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Kallithea Καλλιθέα
Community
Kallithea
Coordinates: 40°47′56″N 21°9′17″E / 40.79889°N 21.15472°E / 40.79889; 21.15472
Country	Greece
Administrative region	West Macedonia
Regional unit	Florina
Municipality	Prespes
Municipal unit	Prespes
Population
• Community	107
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Kallithea (Greek: Καλλιθέα, before 1928: Ρούδαρι – Roudari) is a village in the Florina Regional Unit in West Macedonia, Greece.

Demographics

In the early 1900s, 270 Slavonic speaking Christians lived in the village. After the Greek Civil War, only 10 Macedonian speaking families remained and the abandoned houses of those that fled were settled by Aromanians. They were from a group of nomadic transhumant Aromanians known as the Arvanitovlachs, and the Greek government assisted them to settle in depopulated villages of the Prespa region like Kallithea during the 1950s. The Aromanians originated from Giannitsa and the region of Epirus.

Kallithea had 170 inhabitants in 1981. In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Kallithea was populated by Aromanians and Slavophones.

References

1. "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
2. Institute for Neohellenic Research. "Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Roudari – Mikrolimni". Pandektis. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
3. ^ Włodzimierz, Pianka (1970). Toponomastikata na Ohridsko-Prespanskiot bazen. Institut za makedonski jazik "Krste Misirkov". p. 136. "Рудари.... Во 1900 год. имало ок. 270 жит. М... Во Рудари по револуцијата има само ок. 10 мак. семејства. Во напуштените куќи од избеганите Македонци живеат Власи."
4. Koukoudis, Asterios (2003). The Vlachs: Metropolis and Diaspora. Zitros Publications. p. 304. ISBN 9789607760869.
5. Vatsikopoulos, Helen (2020). "Memories of Abandonment and Ruination in Prespa, Greek Macedonia". Journal of Modern Greek Studies. 38 (2): 430. "1,700 Vlach nomad pastoralists were resettled in Prespa. Those from Epirus and Yiannitsa were resettled in Ayios Germanos and Kallithea"
6. ^ Van Boeschoten, Riki (2001). "Usage des langues minoritaires dans les départements de Florina et d'Aridea (Macédoine)" [Use of minority languages in the departments of Florina and Aridea (Macedonia)]. Strates (in French). 10. Table 3: Kallithea, 170; V, S; V = Valaques (Aroumains), S = Slavophones"

External links

• Prespes website

• Populated places in Florina (regional unit)
• Prespes