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Pisoderi

Pisoderi ( ; ) is a village 17 km west of Florina, Greece. Nearby, 5 km away, is the ski resort Vigla. The ski center is located on 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 North Macedonia. First mentioned in an Ottoman defter of 1481, the village, then known as Ipsoder, had only twelve households. During Ottoman times, the village was purely Aromanian. Pisoderi had 30 inhabitants in 1981. In fieldwork done by anthropologists in the 1990s, Pisoderi was populated by Aromanians. The Aromanian language was used by people of all ages, both in public and private settings, and as the main language for interpersonal relationships. Some elderly villagers had little knowledge of Greek.

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Pisoderi ( ; ) is a village 17 km west of Florina, Greece. Nearby, 5 km away, is the ski resort Vigla. The ski center is located on 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 North Macedonia. First mentioned in an Ottoman defter of 1481, the village, then known as Ipsoder, had only twelve households. During Ottoman times, the village was purely Aromanian. Pisoderi had 30 inhabitants in 1981. In fieldwork done by anthropologists in the 1990s, Pisoderi was populated by Aromanians. The Aromanian language was used by people of all ages, both in public and private settings, and as the main language for interpersonal relationships. Some elderly villagers had little knowledge of Greek.

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  1. population: 30 inhabitants — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the population is "30 inhabitants". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

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  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375871507

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