Kokkinochori, Aitoloakarnania

Kokkinochori is a small semi-mountainous settlement in the mountainous Nafpaktia in Aitoloakarnania, which is built at an altitude of 750 meters. In the period 1999 - 2010, according to the Kapodistrias program, it belonged to the Municipality of Apodotia. With the implementation of the Kallikratis program, together with Chrysovo and Sotiro, they constitute the Local Community of Kokkinohori, which belongs to the Municipal Unit of Efficiency of the Municipality of Nafpaktia and according to the 2011 census has a population of 24 inhabitants [2].


Geography - Sights

Kokkinochori is built on the southern slopes of Mount Makria Rachi. It is 38 km from Nafpaktos and is located on the provincial road that connects the villages of Limnitsa, Chrysovo, Aspria [4]. Notable in the area is the parish church of Agios Georgios in the location "Balkoni", which existed since 1829 and was rebuilt in 1876 and 1950 and the old monastery of Theotokoupou in the location "Paliokklisia" (altitude 1,029 m) of the Makrya ridge which flourished in 1698 [3].

History - Name

Kokkinochori along with Chrysovo and Limnista are known in the municipal tradition as "Leventochoria". The old names of the village are the names Nisvari or Nisvaris or Nisvaris [3] but also Nizvari (Nizvari) [5]. With its old name it appears in Ottoman settlements of the Ottoman Empire. The traveler François Pouqueville mentions this, as Nisvari, in the list of villages in the Kravaron area with a population of 5 families [6]. Until 1912 it belonged to the then Municipality of Apodotia, when it was designated as the seat of the Nisvaris community. In 1927, with the Government Gazette: 206/1927, it was renamed Kokkinochori [8].

See also

Archival and audio-visual research material for Kokkinochori from http://repository.academyofathens.gr

References

Encyclopedia New Structure. Athens: Tegopoulos - Maniateas. 1996. p. 305, vol. 17.
"2011 Population and Housing Census" (PDF). It was archived (PDF) from the original on May 17, 2017. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
"Kokkinochori | Municipality of Nafpaktia". www.nafpaktos.gr. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
"Prefecture of Etoloakarnania". www.pde.org.gr. Retrieved September 5, 2017. [dead link]
"History of the Crops". odamianos.blogspot.gr. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
V. Stavrogiannopoulos, Kravara the Proud, Athens 1982, p.32
"Hellenic Society for Local Development and Local Government".
"Pandektis: Nisvari - Kokkinochori". pandektis.ekt.gr. Retrieved September 8, 2017.

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