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{{Infobox Greece place
|name = Pisoderi
|name_local = Πισοδέρι
|type = community
|image_skyline = Pisoderi.jpg
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|periph = [[Western Macedonia]]
|periphunit = [[Florina (regional unit)|Florina]]
|municipality = [[Prespes]]
|municunit = [[Prespes]]
|population_as_of = 2021
|population = 17
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[[File:Lift Viglas.jpg|thumb|180px|Vigla]]
'''Pisoderi''' ({{langx|el|Πισοδέρι}}; {{langx|rup|Pisuderea}}) is a village 17 km west of [[Florina]], [[Greece]]. Nearby, 5 km away, is the [[ski resort]] Vigla.

The ski center is located on [[Verno|Mount Verno]], and currently has five lifts and ten trails. The summit of the resort is 1939m above sea level, with a total vertical drop about 420m. The resort has a view of the [[Lake Prespa]], on the border between [[Greece]], [[Albania]] and [[Republic of North Macedonia|North Macedonia]].

First mentioned in an Ottoman [[defter]] of 1481, the village, then known as ''Ipsoder'', had only twelve households.<ref>{{cite book |last= Kravari|first=Vassiliki |title=Villes et villages de Macédoine occidentale |series= Réalités byzantines|volume=2|year=1989|publisher= Editions P. Lethielleux|location= Paris| page = 270 |language=French |isbn=2-283-60452-4}}</ref> During Ottoman times, the village was purely [[Aromanians|Aromanian]].<ref>[https://repository.ukim.mk/bitstream/20.500.12188/6782/1/The_war_of_numbers_and_its_first_victim.pdf The War of Numbers and its First Victim: The Aromanians in Macedonia (End of 19th – Beginning of 20th century)]</ref>

Pisoderi had 30 inhabitants in 1981.<ref name="VanB"/> In fieldwork done by anthropologists in the 1990s, Pisoderi was populated by Aromanians.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kahl |first=Thede |title=Ethnizität und räumliche Verbreitung der Aromunen in Südosteuropa. |year=1999 |location=Münster |pages=139}}</ref><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: Pisoderi, 30; V, V1; V = Valaques (Aroumains), V = valaque (aroumain)"</ref>

==Notable people==
* [[Lazaros Tsamis]] (1878–1933), merchant and Macedonian Struggle fighter

==Notes==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060610175541/http://vigla-ski.gr/ Pisoderi website (Greek)]
* [http://www.snowguide.gr]
* [http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Vigla.shtml Weather forecast]

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[[Category:Populated places in Florina (regional unit)]]
[[Category:Prespes]]
[[Category:Aromanian settlements in Greece]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Western Macedonia]]
[[Category:Ski areas and resorts in Greece]]

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