Kipoureio or Kipourio () is a village and a community of the Grevena municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was a part of the municipality of Gorgiani, of which it was a municipal district and the seat. The 2021 census recorded 125 residents in the village. The community of Kipoureio covers an area of 40.285 km². In the early nineteenth century, traveller

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wrote Kipoureio was a

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village. According to the statistics of

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("Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics"), 600 Greek Christians lived in the village in 1900. Kanchov, Vasil, ,

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, 1900, book 2, p. 46. Written as "Кипурио". (in Bulgarian) Historian

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described Kipoureio as a Vlach village during his travels in the area during the interwar period. Historian Asterios Koukoudis states Kipoureio possibly experienced a process of assimilation, similar to the village of Mikrolivado.

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Populated places in Grevena (regional unit) Grevena Aromanian settlements in Greece {{WestMacedonia-geo-stub

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