Реч је била искључиво о Егејској Македонији, односно о подручју које је припало Грцима.
1) (Modern) Hellenes of Macedonia = Cincari ("Vlachs" / "Roumans")
2)
Arthur Evans (in an open letter to The Times on October 1st, 1903.):
The truth is that a large number of those described as Greeks are really Roumans. Till within recent years Hellenism found a fertile field for propaganda among the representatives of the gifted Romance speaking race of the Pindus region. Today Janina has quite forgotten its Rouman origin, and has become a center of Hellenism. Athens, the nearest civilized centre, offered natural attraction to the quick-witted mercantile element in the towns. But, for good or evil, the tide has turned. A counter-propaganda, of which Bukarest is the center, has made itself felt, and the Rouman civic element east of Pindus is probably lost to Hellenism, notwithstanding the fact that much money is expended by Greek committees in the endeavor to gain recruits for Greek nationality. Parents are actually paid to send their children to Greek schools.
3)
Source -> Wace, A., Thomson, B., (1914), The Nomads of the Balkans:
Page 30: "The
Kupatshari are hellenized or semi-hellenized Vlachs. That is to say that through intermarriage and the influence of the church and Greek education they have abandoned their native language. They still however
retain the Vlach national costume, and many Vlach words occur in their dialect as well as many non-Greek sounds such as sh, zh, tsh, and dzh. They
inhabit the district between Ghrevena and the pure Vlach villages of Pindus. At one of their villages, Labanitsa, which is only half hellenized
we obtained some insight as to the process by which denationalisation occurs. In the school and church Greek is the only language used. All the older men in the village know Vlach and so do many of the women."
Page 45: "They are called Kupatshari, "men of the oak tree" (kupatshu being Vlach for oak tree), because the district Grevena is covered in oak scrub and forest. The people of the highest of their villages, such as Kipourio and Philippaei..."
Page 46: "...and
in Shatishta and Kozhani in which two latter towns the hellenized Vlachs form the strongest part of the Greek population."
4)
Source -> The Close Racial Kinship Between the Greeks, Bulgarians, and Turks: Macedonia and Thrace By Dr. George Nakratzas; Pages 76, 77, & 85:
i) "Once they had embraced the agricultural life, the Kupatshari became Hellenised to such an extent that, by 1912, the Aromunian or Vlach language was spoken only by the old people. Today, the young Kupatshari are not even aware of their Vlach origins. Many Kupatshari moved to urban centres, where such surnames as Koupatsaras, Koupatsaris, and Koupassaris still survive."
ii) "In the Grevena area, there was one more interesting group of Vlachs, the Turko-Vlach Valahades, who lived alongside the Kupatshari. There were about 12,000 of them, and they lived in the low foothills of the Pindos near Siatista. Until 1924, when they left for Turkey under the terms of the exchange of populations, they spoke Greek. ... The fact that the Valahades lived in close proximity to the Kupatshari offers evidence of their Kupatshari origins."
iii) "On all the ethnological maps of the nineteenth century, the inhabitants of the Grevena area are described as being of Greek origin. They were Greek-speakers, certainly ... but their Greek origin is a matter of some doubt.
Serious evidence of their non-Greek origin is furnished by the Athenian bishop Bardanes, who in 1210 elected to go to the see of Grevena, on the grounds that the local people did not speak Greek and were uncivilised."
iv) "There is no mention of Vlachs having migrated to the Kozani tableland. The people of this area were almost exclusively Turks from Konya, with the exception of
the inhabitants of Kozani itself, who were mostly of Vlach origin."
v) "Kozani and Veria are separated by Mount Vermion, where the Vlachs of the Vermion group lived. ... The Vlach villages are: Volanda, Kato Seli, Ano Seli, Maroussa, Doliani, Xirolivadi, Kastania, and Tsarkovian. The inhabitants of the Vermion villages originally came from Moskhopoli, Samarina, Avdela and Frasheri, and settled here after 1770..."