Have you found anything about the slavic villages of Larisa and Volos region?
I am very interested about references on the movements of slavic populations, especially at around 1500-1600 AD.
Unfortunately, I have not found anything about slavophone villages of Larissa and Volos areas. These regions, and the inhabitants (modern
ethnic Greeks) of these regions, are mostly of Vlach origin (of varied Vlach groups, such as Sarakatsani, Koupatsiari, Arvanitovlachs - but there are others as well). A while back I found a site that talked about the origin of the residents of
Makrychori village, which is located in the regional unit of Larissa.
There were some families from slavophone villages of Macedonia that at some point settled in Makrychori:
Families from slavophone villages of Macedonia: Zisis, Korovesis, Kotsopoulos, Tourlakopoulos.
The URL was this (it no longer exists):
http://hellas.teipir.gr/thesis/larisa/makrixori/english/en_family.htm
Here is the list:
Families of Sarakatsanaioi (
Hellenized Vlachs): Vovousas, Georgakis, Evagelopoulos, Katsigiannis, Kolonas, Kontokostas, Koutelodas, Mandalos (they are in Australia) Milios, Mitsigiannis, Boutos, Liapis, Nasiaras, Parlatzas, Pelekoudas, Tsiakos, Stathis, Haidarlis, Hytas.
Families of Vlachs from Zagori: Ilos, Samoladas, Photiou.
Families of Vlachs from Kokonopilos: Bekiaris, Belogias, Bourojikas, Fakas.
Families of Vlachs from Perivoli: Saiti, Andreou, Vlagas, Voulagas, Dardakoulis, Zoulfou, Karategos, Mpolias, Mourtzilas, Bellos, Nastos Naris, Palatos, Fousikas, Seligounas, Puspurikas, Poutsiakas, Rombas, Stamatis, Tikos, Teas, Topis, Sympetheris, Skribas.
Families of Vlachs from Samarina: Avelas, Agorogiannis, Vrazitikos, Gerasis, Gabetas, Gravanis, Ligouras, Lioupas,
Samaras*, Sarmaniotis, Stimoniaris, Tsaknakis.
Families of Albanian - Vlachs (
Arvanitovlachs): Gotsis, Maramis, Nitsikas, Nonas (the family of Nonas sold its houses and moved to the village Vrodero at Prespes, after the civil war. The time the Greek state wanted to settle some border settlements, that were abandoned, so it offered financial motivations to the settlers).
Families of Vlachs from Kalarites: Goutzamanis, Koukouthakis, Barboutis, Berkos, Sakavitsis, Sakogiannis.
There is also the family of Gramoustianos they are Vlachs who came from the village Grammos.
Families of Karagounides (
another branch of Vlachs): Anagnostou, Argiriou, Kostopoulos. Papadimitriou, Patsiouras, Rizopoulos, Simopoulos, Stratopoulos.
Families of Albanians (
Arvanites): Lazos, Dionisiou, Lazarou, Papakrivos, Rahovas, Stogiannis, Triantafyllou, Halatsis, Hristou.
Families of Koupatsiaraioi (
Hellenized Vlachs, originally from a specific area of Macedonia): Barlagiannis, Gatzioulis, Ziogas, Latsios, Lolas, Kanias, Papahristos, Pitsiavas.
Families from slavophone villages of Macedonia: Zisis, Korovesis, Kotsopoulos, Tourlakopoulos.
PS:
When I saw the surname
Samaras above it made me wonder if Antonis Samaras (who was Prime Minister of Greece from 2012 to 2015) was somehow connected to the Vlachs as well...
And then I found this:
https://nepirusonline.blogspot.ca/2012/03/blog-post_532.html
The name of the article is "Edi Rama, Boris Tadic and Antonis Samaras are Vlachs according to N. Mertzos".
It also appears in
http://www.kathimerini.gr/729311/op...eio-monimes-sthles/propaganda-me-toys-vlaxoys too.
