macedonian Kingdom.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Map of the Kingdom of Macedon with Almopia located in the central districts of the kingdom.]]

The name Almopia ({{langx|grc|Ἀλμωπία}}, ''Almōpia'') derives from the [[Almopes]] ({{lang|grc|Ἀλμῶπες}}), a [[Paeonia (kingdom)|Paeonia]]n tribe that originally inhabited the area before being expelled from the region during the reign of [[Alexander I of Macedon|Alexander I]] (r. 498–454 BC) when Almopia was incorporated into the [[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|ancient Macedonian kingdom]].<ref>Thucydides, ''History of the Peloponnesian War'', [[wikisource:History of the Peloponnesian War/Book 2|II.99]]</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Roisman|first1=Joseph|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QsJ183uUDkMC|title=A Companion to Ancient Macedonia|last2=Worthington|first2=Ian|date=2011-07-07|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-4443-5163-7|pages=75|language=en}}</ref> The Almopes traced their descent to the eponymous mythological figure of [[Almops]], son of the Greek God [[Poseidon]] and [[Helle (mythology)|Helle]].<ref name="DGRBM">{{cite encyclopedia | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | author-link = Leonhard Schmitz | title = Almops | editor = William Smith | editor-link = William Smith (lexicographer) | encyclopedia = [[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]] | volume = 1 | pages = 132 | publisher = [[Little, Brown and Company]] | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;idno=acl3129.0001.001;q1=demosthenes;size=l;frm=frameset;seq=147}}</ref> The 2nd-century astronomer and geographer [[Claudius Ptolemy]] records three cities in the region in his ''[[Geography (Ptolemy)|Geography]]'': [[Horma (Almopia)|Horma]] ({{lang|grc|Ὅρμα}}), [[Europus (Almopia)|Europos]] ({{lang|grc|Εὔρωπος}}) and [[Apsalos]] ({{lang|grc|Ἄψαλος}}).

In the early [[Byzantine]] period, the area was renamed to Enotia (Greek: Ενωτία) after a nearby fortress, probably in the vicinity of modern [[Notia]]. The name was revived between 1915 and 1927 for the Greek province as well.<ref name="Koliadymou">{{cite book | author = Agni K. Koliadymou | title = Από την Αξό Καππαδοκίας στο Νομό Πέλλας: Προσφυγικές Διαδρομές (1890–1940) | location = Thessaloniki | year = 2006 | page = 117 | url = http://invenio.lib.auth.gr/record/66750/files/gri-2007-081.pdf?version=1 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGfC5kkMS5prHdtvSoClrL8aHyK_kVuaY55MXD0LzQTLWPU9yLzB8V68knBzLCmTXKaO6fpVZ6Lx3UnKl3nP8NxdnJ5r9cmWyIq-BTkXB0ftEAEhATUkJb0x1LIdQ163nV9K--td6SIub6owvrRgK_p2HBNxjwkNDP-1xQGbT_7UnlXiGTq7myN ΦΕΚ 304/27-12-1927]</ref>

In the later [[Middle Ages]], the area was known as Moglena (Greek: Μογλενά, {{langx|mk|Меглен}}, {{langx|bg|Мъглен}}), from the [[South Slavic languages|Slavic]] word for "fog".<ref>{{cite book | author = Wolfgang Dahmen | author2 = Johannes Kramer | chapter = Das Meglenorumänische | title = Rumänistik in der Diskussion | location = Tübingen | year= 1986 | isbn = 3-87808-859-0 | page = 262 | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=d0_mulifZSQC&pg=PA262}}</ref> Until the early 11th century, Moglena was a province of the [[First Bulgarian Empire]]. Captured by the Byzantine emperor [[Basil II]] in 1015, it is attested as the seat of a bishopric in 1020, and as capital of its own [[theme (Byzantine district)|theme]] in 1086. The area remained under Byzantine rule until the aftermath of the [[Fourth Crusade]], when it was captured by Tsar [[Kaloyan]] of the [[Second Bulgarian Empire]].<ref name= "ODB">{{cite encyclopedia | last = Kazhdan | first = Alexander | author-link = Alexander Kazhdan | title = Moglena | page = 1389 | editor-last=Kazhdan | editor-first=Alexander | editor-link=Alexander Kazhdan | year=1991 | encyclopedia = [[The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium]] | location = Oxford and New York | publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-504652-6}}</ref> It was incorporate in the [[Serbian Empire]] by [[Stefan Dušan]] in 1346. Moglena was inhabited mainly by [[Megleno-Romanians]] and Slavic people. In [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] times, the region was also known by its Turkish name '''Karacova''' or Karadjova valley ("Black Valley", Greek: Καρατζόβα) or in [[Ottoman Turkish]]: كاراجاوا.

Until the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)]] and the [[population exchange between Greece and Turkey]] in 1924, Muslim Macedonian Slavs and Megleno-Romanians made up part of the population.<ref>[[Theodor Capidan]],  [http://www.unibuc.ro/CLASSICA/megleno1/introducere.pdf ''Meglenoromânii, istoria şi graiul lor''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303184737/http://www.unibuc.ro/CLASSICA/megleno1/introducere.pdf|date=2016-03-03}}, vol. I, București, 1925, p.5, 19, 21-22)

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==Municipality==
The municipality Almopia was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 2 former municipalities, that became municipal units:<ref name=Kallikratis/>
*[[Aridaia]]
*[[Exaplatanos]]

==Province==
The province of Almopia (Επαρχία Αλμωπίας) was one of the three provinces of Pella Prefecture. Its territory corresponded with that of the current municipality of Almopia.<ref name=census91>{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00086.pdf |title=Detailed census results 1991 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183824/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00086.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-03 }}&nbsp;{{small|(39&nbsp;MB)}} {{in lang|el|fr}}</ref> It was abolished in 2006.

==See also==
* [[Megleno-Romanians]]
* [[Pomaks]]
* [[Population exchange between Greece and Turkey]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20141228085532/http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions//gis?region=4&subregion=11&area=Almopia Current locations of Almopia region]

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