Семејството Jоновски и селото Oрово од 18 до 20 век - Jonovski Family and the Village of Orovo from 18 to 20th Century

Abstract

Jonovski family originates from the village of Orovo in Small Prespa Lake Region, in Aegean Macedonia, today most North West point of Greece. The oldest known ancestor is Joshe born around 1766. This article covers 8 generations and 40 individuals (mentioning a further 30) in a period of over two centuries. In 1926 Greek government the changed village name to Pixos and the family name to Joanidis. The village was destroyed and depopulated during the Greek Civil War (1946-1949). The remaining family reunited in Wroclaw, Poland. And then moved to Skopje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia in 1968. The story is mostly based on the narratives of two brothers Boris Jonovski (1904-2007) and Alexander Yovanovski (1912-2004). Originally in the Ottoman Empire and then Greece, the life of the family also span to the USA, Australia, Albania, France, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the USSR, Yugoslavia, and the Republic of Macedonia.