At the beginning of the 20th century, Greek photographer Leonidas Papazoglou took pictures of the inhabitants of Kastoria, or Kesriye, as it is known to the Turks. In these two photos, you can see a Turkish father with his children (1) and the Mufti of Kesriye with his little daughter (2).
Kesriye is city in Greece, close to the North Macedonian and Albanian borders. It is located in the region of Macedonia. Slavs, Greeks, and Turks have traditionally lived in the city, and various sources also mention a Roma population professing Islam, Jews, and Albanians. It was conquered in 1385 by the Ottomans and thus ended the Byzantine rule in the city. At the end of Ottoman rule, Kesriye possessed seven mosques, two religious schools, one primary school, two secondary schools, two hammams, and three tekkes. According to Konstantinos Vakalopoulos in 1850, Turks represented 8% of the population. According to the "Ethnography of the vilayets of Adrianople, Monastir, and Thessaloniki published in 1878, Muslims represented 49% of the population. Kanchov gives different statistics (1900) - Greeks are the majority, followed by Turks, representing 26% of the city, and then Jews, Bulgarians, Albanians, and Roma Muslims respectively. According to Greek statistics, in 1905 the town was mixed Greek-Turkish, with Greeks numbering 6,000 and Turks 1,250. Georgi Bistritzki claims that before the Balkan Wars, Turks represented 20% of the city, and Zlatko Karatanasov - 25%. The last statistics before the Population Exchange were from 1921 when Turkey and Greece were at war. Serbian Borivoe Milovich claims that Turks were 40% of the city's population.
During the Population Exchange, the Kasriye Turks were driven to Nigde, Amasya, Tokat, and Antalya.
