GREEK EDUCATION IN MONASTIR - PELAGONIA

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Figure 5.”Ekklesiastiki Aletheia”, 1907, page 139
In 1886 there were in Monastir “a total of 13 schools with 1646 pupils”
(a gymnasium and teacher-training school with 136 students, an Orthodox
Seminary with 43 students, a ‘Greek School’ with 572 students, 2 elementary
schools with 100 pupils, a girls’ school with an enrolment of 300, and 3
nursery schools with 354 children). 25
Towards the end of the 19 th century two new primary schools (astikes
scholes) were founded in Monastir, one for boys and one for girls. 26 The city
also had nine nursery schools and five elementary schools (one for girls and
four for boys). 27
In 1900 a total of 2800 children were enrolled in the Greek schools of
Monastir, whose exemplary teachers included the “invincibly Hellenist
Gymnasium Headmaster Tzoumetikos, and no prefectural capital in Free
25. Ioannis . Kalostypis, Macedonia, 60.
26. Stephanos . Papadopoulos, Educational and social action, 134, 171.
27. Stephanos . Papadopoulos, Educational and social action, 134.