Administrative Region : West Macedonia
Regional unit : Grevena
Aetia (Αετιά) Grevena
Aetia is one of the Koupatsiarochoria of the prefecture of Grevena and one of the most mountainous settlements in Greece.
The Koupatsiarochorians, a semi-nomadic population, constitute an anthropogeographical unit and are located west of and around the Venetikos River and east of the Vasilitsa mountain range. They have taken their name from the tree that dominates the ecological zone they occupy, the oak, and mainly its coppice shoots, which the Turks called "koupats" and themselves "smaria" or "kontokladia".
Name
The old name of the village was Tsourgiakas[1] , which was later used for the neighboring stone massif and gorge.
There are three versions of the origin of this name, with the first being the most prevalent:
Etymologically, the word Tsourgiakas or Tsiourgiaka comes from the Turkish word "tsouriouk"[2] which means rotten and decayed.
Tradition says that until 1927 the village was called Tsourgiakas because it was built on the "tsourokia", small monastic estates, owned by a small monastery, at the location "Venetades" and of which not even the ruins survive today.
The similar name Tsiourliaka comes from the Slavic etymology Ourlias (orel) which translates as eagle.
It took its current name Aetia from the multitude of eagles that live and nest on the steep rocks of the Tsourgiaka rock massif (altitude 1315 m.), east of the village. (renamed: 20-1-1927, Government Gazette 18/1927)
Geography
Aetia is built on the slopes of N.E. Pindos, at an altitude of 1,100 m. and 31 km west of the city of Grevena. It belongs to the local district of Filippei of the Municipality of Grevena and is bordered by the villages: A. Prosvoro, D. Filippei, V. Mesolouri, N. Polyneri. It has a view of the rocks of Tsourgiaka and the valley crossed by the streams Smixiotiko and Filippios, feeders of the Venetikos river.
Demography
The population according to the official census of the National Statistical Service shows the following fluctuations:
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History
Although there is no historical evidence to prove the identity of the village in time, it is certain that the village existed during the period of Turkish rule.
The hero of the 1821 revolution, Apostolos Kyrimis, was born here around 1790. He was a soldier at the side of Giannoulas Ziakas, a member of the Friendly Society and a leader of the revolution. In a memorial book of the Holy Mountain, it is mentioned that in May 1821 he took part in the revolution of Chalkidiki and killed, on the coast of Athos, the crew of a Turkish schooner that had run aground there while being pursued by Greek ships. This is also confirmed by Spyridon Trikoupis in his book History of the Greek Revolution [3]. In April 1822, he fought together with the Ziakai and defeated the army of 1,600 men of Sropoli, envoy of Hursit Pasha. He fought, on the side of the Kasomoulis, in the martyred city of Messolonghi during its siege, at the head of 250 Greveniotes from 1823 until the heroic Exodus[4].
A reference to Kyrimis, with particularly flattering words about him, is found in no. File 28732 manuscript of the National Library [5] , and in books by historical authors M. Papaioannou, A. Anestopoulos [6] , Arist. Kostopoulos and I.K. Mandravellis. In the battle of Mavronouros Grevena in 1826, where the commander Giannoulas Ziakas was killed, Kyrimis was miraculously saved and fled with Theodoros Ziakas and other comrades to Southern Greece (Lamia), where he fought until the end of the struggle in the areas of Agrafa, Phthiotis and Boeotia. His descendants live in Lamia today, one of them being Georgios Kyrimis, a major general who served as minister of Epirus and Macedonia (1936-1941).
Under the old name of Tsourgiakas, it is mapped in an 1881 edition by the geographer and historian Michael Chrysochoos and there is a reference in the "Travel Notes" of Nikolaos Th. Schinas 1886[7] (Major of the Engineer).
It refers to a folk song dedicated to the Samaritan hero Giannis Papanikolaou or Priftis who was killed fighting the Turks in 1867.
From the sacred books of the church, which were used in the old days in education, there are several handwritten notes from the teachers, which provide valuable information. Thus we learn that a school was operating in Aetia on July 22, 1892 with a teacher, a hieromonk from Mount Athos, paid by its residents. On May 17, 1906, it was operating with the teacher Father Andreas Christou from Prosvoros with 12 students. On July 20, 1908, it had the teacher Konstantinos Anastasiou and in 1914 Georgios Anastasiou from Prosvoros who operated all year round with 1 to 7 students.
There is a church dedicated to Saint Nicholas, with a wooden carved iconostasis, from May 8, 1903 when the Samaritan Athonite iconographer Father Adam Sakomanos left his signature while passing by. Estimated year of construction 1880.
Sights
Very close to Aetia there is the chapel of Panagia, built in 1809 at the foot of the Tsourgiakas rock. The icons of the iconostasis are works by artists from Chioniadita on canvas. It is the starting point of the climbing routes "Melitsa", "AIDS" and "Megali Arktos" at a height of 150 m.
At the Kastri site, archaeological excavations discovered the ruins of an ancient acropolis from the time of Alexander the Great (4th century BC).
In the Stomio gorge, small successive waterfalls of 40 m. high are formed and a little further down, at the "Nidrouzi" site, there is the stone arched bridge of Gavos.
Aetia (Information about this image)
Tsourgiakas (Information about this image)
Waterfall of Aetia (Information about this image)
Gorge of Aetia (Information about this image)
References
National Research Foundation - Pandektis
Turkish-Greek Dictionary of P. Melitopoulos 1934
Spyridon Trikoupis. History of the Greek Revolution, volume A, p. 217
Apostolos Vakalopoulos. History of Macedonia
Manuscript of the National Library, File No. 28732
A. Anestopoulos, The Macedonian Struggle 1903-1908, volume B, Thessaloniki 1969, p. 115
Schinas, Nikolaos (1886). Travel notes. Athens: Staff Office of the Ministry of the Armed Forces. p. 205.
| Municipal unit Mesolouri |
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| Community Mesolouri |
| Mesolouri (Μεσολούρι, το) |
| Municipal unit Perivoli |
| Community Perivoli |
| Perivoli (Περιβόλι, το) |
| Municipal unit Samarina |
| Community Samarina |
| Samarina (Σαμαρίνα, η) |
| Municipal unit Smixi |
| Community Smixi |
| Smixi (Σμίξη, η) |
| Municipal unit Filippaioi |
| Community Filippaioi |
| Aetia (Αετιά, η) |
| Κουρούνα, η |
| Filippaioi (Φιλιππαίοι, οι) |
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