Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 edition, the first settlers of the city were Turks following the conquest of Macedonia by the Ottoman Empire. The Turks remained the majority until the population exchange of 1924. Between 1924 and 1926, Greeks escaping from Anatolia settled here and became the majority. The current municipal unit of Ptolemaida is constituted by the city of Ptolemaida and 11 small communities. At the 2011 census, the population of the city was 32,142 residents. The total population of the municipality Eordaia in 2011 was 45,592 residents. Geography The city lies in the valley of Eordaia, between the Askio mountains to the southwest and the Vermio mountains to the northeast. It is located north of Kozani, east of Kastoria, south of Florina, and south-west of Edessa. The municipal unit has an area of 217.901 km2, the community (the city proper) has an area of 57.508 km2. Motorway 27 (Kozani-Florina, part of E65) passes east of the city. Ptolemaida was the seat of the former province of Eordaia. Friendship towns Ptolemaida is twinned with: Enkomi, Cyprus People Pantelis Kapetanos, football player Ieroklis Michailidis, actor Stiliani Papadopoulou, hammer thrower Iordanis Konstantinidis, Greco-Roman wrestler Mazlum Kayalar , Turkish Politician Yıldız Eruçman,Yıldız Kayalar Eruçman (born 1919) was the first Turkish female parachutist. See also Battle of Ptolemaida List of settlements in the Kozani regional unit References External links Ptolemaida news Weather station of the National Observatory of Athens in Ptolemaida Populated places in Kozani (regional unit) Former municipalities in Western Macedonia 1566 establishments in Europe