{"id":384,"date":"2025-04-06T14:48:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T14:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondyesterday.org\/?p=384"},"modified":"2026-03-21T19:56:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:56:49","slug":"metsovo-aminciu-a-legacy-of-elegance-and-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondyesterday.org\/ka\/metsovo-aminciu-a-legacy-of-elegance-and-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Metsovo \/ Aminciu: A Legacy of Elegance and Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To identify the settlements photographed in 1900, I relied on old maps and contemporary accounts, including a book about the Vlachs published around the time Milton and Ianaki Manakia took their photographs: <em>The Nomads of the Balkans. An Account of Life and Customs among the Vlachs of Northern Pindus<\/em>, by the British scholars Alan Wace and Morice Thompson. After discovering the Vlachs by chance, Wace and Thompson abandoned their archaeological work to explore this lesser-known and historically intriguing Romance-speaking community. Some descriptions in this exhibition are drawn from their book, as it reflects the circumstances of the Manakia brothers\u2019 photographs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About Metsovo, Wace and Thomson note: &#8220;The town consists of two parts, one on either side of a deep ravine. The larger and more important portion is called Serinu, Sunny, and the smaller is known as Nkiare, Sunset. Metsovo presents the curious anomaly of a worn-out village which is still decaying, but which nevertheless possesses a group of public buildings far superior to those of any of its more prosperous neighbors. These are all due to the generosity of a number of its sons, particularly George Averoff.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ottoman garrison and a mosque, now gone, were still present in Metsovo at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The photograph was taken by the Mankia brothers from Nkiare, the place where the Manakia family apparently originated, as their paternal great-grandfather was born there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-jetpack-image-compare\"><div class=\"juxtapose\" data-mode=\"horizontal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/beyondyesterday.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/old-metsovo-copy-22.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"430\" class=\"image-compare__image-before\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/beyondyesterday.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_1263-buna.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"430\" 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