{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}} {{about|the town in Greece|the area of Turkey|Çatalca}} {{Infobox Greek Dimos |name = Choristi |name_local = Χωριστή |type = community |image_skyline = SunsetinChoristi.jpg |caption_skyline = A dark sunset in Choristi |city_flag = |city_seal = |coordinates = {{coord|41|7.8|N|24|12.5|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |elevation_min = |elevation_max = 96 |periph = East Macedonia and Thrace |periphunit = Drama |municipality = Drama |municunit = Drama |established_c = |established_m = |districts = |mayor = |party = |since = |population_as_of = 2021 |population = 2512 |area = |population_village = |area_village = |postal_code = |area_code = |licence = |website = }}

'''Choristi''' ({{langx|el|Χωριστή}}, before 1927: Τσατάλτζα – ''Tsataltza'',<ref name=pandektis>{{cite web |title=Name Changes of Settlements in Greece |url=https://pandektis.ekt.gr/pandektis/handle/10442/169817 |website=Pandektis |access-date=11 August 2022}}</ref> {{langx|bg|Чаталджа}} – ''Chataldzha'') is a town in Drama municipality, Drama regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace region, Greece. The town is located about 8&nbsp;km southeast of Drama and has a population of 2,512 (2021 census). The elevation is approximately 98 m.

==History==

According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov ("Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics"), 1,750 Greek Christians and 300 Turks lived in the village in 1900.<ref>Kanchov, Vasil, {{ URL | 1=http://www.promacedonia.org/vk/vk_2_45.htm | 2=Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics }}, Sofia, 1900, book 2, p. 22. Written as "Чаталджа". (in Bulgarian)</ref> The town was known as Τσατάλτζα – ''Tsataltza'',<ref name=pandektis/> until it was renamed in 1927. During World War I from 1916 to 1918 the town was occupied by Bulgarian troops and the local men were shipped out to concentration camps in Bulgaria. Of the 525 hostages from Choristi, less than 50 managed to return to Greece due to abuse, hunger and disease.<ref>Mazower, Mark (2000) ''After the War was Over'' Princeton University Press, New Jersey, page 292: "although of the 525 hostages of Choristi, fewer than fifty returned" {{ISBN|0-691-05842-3}}</ref> During World War II, the occupying Axis powers executed a number of people in Choristi as "terrorists" or "resistance fighters" or their sympathizers. This came to be known as the "Choristi Massacre".<ref>Mazower, Mark (2000) ''After the War was Over'' Princeton University Press, New Jersey, page 287, {{ISBN|0-691-05842-3}}</ref><ref>Michal, Bernard (1971) ''Histoire Secrète des Maquis Étrangers'' (''The Secret History of the Resistance – outside France'') Ed. de Crémille, Geneva, volume 4, page 20, {{OCLC|22123318}}, in French</ref>

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