Archangelos (, before 1925: Όσσιανη – ''Ossiani'';
) is a village and part of the
Exaplatanos
Exaplatanos (; Macedonian: Капињани, ''Kapinjani'';Todor Hristov Simovski, ''The Inhabited Places of the Aegean Macedonia'' (Skopje 1998), , p. 90. ) is a village and a former municipality in the Pella regional unit, Greece. Since the 201 ...
municipal unit in the
Pella regional unit of
Macedonia
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* Macedonia (ancient kingdom), a kingdom in Greek antiquity
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,
Greece
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, near
Aridaia
Aridaía (, , ) is a town and a former Municipalities and communities of Greece, municipality in the Pella (regional unit), Pella regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the Almopia municipality, of which ...
. The village is known for its
monastery
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of
Saint Michael
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, in which many monks occupy themselves with the painting of
icon
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s. The inhabitants of Archangelos mainly make their living out of the cultivation of cherries. The town is not widely known among tourists, though there are a few B&B's, shops and bars.
Archangelos had 709 inhabitants in 1981.
In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Archangelos was populated by
Vlachs
Vlach ( ), also Wallachian and many other variants, is a term and exonym used from the Middle Ages until the Modern Era to designate speakers of Eastern Romance languages living in Southeast Europe—south of the Danube (the Balkan peninsula ...
.
The Vlach language was used by people of all ages, both in public and private settings, and as the main language for interpersonal relationships.
Some elderly villagers had little knowledge of Greek.
[ Table 4: Archangelos, 709; V, V1; V = Valaques (Aroumains), V = valaque (aroumain)"] People in the village are Meglen Vlachs or
Megleno-Romanians
The Megleno-Romanians, also known as Meglenites (), Moglenite Vlachs or simply Vlachs (), are an Eastern Romance ethnic group, originally inhabiting seven villages in the Moglena region spanning the Pella and Kilkis regional units of Central ...
.
[Kahl, Thede (2014)]
Geographische Überlegungen zur Siedlungsgeschichte der meglenitischen Vlachen
In: ''Романистика и балканистика. Збoрник на трудови во чест на проф. д-р Петар Атанасов по повод 75 години од животот'', eds. М. Алексоска-Чкатроска & Ј. Х.-Л. Христоска, 329. Скопjе: Филолошки факултет Блаже Конески.
References
Example of Megleno-Romanian speech from the village of Archangelos recorded by Andreea Pascaru, retrieved from th
Meglen VLACH collection of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Populated places in Pella (regional unit)
Almopia
Megleno-Romanian settlements
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