title: Filotas
text: # Filotas
  
  Filotas (Greek: Φιλώτας, before 1927: Τσαλτζιλάρ - Tsaltzilar; Bulgarian: Чалджиево, Chaldzhievo) is a village and a former municipality in Florina regional unit, West Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is a municipal unit of the municipality Amyntaio. The municipal unit has an area of 132.495 $km^2.$ Population 4,524 (2011).
  
  ## Demographics
  
  The Greek census (1920) recorded 2,137 people in the village and in 1923 there were 2,100 inhabitants who were Muslim. Following the Greek-Turkish population exchange, in 1926 within Tsaltzilar there were refugee families from East Thrace (393), Asia Minor (60) and the Caucasus (106). The Greek census (1928) recorded 1893 village inhabitants. There were 539 refugee families (2,188 people) in 1928.
  
  