This time he discussed a so-called "Autonomous State of the Pindus" ("Αυτόνομον Κράτος της Πίνδου") or "Autonomous Vlach State" ("Αυτόνομον Βλαχικόν Κράτος") in the territory of Epirus, Thessaly and parts of Macedonia, which was supposed to constitute a "Vlach Homeland". This planned state or canton is sometimes called "Principality of Pindus" (the name used to mainly refer to the events in Pindus in August 1917). Diamandi's deputy and right-hand was the Larissa-based lawyer Nicolaos Matussis, while the third in the hierarchy of the nascent state was Rapoutikas Vassilis.