Achlada (; Bulgarian and Macedonian: Крушоради) is a village in the Florina regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece.
History The settlement was mentioned in a defter of 1626–1627, under the name of Krushorad, and was described as having 61 non-Muslim households.
The Russian slavist Victor Grigorovich recorded Krushorade () as mainly Bulgarian village in 1845.Григорович, В. Очерки путешествiя по Европейской Турцiи, Москва, 1877 Gyorche Petrov in 1986 notes that the village had 20 Bulgarian Exarchist and 40 Bulgarian Patriarchist households. Vasil Kanchov's 1900 survey recorded 650 Bulgarian Christians in the village. Later in 1905, Secretary of the Bulgarian Exarchate Dimitar Mishev (writing as "Brancoff") documented 760 Bulgarian Exarchists in the village.
The paternal grandparents of Nikola Gruevski, former Prime Minister of Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia), were born here, including his grandfather Nikolaos Grouios.
In 1926, the name of the village was changed from Κρουσοράτη (Krousoráti) to Αχλάδα (Achláda).
In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Achlada was populated by Slavophones. The Macedonian language was spoken by people over 60, mainly in private. Table 3: Achlada, 313; S, M3; S = Slavophones, M = macédonien"
Demographics
The population of the village from 1913 and the following years is as follows:Numbers in parentheses are the de facto population, while those next to the parentheses are the de jure population.
+ Population by census year Year Population Male Female Total 1913 259 347 606 1920 269 304 573 1928 328 362 69019404854829671951346 (361)1961465 (534)1971490 (240)1981575 (313)1991562 (305)2001(301)2011–2021–
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