Editing Thessaly (section)

== Demographics ==
The population of the region of Thessaly was 687,527 in 2021 census. The region has shrunk by 45,235 people between 2011 and 2021, experiencing a population loss of 6.2%.<ref name="2021census"/>

In 2011, the population of the region of Thessaly was 732,762 and represented 6.8% of the total population of Greece. A 2.8% decrease in the population since 2001 was noted, but Thessaly remains Greece's third most populous region.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=[[Hellenic Statistical Authority]] |title=Demographic and social characteristics of the Resident Population of Greece according to the 2011 Population |work=Housing Census |access-date=March 20, 2014 |date=September 12, 2014 |url=http://www.statistics.gr/portal/page/portal/ESYE/BUCKET/A1602/PressReleases/A1602_SAM01_DT_DC_00_2011_03_F_EN.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908142240/http://www.statistics.gr/portal/page/portal/ESYE/BUCKET/A1602/PressReleases/A1602_SAM01_DT_DC_00_2011_03_F_EN.pdf |archive-date=September 8, 2015 }}</ref>

The population break-down is 44% urban, 40% agrarian, and 16% semi-urban. A decrease in the agrarian population has been accompanied by an increase in the semi-urban population.

The metropolitan area of Larissa, the capital of Thessaly, is home to more than 230,000 people, making it the biggest city of the region.

An Aromanian minority resides in Thessaly. This region, along with [[Epirus]] and [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]], are the regions with the biggest concentrations of [[Aromanians in Greece|Greek Aromanians]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://dinitrandu.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Aromanians-in-Greece-Thede-Kahl.pdf|title=Aromanians in Greece: Minority or Vlach-speaking Greeks?|first=Thede|last=Kahl|journal=Jahrbücher für Geschichte und Kultur Südosteuropas|volume=5|pages=205–219|year=2003}}</ref> Another notable population group of Thessaly are the [[Karagounides]], an ethnic Greek subgroup.

===Language===
The [[Aeolic Greek|Aeolic]] dialect of Greek was spoken in Thessaly. This included several local varieties, in particular the variants of [[Pelasgians#Language|Pelasgiotis]] and Thessaliotis. The language was not written.<ref>Frits Waanders, “Thessalian”, in: Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics, Managing Editors Online Edition: First Last. Consulted online on 31 August 2020 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2214-448X_eagll_COM_00000349></ref>

Apart from Greek, Aromanian is also spoken in Thessaly. Some [[Aromanian dialects]] from the region have some unique peculiarities of their own, such as that of [[Krania, Elassona|Krania]], which is one of the few with [[differential object marking]] (DOM) along with those dialects spoken at the west of [[Ohrid]] in [[North Macedonia]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://brill.com/view/journals/jlc/13/1/article-p57_57.xml|title=The contact hypothesis revised: DOM in the South Slavic periphery|first=Eleni|last=Bužarovska|journal=[[Journal of Language Contact]]|volume=13|issue=1|pages=57–95|year=2020|doi=10.1163/19552629-bja10003|s2cid=225734803}}</ref>