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Administrative Region : West Macedonia
Regional unit : Kastoria

Germas (Γέρμας) Kastoria

Germas (until 1926 Losnitsa) is a village in the Municipality of Orestidos in the Prefecture of Kastoria.

According to the “Kapodistrias” plan, for 11 from 1999 to 2010, Germas belonged to the Municipal District of Germa, of the former Municipality of Ionas Dragoumis.

Geography

The village is located at an altitude of 777 meters above sea level on Mount Mourikis.

History
Turkish rule

The church "Agios Georgios" was built in 1761.

During the 19th century, Germas was a Greek village in the Ottoman Empire. Alexander Sinve in his work Les Grecs de l’Empire Ottoman. Etude Statistique et Ethnographique in 1878 wrote that Germas was inhabited by 1,200 Greeks.

According to Vasil Kanchov's statistics ("Macedonia. Ethnography and Statistics") in 1900, Germas is a village with 600 Greek Christians.

Hellas

During the Balkan Wars the village was occupied by Greek units and remained in Greece. During World War II, in 1943, after a battle between German troops and Greek resistance, the village burned down.

Demography

1913 - 903 inhabitants
1920 - 960 inhabitants
1928 - 1024 inhabitants
1940 - 1186 inhabitants
1951 - 1032 inhabitants
1961 - 1017 inhabitants
1971 - 799 inhabitants
1981 - 747 inhabitants
1991 - 830 inhabitants
2001 - 720 inhabitants

Municipal unit Ion Dragoumis
Community Ampelokipoi
Ampelokipoi (Αμπελόκηποι, οι)
Community Vogatsiko
Άγιος Νικόλαος, ο
Vogatsiko (Βογατσικό, το)
Community Germas
Germas (Γέρμας, ο)
Community Kostarazi
Kostarazi (Κωσταράζι, το)
Νέο Κωσταράζι, το
Community Militsa
Militsa (Μηλίτσα, η)

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