Agia Paraskevi, Aspropotamos


Agia Paraskevi is a village and a community of the Kalabaka municipality. Since the 2011 local government reform it was part of the community of Aspropotamos, of which it was a communal district. The 2011 census recorded 69 residents in the village. The community of Agia Paraskevi covers an area of 29.641 km2.

Vlachs in Agia Paraskevi

The local Greek Vlachs of Agia Paraskevi call themselves armâń gurțań. A particularity of the Aromanian dialect in Agia Paraskevi, who speak a Pindus dialect, is that they have preserved the Latin word for flower, floare, as opposed to the majority of Aromanians that call it lilice or chitcă. They are all Orthodox Christians who worship at the Meteora monasteries located nearby to the village.