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244 John nandriŞ
M.M. hasluck and G.M. Morant 13 in the course of their scrupulously
scientific anthropological studies in Macedonia in the 1920s noted that
the Vlah villages of northern Greece, while fewer in number than those of
others such as the Greeks, were much larger, by a factor of 6.7. they also
transcended the distributional boundary between the Greek villages to the
south of the haliakmon and the villages of the Macedonians to the north of
it. Gordon Childe opined that the archaeological distributions of the oldest
forms are the most widespread.
Vlah settlements on mountain passes [Aminciu/Metsovo], across
ravines [siracu or calarli] or hidden in hollows up the mountains [Şiatişte/
Siatista], were predicated on the connectivity of highland zone exploitation,
even if their placement also served very well to inhibit the taxman. the
Aromân villages contained the most substantial stone houses in Greece,
as at Aminciu [Metsovo], călarli, or siracu, to name but three of the
considerable villages in the pindus. these looked ultimately to the 18th
century Vlah metropolis of Moschopolje. the houses had very distinctive
gable ends, and often little round windows. the streets were neatly paved,
and lined with the broad drainage channels demanded by highland zone
rainfall; a feature they shared with the Dacian builders of Sarmizegetusa.
the distinctive stone houses of Moschopolje in 1767.
(Averoff library, Metsovo–Aminciu)
13 “Measurements of Macedonian Men”. Biometrika, 21, no. 1/4, (1929) : 322-6.