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Gaitanaki

Gaitanaki (Greek: γαϊτανάκι) is a form of a Greek folk dance from Thessaly, Greece. It is a circle dance. It is also very widespread in Epirus.

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Gaitanaki (Greek: γαϊτανάκι) is a form of a Greek folk dance from Thessaly, Greece. It is a circle dance. It is also very widespread in Epirus. 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Gaitanaki”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

Gaitanaki is type of dance, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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