# Filotas

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**Filotas** (Greek: Φιλώτας, before 1927: Τσαλτζιλάρ – *Tsaltzilar*;[1] Bulgarian: Чалджиево, *Chaldzhievo*) is a village and a former [municipality](/source/Communities_and_Municipalities_of_Greece) in [Florina regional unit](/source/Florina_(regional_unit)), [West Macedonia](/source/West_Macedonia), [Greece](/source/Greece). Since the 2011 local government reform it is a municipal unit of the municipality [Amyntaio](/source/Amyntaio).[2] The municipal unit has an area of 132.495 km2.[3] Population 3,616 (2021).

## Demographics

The 1920 Greek census recorded 2,137 people in the village, and 2,100 inhabitants were Muslim in 1923.[4] Following the [Greek–Turkish population exchange](/source/Population_exchange_between_Greece_and_Turkey), [Greek refugee](/source/Greek_refugee) families in Tsaltzilar were from [East Thrace](/source/East_Thrace) (393), [Asia Minor](/source/Asia_Minor) (60) and the [Caucasus](/source/Caucasus) (106) in 1926.[4] The 1928 Greek census recorded 1,893 village inhabitants.[4] In 1928, the refugee families numbered 539 (2,188 people).[4]

## References

1. Institute for Neohellenic Research. ["Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Tsaltzilar – Filotas"](http://pandektis.ekt.gr/pandektis/handle/10442/171370). *Pandektis*. Retrieved 30 March 2022.

1. ["ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities"](http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL81-32jgAMSfbnMRVjyfnPUeJInJ48_97uHrMts-zFzeyCiBSQOpYnT00MHhcXFRTsb2fGphpq4MKX2ZkaHobySNnvZCNHXvYVvlf80XevW0Q.) (in Greek). [Government Gazette](/source/Government_Gazette_(Greece))

1. ["Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece. Archived from [the original](http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf) on 2015-09-21.

1. Pelagidis, Efstathios (1992). [*Η αποκατάσταση των προσφύγων στη Δυτική Μακεδονία (1923–1930)*](https://www.didaktorika.gr/eadd/handle/10442/2403) [The rehabilitation of refugees in Western Macedonia: 1923–1930] (Ph.D.) (in Greek). Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. p. 75. Retrieved 30 March 2022.

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