The Principality of Pindus (also Pindo or Pindos; in Aromanian: Principatu di la Pind) and Duchy of Macedonia was an autonomous state set up under fascist Italian and Bulgarian control in northwest Greece and southern Yugoslavia during the Second World War. The Pindus region spans southern parts of present-day Albania and the Republic of Macedonia, in addition to northwestern Greece. The small state was proclaimed during the Italian occupation of northern Greece as the fatherland of ethnic Aromanians, and was called Principato del Pindo by the Italians. The capital of the statelet was Metsovo (Aminciu in Aromanian, but the national assembly sat in Trikala.
The first prince was the Aromanian head of a fascist organisation known as the Roman Legion: Alkiviadis Diamandi di Samarina, who established his court. In 1943 a faction of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (VMRO) offered the throne of Macedonia to H.H. the Prince Alchibiades, thus he held the titles: "His Highness, the Prince of Pindus" and "His Most Serene Excellence, the Duke of Macedonia". Alchibiades was a patron of the arts and an amateur sculptor himself .
He was dethroned by the Italians in 1943, and took refuge to Romania. The title "Prince of Pindus" was offered for the Csesznegi family honouring that they had supplied the Italian Army with cereals, but Prince Julius did not hold any real power, and his brother Michael never set foot on the territory of the state. Nevertheless, some Aromanian leaders governed in their names.
The state adopted certain Anti-Greek policy but never was anti-semitic. Jews from Kastoria, Veria, and Ioannina were in top positions in the hierarchy of the Principality.