Chalara (, before 1927: Podovista – Ποδοβίστα) is a village and a community in Kastoria Regional Unit, Macedonia, Greece.
In 1945, Greek Foreign Minister Ioannis Politis ordered the compilation of demographic data regarding the Prefecture of Kastoria.. The village Chalara had a total of 723 inhabitants, and was populated by 700 Slavophones with a Bulgarian national consciousness. "Χαλάρα, Πληθυσμός: 723, Σλαυόφωνοι: 700, Συνείδησις Βουλγαρική: ναι" The inhabitants spoke the Dolna Koreshcha variant of the Kostur dialectБкагой Щклифов. Костурският говор, София, 1973, стр. 8
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