According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov ("Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics"), 360 MuslimAlbanians lived in the village in 1900.[4]
The 1920 Greek census recorded 487 people in the village, and 447 inhabitants (80 families) were Muslim in 1923.[5] Following the Greek–Turkish population exchange, Greek refugee families in Vartholom were from Asia Minor (3), Pontus (41) and the Caucasus (51) in 1926.[5] The 1928 Greek census recorded 219 village inhabitants.[5] In 1928, the refugee families numbered 94 (353 people).[5] The village mosque with a tall minaret was destroyed.[6]
Agios Vartholomaios had 200 inhabitants in 1981.[7] In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Agios Vartholomaios was populated by a Greek population descended from Anatolian Greek refugees who arrived during the population exchange.[7]Pontic Greek was spoken by people over 60, mainly in private.[7]
^ abcVan Boeschoten, Riki (2001). "Usage des langues minoritaires dans les départements de Florina et d'Aridea (Macédoine)" [Use of minority languages in the departments of Florina and Aridea (Macedonia)]. Strates (in French). 10. Table 1: Réfugiés grecs; Footnote 2: Le terme « réfugié » est utilisé ici pour désigner les Grecs d’Asie Mineure qui se sont établis en Grèce dans les années vingt après l’échange de population entre la Turquie et la Grèce (Traité de Lausanne, 1924); Table 3: Ag. Vartholom, 200; R, P3; R = Refugiés, P = dialecte pontique"