Karaferye (Qara Ferye) is the Ottoman Turkish name for Veroia (ancient Beroea), a town in the Central Macedonia Region of today’s northern Greece. Historical sources record its existence from at least the sixth century B.C.E. In the seventh/thirteenth and eighth/fourteenth centuries, the Soultanos family (Christian descendants of the Rum Selçuk (Rūm Saljūq) sultan İzzeddin Keykavus (ʿIzz al-Dīn Kaykāʾūs) II, r. 643–60/1246–62) resided in the town and owned property in the surrounding area.

Veroia was first captured by the Ottomans circa 789/1387 and conquered defini…