Mikrolivado

Community in Greece

Mikrolivado Μικρολίβαδο Labanitsã
Community
39°56.9′N 21°14.3′E / 39.9483°N 21.2383°E / 39.9483; 21.2383
Country	Greece
Administrative region	Western Macedonia
Regional unit	Grevena
Municipality	Grevena
Municipal unit	Gorgiani
Area
• Community	13.851 km² (5.348 sq mi)
Elevation	810 m (2,660 ft)
Population (2021)^[1]
• Community	26
• Density	1.9/km² (4.9/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	510 31
Area code(s)	+30-2462
Vehicle registration	PN

Mikrolivado (Greek: Μικρολίβαδο, before 1927: Λαβάνιτσα – Lavanitsa;^[2] Aromanian: Labanitsã) is a village and a community of the Grevena municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was a part of the municipality of Gorgiani, of which it was a municipal district.^[3] The 2021 census recorded 26 residents in the village.^[1] The community of Mikrolivado covers an area of 13.851 km².^[4]

Aromanians (Vlachs) and Greeks populated Mikrolivado.^[5]^[6]^[7] Population statistics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries listed Mikrolivado as a Vlach village.^[6] In 1904, it was described as Vlach with 15 families by the Orthodox Grevena diocese.^[6] Scholars Alan Wace and Maurice Thompson in 1911 visited the region and stated elderly inhabitants of Mikrolivado spoke Aromanian, while the youth were Greek speakers due to assimilation and mixed marriages.^[6] Over time the Aromanian population in Mikrolivado was assimilated.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
^ Institute for Neohellenic Research. "Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Lavanitsa – Mikrolivadon". Pandektis. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
^ "ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities" (in Greek). Government Gazette.
^ "Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)" (PDF) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-21.
^ Exarchos, Giorgis; Lazarou, Achilleus G. (2001). Οι Ελληνοβλάχοι (Αρμανοί) [The Greek Vlachs (Aromanians)]. Ekdoseis Kastaniote. p. 207. ISBN 9789600327847.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Koukoudis, Asterios (2003). The Vlachs: Metropolis and Diaspora. Zitros Publications. p. 196. ISBN 9789607760869. "One possible exception is Mikrolivado (Labanítsă), where there is stronger evidence that Vlachs and Greki lived together and the Vlachs were gradually assimilated. In fact, in a report issued by the Diocese of Grevena in 1904, Mikrolivado is specifically included among the Vlach villages, with fifteen Vlach families. When Wace and Thompson passed through the area in 1911, they found that the elderly residents of Mikrolivado were still speaking Vlach, while the children owing to intermarriage and natural assimilation, now spoke only Greek. In fact, Mikrolivado is recorded as a Vlach village in several records of population statistics compiled in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century."
^ Minov, Nikola (2012). "The War of Numbers and its First Victim: The Aromanians in Macedonia (End of 19th – Beginning of 20th century)" (PDF). Macedonian Historical Review. 3: 162.