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{{Infobox Greek Dimos
|name = Pontini
|name_local = Ποντινή
|type = community
|image_map =
|periph = [[Western Macedonia]]
|periphunit         = [[Grevena (regional unit)|Grevena]]
|municipality = [[Grevena]]
|municunit = [[Ventzio]]
|population = 166
|population_as_of = 2021
|area = 33.573
|coordinates = {{coord|40|4.3|N|21|40.7|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|postal_code = 511 00
|area_code = +30-2462
|licence = PN
|image_skyline =
|caption_skyline    =
|elevation = 830
}}
'''Pontini''' ({{Langx|el|Ποντινή}}, before 1927: Τόριστα – ''Torista'')<ref name="pandektisToPo">{{Cite web|author=Institute for Neohellenic Research|title=Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Torista – Pontini|url=http://pandektis.ekt.gr/pandektis/handle/10442/170373|website=Pandektis|access-date=23 August 2024}}</ref> is a village and a community of the [[Grevena|Grevena municipality]]. Before the 2011 local government reform it was a part of the municipality of [[Ventzio]], of which it was a municipal district.<ref name=Kallikratis>{{Cite web|url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL81-32jgAMSfbnMRVjyfnPUeJInJ48_97uHrMts-zFzeyCiBSQOpYnT00MHhcXFRTsb2fGphpq4MKX2ZkaHobySNnvZCNHXvYVvlf80XevW0Q.|title=ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities|language=el|publisher=[[Government Gazette (Greece)|Government Gazette]]}}</ref> The 2021 census recorded 166 residents in the village.<ref name="census21" /> The community of Pontini covers an area of 33.573&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>.<ref name=stat01>{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf|publisher=National Statistical Service of Greece|title=Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)|language=el}}</ref>
Torista was populated by [[Greek Muslims|Greek speaking Muslim]] [[Vallahades]].<ref name="Vakalopoulos348">{{cite book|last=Vakalopoulos|first=Apostolos E.|title=History of Macedonia, 1354–1833|year=1973|publisher=Institute for Balkan Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yOcJAQAAIAAJ&q=T%C3%B3rista|isbn=9780900834899|page=348}}</ref><ref name="Metoki315">{{cite thesis|last=Metoki|first=Athanasia|date=2016|title=Οι ελληνόφωνοι μουσουλμάνοι της Δυτικής Μακεδονίας: η περίπτωση των Βαλαάδων της Κοζάνης και των Γρεβενών|trans-title=The Greek-speaking Muslims of Western Macedonia: The case of the Vallahades of Kozani and Grevena|type=Masters|language=el|publisher=University of Macedonia|url=https://dspace.lib.uom.gr/handle/2159/19457|access-date=1 September 2024|pages=3, 15}}</ref> The 1920 Greek census recorded 504 people in the village, and 500 inhabitants (85 families) were Muslim in 1923.<ref name="Pelagidis84"/> Following the [[Population exchange between Greece and Turkey|Greek–Turkish population exchange]], [[Greek refugee]] families in Torista were from [[Pontus (region)|Pontus]] (73) in 1926.<ref name="Pelagidis84"/> The 1928 Greek census recorded 285 village inhabitants.<ref name="Pelagidis84"/> In 1928, the refugee families numbered 75 (280 people).<ref name="Pelagidis84">{{cite thesis|last=Pelagidis|first=Efstathios|date=1992|title=Η αποκατάσταση των προσφύγων στη Δυτική Μακεδονία (1923–1930)|trans-title=The rehabilitation of refugees in Western Macedonia: 1923–1930|type=Ph.D.|language=el|publisher=Aristotle University of Thessaloniki|url=https://www.didaktorika.gr/eadd/handle/10442/2403|access-date=26 August 2024|page=84}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[List of settlements in the Grevena regional unit]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
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[[Category:Populated places in Grevena (regional unit)]]
[[Category:Grevena]]
[[Category:Former Vallahades settlements]]
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