Asterios Koukoudis, The Vlachs: Metropolis and Diaspora, Thessaloniki, Zitros Publications, 2003, pp. 297-298, ISBN 978-960-7760-86-9.
«Regarding the origins of the urban Vlachs of Korçë, Liakos notes that, according to a written source dating to 1867, apart from the Moschopolitans, there were also Vlachs from the village of Shalës in Kolonjë, which he describes as a former Arvanitovlach settlement. Aravandinos reports that the people from Shalës and many from Moschopolis probably settled in Korçë in an organised way, when the area was fairly calm after 1834. These settlers established the market district in Korçë known as Varossi. If we bear in mind that the Arvanitovlachs who arrived in the Korçë area in the early nineteenth century played a considerable part in establishing the Christian urban class in Korçë, then we may, rather cautiously perhaps, suppose that one of the places from which they came was Shalës»
Proseguendo a p. 361: «Indeed, according to Psalidas's Geography, in around 1830, after the Greek War of Independence and a period of renewed insecurity, […] And in the same period, 100 Vlach families were living in the Varossi district of Korçë.».