Vasileiada

Vasileiada (Βασιλειάδα, before 1928: Ζαγοριτσάνη – Zagoritsani Macedonian and Загоричани) is a village in Kastoria Regional Unit, Macedonia, Greece. The community consists of the villages Vasileiada, Agia Paraskevi and Verga.

Originally named Zagorichani, the village had a Slavic speaking population during Ottoman rule. After the rise of nationalism the locals were divided in pro-Bulgarian and pro-Greek community. During the struggle for Macedonia, many Bulgarian inhabitants were killed in 1905.

After Zagoritsani became part of Greece in 1913, the village mosque was demolished. The Greek census (1920) recorded 1105 inhabitants in the village. Following the Greek-Turkish population exchange, in 1926 in Zagoritsani there were 32 refugee families from Pontus. The Greek census (1928) recorded 735 village inhabitants. There were 33 refugee families (112 people) in 1928.

In 1945, Greek Foreign Minister Ioannis Politis ordered the compilation of demographic data regarding the Prefecture of Kastoria. The village Vasileiada had a total of 1136 inhabitants, and was populated by 910 Slavophones with a Bulgarian national consciousness.

Notable people

 * Dimitar Blagoev (1856–1924), Bulgarian political leader and philosopher
 * Anastas Yankov (1857–1906), Bulgarian Army officer
 * Maslina Grancharova (1874–1958), Bulgarian teacher and revolutionary