Kallithea (, before 1928: Ρούδαρι – Roudari) is a village in the Florina Regional Unit in West Macedonia, Greece.
The church of St. Athanasius was built in the 19th century. "St. Athanasios in Kallithea (nineteenth c.). The church of St. Athanasios is situated on a hill, to the northwest of the village Kallithea (Roudari) in the Prespa Lakes area" The main agricultural crop grown in the village are beans.
Demographics In the early 1900s, 270 Slavonic speaking Christians lived in the village. After the Greek Civil War, only 10 Macedonian speaking families remained and the abandoned houses of those that fled were settled by Aromanians. "Рудари.... Во 1900 год. имало ок. 270 жит. М... Во Рудари по револуцијата има само ок. 10 мак. семејства. Во напуштените куќи од избеганите Македонци живеат Власи." They were from a group of nomadic transhumant Aromanians known as the Arvanitovlachs, and the Greek government assisted them to settle in depopulated villages of the Prespa region like Kallithea during the 1950s. The Aromanians originated from Giannitsa and the region of Epirus. "1,700 Vlach nomad pastoralists were resettled in Prespa. Those from Epirus and Yiannitsa were resettled in Ayios Germanos and Kallithea"
Kallithea had 170 inhabitants in 1981. In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Kallithea was populated by Aromanians and Slavophones. Table 3: Kallithea, 170; V, S; V = Valaques (Aroumains), S = Slavophones"
References
External links Prespes website