Ydroussa, Florina

Ydroussa (Greek: Υδρούσα, before 1927: Κάτω Κόττορι - Kato Kottori[2]) is a village in Florina regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece.

Ydroussa
Ydroussa
Coordinates: 40°43.18′N 21°27.40′E
Country	Greece
Geographic region	Macedonia
Administrative region	Western Macedonia
Regional unit	Florina
Municipality	Florina
Municipal unit	Perasma
Population  (2011)[1]
• Rural	304
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

The village in Ottoman Turkish was called Aşağı Kotor.[3] In statistics gathered by Vasil Kanchov in 1900, Kato Kottori was populated by 174 Christian Albanians and 600 Bulgarians.[4] Kanchov wrote that Christian Albanians of the late Ottoman period in Kato Kottori were increasingly being assimilated by its Bulgarian population.[5]

In the early twentieth century, Kato Kotori was involved with the Bulgarian national movement.[5][6]

During the 1940s, kin relations began to be formed between the Slavophone (Dopioi) and Arvanite populations of the village.[7] Villagers from both groups together attended school, partook in social events and looked after each other during the Second World War and Greek Civil War.[7]

Ydroussa had 456 inhabitants in 1981.[8] In fieldwork done by Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, (Kato) Ydroussa was populated by Slavophones and Arvanites.[8] The Macedonian language was spoken in the village by people over 30 in public and private settings.[8] Children understood the language, but mostly did not use it.[8]

In the late 1990s, in fieldwork done by Ioannis Manos, much of the Ydroussa village population self identified as Dopioi, a designation used by Slavophones of the Florina region and the remainder as Arvanites.[9] There were seldom elderly individuals with knowledge of Arvanitika.[7]