Kallithea, Florina

In the early 1900s, 270 Slavonic speaking Christians lived in the village.^[5] After the Greek Civil War, only 10 Macedonian speaking families remained and the abandoned houses of those that fled were settled by Aromanians.^[5] 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.^[6] The Aromanians originated from Giannitsa and the region of Epirus.^[7]

Kallithea had 170 inhabitants in 1981.^[8] In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Kallithea was populated by Aromanians and Slavophones.^[8]

• Prespes website