Sarakatsani
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Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Sarakatsani
- Ethnic group.image
- 230px
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- Sarakatsani children in Kotel, Bulgaria
- Ethnic group.population
- Unknown
- Ethnic group.region1
- Greece
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 80,000 (1950s est.)
- Ethnic group.region2
- Bulgaria
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 2,071 (2021) – 15,000 (1992 est.)
- Ethnic group.languages
- Greek
- Ethnic group.religions
- Greek Orthodoxy
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Article
16 sectionsContents
- Name
- History and origin
- Accounts
- Sarakatsani and Aromanians
- Culture
- Language
- Kinship and honor of the kindred
- Religion
- Pastoralism
- Demographics
- Rootlessness and ritualization
- Notable Sarakatsani
- Gallery
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
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The Sarakatsani (), also called Karakachani (), are an ethnic Greek population subgroup who were traditionally transhumant shepherds, native to Greece, with a smaller presence in neighbouring Bulgaria, southern Albania, and North Macedonia. Historically centred on the Pindus mountains and other mountain ranges in continental Greece, most Sarakatsani have abandoned the transhumant way of life and have been urbanised.