 Of the 480 families of the time, only 40 remained in Bulgaria, while 100 settled in the village of Hambarköy near Kilkis, which was renamed Mandres in their honour, while the others populated other villages in Greek Macedonia and Western Thrace.The Bulgarian government settled Bulgarian refugees from Thrace and Macedonia (from the region of Edessa).In 1929, another wave of emigration to Greece followed.