Nižepole

Nižepole is a village in the municipality of Bitola, Republic of Macedonia and is an alpine settlement 7.85 kilometers from Bitola.

The population of Nižepole was made up of older inhabitants of Aromanians and later Arvanito-Vlachs who formed a large part of the village population. A small number of Muslim Albanians over time settled in Nižepole originating from the Korçë region. During the first World War, Nižepole fell on the Allied side of the Macedonian front and its Aromanian villagers first fled to Florina and then most went to Katerini, Greece. After the war, most Nižepole Aromanians preferred to remain in Katerini after a few returnees came back telling of the destruction of the village. Only in 1923 with the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey and arrival of Greek refugees after the Greco-Turkish War did some Nižepole inhabitants return to the village.

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