Anavryta (, before 1927: Βραστόν – ''Vraston'') is a village and a community of the Grevena municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was a part of the municipality of

Theodoros Ziakas Theodoros Ziakas (; Mavronoros, Grevena, 1798 – Atalanti, 1882) was a chieftain in Macedonia during the Greek War of Independence in 1821. Biography His family were Armatoloi in Western Macedonia. When the Greek War of Independence broke out, T ...

, of which it was a municipal district. The 2021 census recorded 18 residents in the village. The community of Anavryta covers an area of 11.104 km². Vraston was populated by Greek speaking Muslim

Vallahades The Vallahades () or Valaades () are a Greek-speaking Muslim population who lived along the river Haliacmon in southwest Greek Macedonia, in and around Anaselitsa (modern Neapoli) and Grevena. They numbered about 17,000 in the early 20th centur ...

. The 1920 Greek census recorded 212 people in the village, and 212 inhabitants (40 families) were Muslim in 1923. Following the

Greek–Turkish population exchange The 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey stemmed from the "Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations" signed at Lausanne, Switzerland, on 30 January 1923, by the governments of Greece and Turkey. It involv ...

Greek refugee Greek refugees is a collective term used to refer to the more than one million Greek Orthodox natives of Asia Minor, Thrace and the Black Sea areas who fled during the Greek genocide (1914-1923) and Greece's later defeat in the Greco-Turkish War ( ...

families in Vraston were from

Asia Minor Anatolia (), also known as Asia Minor, is a peninsula in West Asia that makes up the majority of the land area of Turkey. It is the westernmost protrusion of Asia and is geographically bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean ...

(2) and

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(25) in 1926. The 1928 Greek census recorded 125 village inhabitants. In 1928, the refugee families numbered 29 (106 people).

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Populated places in Grevena (regional unit) Grevena Former Vallahades settlements {{WestMacedonia-geo-stub

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