Bogdantsi (city)

Greek school existed here since 1800 . The population participated in the pan-Greek rebellion of 1821 against the Ottomans and was represented in the committee of the northern Macedonians and in the interim Directorate of Greece in 1822 by one representative ^[1] .

In the XIX century, it was largely a Bulgarian or Bulgarian-speaking town. In the Ethnography of the Adrianople, Monastery and Thessaloniki vilayets, published in 1878 in Constantinople, 2,145 Bulgarians and 165 Muslims living in the town in 1873 are mentioned ^[2] . After the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, the Bulgarian school was closed by the Greek Metropolitan in Strumica ^[3] . According to the Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kynchov , at the end of the 19th century the population was 3,560 people - 2,540 Bulgarians , 900 Turks and 120 Gypsies ^[4] . At the beginning of the 20th century, the Christian population of Bogdanzi was very mixed in terms of religious affiliation. According to the secretary of the Bulgarian Exarchate, in 1905, 1,400 Bulgarian exarchists, 1,480 Bulgarian patriarchists (Greeks), 160 Bulgarian patriarchists (Serbians), 144 Bulgarian uniates lived in Bogdantsi. There was a Bulgarian, Greek and Serbian school ^[5] .

A group of Bulgarian Grekoman who were called by the ideologists of Greek national propaganda “Bulgarian-speaking Greeks” ^[6] were considered to be adherents of the Greek national idea. During the struggle for Macedonia, the city ​​and the region became the scene of confrontation between the Greeks and Bulgarians. The city is famous for Macedonians, that is, the fighter for the reunification of Macedonia with Greece, Georgios Vogdanciotis (Karaiskakis) ^[7] , as well as the Bulgarian revolutionaries Delo Kalachev ^[8] and Peter Karkalashev.

During the Balkan War, 78 people from the city volunteered in the Macedon-Odrinsk militia of the Bulgarian army ^[9] .

After the end of the Balkan Wars in 1913, when the border between Serbia and Greece passed south of the city, despite the requests of the Greek population to the Greek Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos to include the city in Greece, the city remained on the Serbian side ^[10] . After that, most Greeks chose to relocate to Greece - to nearby Kilkis and Thessaloniki.

According to the 2002 census, 6011 residents lived in the city ^[11] .

•    Petrushev, Kiril (1885-1980), Yugoslav politician, member of ASNOM , Minister of the Interior of the NRM
• Georgios Vogdanciotis (Karaiskakis) (? - 1910) Macedonomians - fighter for the reunification of Macedonia with Greece
•   Sionidis, Michalis (1870-1935), Greek revolutionary ^{[12] [13]}
•   Bogdanzaliyats, Stoyan , Bulgarian revolutionary