a fascist Vlach state the Principality of Pindus. It is possible that the idea of autonomy struck a chord in some nationalistic Vlach breasts but they certainly were not the collaborators he accused them of being. The author finds the precedents of Diamandi's movement in the Aromanians' desire of separateness, which he sees as a sign of "strength". He writes: Up to the 1920s the Vlakholoi - the Vlach clan as it were- had been so strong that the government could not really interfere with them. There had been Romanian schools (financed from Romania from around the Treaty of Berlin in 1881 which forced the Turks to cede Thessaly to Greece, drawing the frontier through Metsovo and thus dividing the Greek Vlachdom in Yannina, Thessaloniki and Grevena up until 1940. In fact, there was one in Samarina itself. References Bibliography Evangelos Averof-Tositsas, Η πολιτική πλευρά του κουτσοβλαχικού ζητήματος ["The political aspects of the Aromanian question"], Trikala reprint 1992 (1st edition Athens 1948), p. 94 Stauros A. Papagiannis, Τα παιδιά της λύκαινας. Οι "επίγονοι" της 5ης Ρωμαϊκής Λεγεώνας κατά την διάρκεια της Κατοχής 1941-1944 ["Wolf children. The "descendants" of the 5th Roman Legion during the occupation 1941-1944"], Athens, 1998 Anthemidis, Axilleas, The Vlachs of Greece. Thessaloniki: Malliaris 1998 (Greek). Tim Salmon, Unwritten Places, Athens Lycabettus Press, 1995 (see p. 149 and 215) T. J. Winnifrith, The Vlachs: The History of a Balkan People, Palgrave Macmillan, 1987 Kahl, Thede, Ethnizität und räumliche Verteilung der Aromunen in Südosteuropa, Münstersche geographische Arbeiten, 43, Münster 1999. (see pp. 55–56 on Diamandi) Koliopoulos, John, Greece: The Modern Sequel, Hurst 2001 1893 births 1948 deaths Aromanian people Aromanian politicians Aromanian military personnel Aromanian nationalists Greek people of Aromanian descent Aromanians from the Ottoman Empire Greek politicians Greek collaborators with Fascist Italy Separatists Romanian fascists Recipients of Greek royal pardons Prisoners who died in Romanian detention People from Grevena (regional unit)