Editing Pindus (section)

== History of the name ==
Historically, the name Pindos refers to the mountainous territory that separates the greater Epirus region from the regions of Macedonia and Thessaly.{{Citation needed|date=May 2018}}

According to [[John Tzetzes]] (a 12th-century Byzantine writer), the Pindos range was then called Metzovon.

When {{Interlanguage link|Anastasios Gordios|el|3=Αναστάσιος Γόρδιος}} translated (between 1682/83 and 1689) to a more conversational (colloquial) language the initial praise to St. Vissarion, which was drafted in 1552 by {{Interlanguage link|Pahomios Rousanos|el|3=Παχώμιος Ρουσάνος}}, he wrote: “A mountain called by the Greeks Pindos is the same mountain which is called Metzovon in Barbarian” and further down the same text he adds “this mountain, Metzovon, separates the [[Ioannina]] region from the [[Thessaloniki]] region.”{{Citation needed|date=May 2018}}

By the eighteenth century, there had been identification of the name Metsovo with the Pindos mountain range (in a French encyclopedia of 1756).<ref>{{cite book |last=Moreri |first=Louis |author-link=Louis Moreri |title=Le grand dictionnaire historique, ou Le mélange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane |editor=Pierre-Augustin Le Mercier  |volume=4 |page=1060 |year=1732 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z3cnrqTjdcIC&pg=PA1060}}</ref> BY 1825, the traveller [[John Cam Hobhouse]] was writing that "…the latter mountains, now known by the name of Metzovo, can be no other than Pindus itself…"<ref>{{cite book |last=Hobhouse| first=John Cam |title=A journey through Albania and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia to Constantinople during the years 1809 and 1810, Volume 1 |date=1825 |publisher=James Cawthorn |page=61 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FBfelxz-BpcC&pg=PA61}}</ref> while a patriarchal document of 1818 states: "Because the high mountain of Pindos in Epirus, that is commonly called Messovon...".{{Citation needed|date=April 2018}} The word Pindos was used more in literary sources, while the folk name for the mountain range from the Middle Ages up to the 19th century was either "Metsovo" or "the mountains of Metsovo". Most probably this name was not meant to indicate the whole range as it is meant today, but only its central part between the area of [[Aspropotamos, Trikala|Aspropotamos]] and the springs of the [[Aoös]] River.{{Citation needed|date=May 2018}}  This part coincides with the mountainous region which the ancient Greeks used to call Pindos.{{Citation needed|date=May 2018}}