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Mpouka beach (pronounced Buka), right next to Velika beach, on the eastern side of mount Kissavos, Larisa. From 1:05 to 1:15 and 2:15 to 2:25 in this video. It is very noisy there because of the waves that hit the rocks at the edges of the beach. ;)

Thanks for the book! Well, as you probably already know, the state of Greece has done its best to erase all the slavic past of Greece. So, it's not easy to find such information here. It's not strange. In medieval times it was usual for enperors to move populations from one place to another. In...

Yes many of them are in use here as well. There are also others like bubniki = large insect, zuzulas= crazy guy, etc. Pliatsikas (initially written as Pliatzkas) is a common surname where I come from. The most common surname in my village when the Ottomans organised their first census in...

Yes, they must be related to Serbs. The village Servou must have been a small Serbian community initially. Taygetos had a strong slavic community that kept the slavic language up until recent centuries. The region where Slavs lived was known as Koutsava (maybe from kućava?).

Right below Makrinitsa there was another village called Kukurava (now considered as part of Makrinitsa). Zagora was not the name of Pilion. It is a large village on top of the mountain and it still has this name. Tsagarada, Potoki, Lehonia must also be slavic. Promiri, Sutrali, Damuhari could be...

There is no such thing. If it was so, Greece would own southern Italy (the so called "Magna Grecia"), northern Epirus, western Anatolia and maybe parts of Libya or Spain. The borders are designed by great powers and Greece is not one of them. The great powers did not want a slavic state in the...

You probably mean Roman / Romios? Most of Greece yes, yet there were still Greeks that refused to adopt the Roman identity and some foreigners/invaders, as the Goths. The Eastern Roman empire decided to create their own -orthodox christian- identity, banning anything that was related to the...

Not so accurate. Zervos - zerva is a medieval greek word meaning "left side", "in the shadow" and in some cases "unlucky" or "stupid". Families bearing the surname Zervas, Zervos are mostly Arvanites. Some others might also be of the latin word servus.

"Ossa" is only in the maps. Here everyone calls it KISSAVOS (ΚΙΣΣΑΒΟΣ). And mostly apples, cherries, hazelnuts, chestnuts are cultivated. Back in the past there was a great silk and textiles industry, that's why the village Retsani - Речани was renamed to Metaxohori (meaning "silk village")...

As far as i know, the first slavic tribes arrived in Thessaly during the 7th century. Then arrived the Bulgarians accompanied by the Vlachs/Aromanians. The last slavic migration was during the times of the Serbian empire, that also resulted in the migration of Arvanites from Thessaly and Epirus...

Kramaris, the greek version of Kramarić. A surname found only on the mountains of eastern Thessaly. What makes it very interesting is the fact that it comes from a word loan of slavic languages from Old or Middle High German, so it can't have come to Greece under the first slavic migrations. :)

There was an armatolos (hajduk) from my place that his name was written either as Pliatskas or Pliaskas. His son had signed a letter as Pliatzkas. I saw that in Serbian it is also written as pljaškaš, so i guess all forms must be equivalent.

I see that there is also a Pljačkovica close to the mountain. Is it the same toponym or something different?

I have noticed that the Serbian words pljačkaš - pljačka - pljačkati (pliatsiko and pliats(i)kas are word loans from them) sound similar to some words of northern slavic languages with some different meaning (like пляцко which means something like "dancing"). Is there any protoslavic word that...

In our region no. No refugees from Anatolia. In other parts of Thessaly there were some, but mostly people from western Anatolia - Ionia and not Pontos. Pontians were known as Lazi, which is the name Byzantines used for the nation today known as Georgians. But they are not exactly the same as...