Pyli, Florina

Pyli (Greek: Πύλη, before 1926: Βίνενι – Vineni)[2] is a village in the Florina Regional Unit in West Macedonia, Greece.

The toponym Винени, Vineni is composed of the suffix –eni and the Slavic word for wine, vino.

[5] The village became inhabited by Muslim Albanians, numbering some 155 in 1900 and the expelled Slavonic population went to live in Medovo[5] (modern Mileonas).

[5] By the 1950s, the Greek government assisted a group of nomadic transhumant Aromanians (known as the Arvanitovlachs) originating from Thessaly, to settle in depopulated villages of the Prespa region like Pyli.

[9] In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Pyli was populated by Aromanians.