{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}} {{Infobox Greek Dimos |name = Vrontero |name_local = Βροντερό |type = community |image_skyline = |caption_skyline = |city_flag = |city_seal = |coordinates = {{coord|40|44|30|N|21|1|3|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |elevation_min = |elevation_max = |periph = Western Macedonia |periphunit = Florina |municipality = Prespes |municunit = Prespes |population_as_of = 2021 |population = 46 |area = |postal_code = |area_code = |licence = |website = }} '''Vrontero''' ({{langx|el|Βροντερό}}, before 1926: Γκράσδενι – ''Gkrasdeni'')<ref name="pandektisGkVr">{{Cite web|author=Institute for Neohellenic Research|title=Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Gkrasdeni – Vronteron|url=http://pandektis.ekt.gr/pandektis/handle/10442/170941|website=Pandektis|access-date=30 March 2022}}</ref> is a village in the Florina Regional Unit in Western Macedonia, Greece.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Balkan Vernacular Architecture : Vrontero - Greece |url=http://www.balkanarchitecture.org/greece/vrontero1.php |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=www.balkanarchitecture.org}}</ref>
== Demographics == In the early 1900s, 276 Slavonic speaking Christians lived in the village.<ref name="Wlodzimierz140"/> Aromanians settled in the village in 1949.<ref name="Wlodzimierz140">{{cite book|last=Włodzimierz|first=Pianka|title=Toponomastikata na Ohridsko-Prespanskiot bazen|year=1970|publisher=Institut za makedonski jazik "Krste Misirkov"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ELRAAAAMAAJ&q=%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BE|page=140}} "Граждено... По 1949 год. е населено со Власи. Во 1900 год. имало 276 жит. М."</ref> They were a group of nomadic transhumant Aromanians (known as the Arvanitovlachs) originating from Thessaly and the Greek government assisted their settlement into depopulated villages of the Prespa region like Vrontero.<ref name="Koukoudis304"/><ref name="Vatsikopoulos430">{{cite journal|last=Vatsikopoulos|first=Helen|title=Memories of Abandonment and Ruination in Prespa, Greek Macedonia|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/765954|journal=Journal of Modern Greek Studies|volume=38|issue=2|year=2020|page=430|doi=}} "1,700 Vlach nomad pastoralists were resettled in Prespa. Those from Epirus and Yiannitsa were resettled in Ayios Germanos and Kallithea; others, from Thessaly, were moved to Vrondero and Pyli" </ref> Aromanians are the only inhabitants of the village.<ref name="Koukoudis304">{{cite book|last=Koukoudis|first=Asterios|title=The Vlachs: Metropolis and Diaspora|year=2003|publisher=Zitros Publications|isbn=9789607760869|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=01JoAAAAMAAJ&q=Vrondero|page=304}}</ref>
Vrontero had 172 inhabitants in 1981.<ref name="VanB"/> In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Vrontero was populated by Aromanians.<ref name="VanB"/> The Aromanian language was used by people of all ages, both in public and private settings, and as the main language for interpersonal relationships.<ref name="VanB"/> Some elderly villagers had little knowledge of Greek.<ref name="VanB">{{cite journal|last=Van Boeschoten|first=Riki|title=Usage des langues minoritaires dans les départements de Florina et d'Aridea (Macédoine)|trans-title=Use of minority languages in the departments of Florina and Aridea (Macedonia)|language=fr|url=http://journals.openedition.org/strates/381|journal=Strates|volume=10|year=2001|at=}} Table 3: Vrondero, 172; V, V1; V = Valaques (Aroumains), V = valaque (aroumain)"</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.prespes.gr/ Prespes website]
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Category:Populated places in Florina (regional unit) Category:Prespes