Vlachogianni (Greek: Βλαχογιάννι, Greek pronunciation:[vlaxo'ʝani]) is a village and a community of the Elassona municipality, in Greece.[2] Before the 2011 local government reform it was a part of the municipality of Potamia, of which it was a municipal district and the seat.[2][3] The community of Vlachogianni covers an area of 33.974 km2.[4]
History
In the Ottoman tahrir defteri (number 101) of 1521, the settlement is recorded as a village with the name İvlahoyan.[5] In 1531, Vlachogianni is mentioned in an Ottomanbey's will.[3] In the end of the 16th century the main occupation of the people's residents was the cultivation of Cannabis sativa.[3] In the beginning of the 19th century the village became a chiflik of Ali Pasha.[3]
In the early 1900s, Vlachogianni was being used as a winter residence by semi-nomadicAromanians; they were Farsherots, and Pindeans from certain villages in the region of Grevena. Between 1913 and 1914, there were 268 Aromanians that were wintering in Vlachogianni, out of a total population of 689 residents.[6]
^Ünal, Uğur; Budak, Mustafa; Bayram, Sabahattin; Yıldıztaş, Mümin (2013). Özkılınç, Ahmet; Coşkun, Ali; Sivridağ, Abdullah (eds.). Osmanlı Yer Adları I: Rumeli Eyaleti (1514–1550) (in Turkish). Ankara: Directorate of State Archives. pp. VII–VIII, 42, 409. ISBN978-975-19-6238-6. p. 409: İvlahoyan k., Alasonya n., Alasonya kz., Tırhala l.: TD 101/64
^Koukoudis, Asterios (2001). Οι Ολύμπιοι Βλάχοι και τα Βλαχομογλενά (in Greek). Ekdoseis Zitros. pp. 55, 70, 197–198. ISBN9789607760517. OCLC44914571. Οι Ολύμπιοι Βλάχοι, 1900–1912 [map][...] Αν μάλιστα αναλογιστούμε πως οι ετήσιες εποχιακές μετακινήσεις των ημινομάδων κτηνοτρόφων, ιδιαίτερα από τα βλαχοχώρια της Βόρειας Πίνδου – Γρεβενών, τους έφερναν κάθε χρόνο στους πρόποδες του Ολύμπου, στα χωριά και τα χειμαδιά της Ελασσόνας και της Ποταμιάς, μπορούμε να κατανοήσουμε αυτή τη συνεχή και αδιάκοπη επαφή.[...] Το 1913–14, μετά την απελευθέρωση, και σύμφωνα με εκθέσεις των κατά τόπους δασκάλων, στην επαρχία Ελασσόνας αναφέρονται παραχειμάζοντες ή μόνιμα εγκατεστημένοι Βλάχοι κάτοικοι στα εξής χωριά.[...] Στο Βλαχογιάννι υπήρχαν 689 κάτοικοι, από αυτούς οι 268 ήταν παραχειμάζοντες Βλάχοι.