Administrative Region : West Greece
Regional unit : Achaia
Gomosto (Γομοστό) Achaia
Gomosto is a village in the former province of Patras, Achaia prefecture, with 249 residents according to the 2011 census. It is approximately 27 kilometers from Patras. It had a primary school since 1943, which ceased to operate in 2009[1].
Historical information
Gomosto is first mentioned in an Ottoman tax document in 1461 and was inhabited by 17 Arvanite families at the time[2]. The name of the village is anthroponymic and comes from its first settlers. The same 1461 census also mentions the names of the residents, the majority of whom were called Gomosto[2]. Oral tradition mentions a settler named Gomostiotis who came from the village of Platano in Nezeros[3].
Gomosto is mentioned in all Venetian censuses, during the Second Ottoman Empire it was a manor of Hasan Tselepi[4]. In 1851 it was mentioned with 890 inhabitants[5]. A well from the Ottoman Empire has been preserved in the village, from which the entire village received water[6].
In 1831, a robbery took place on travelers passing through the village, and the General Commissioner of the Peloponnese, Th. Kolokotronis, obliged Gomosto and the neighboring village of Apostolou, in accordance with the legislation of the time, to compensate the travelers[7].
After the revolution of 1821, shepherds from the villages of Panachaikos began to come to the area in the winter. Shepherds came to Gomosto mainly from Zoumbata, where they had also built huts for their accommodation, and later settled there permanently[8]. The village was originally built in another location near the current one, where the first houses were built in 1865 when the current Patras-Pyrgos national road was built and the railway line in 1888[9]. Local tradition says that the residents abandoned the old village due to a murder and to avoid a vendetta they settled in the current location[10].
The "Nifora" family of Gomosto were settlers and namesakes of the current village of Niforaika[3].
With the BD 8/4/1835 it became a settlement of the municipality of Dymi[11]. With the FET 256A - 28/08/1912 the municipalities were abolished and Gomosto became a settlement of the community of Karaiki[12][13]. With the law 2539/1997 on "Establishment of primary local government" -known as the Kapodistrias Plan- it became a settlement of the municipal district of Karaiki of the municipality of Movris[14].
Demographic evolution
The demographic evolution of the settlement in the 21st century is as follows:
Year Population
2001 272[15]
2011 249[16]
2021 227[17]
References
OM.AR.T., p. 114.
OM.AR.T., p. 37.
OM.AR.T., p. 179.
OM.AR.T., p. 40.
OM.AR.T., p. 128.
OM.AR.T., p. 191.
OM.AR.T., pp. 43, 44, 45.
OM.AR.T., pp. 46.
OM.AR.T., pp. 47.
OM.AR.T., pp. 190.
OM.AR.T., pp. 65.
OM.AR.T., pp. 66.
E.E.T.A. - Administrative changes of the Karaikos Community of Achaia. eetaa.gr. Retrieved: 28/10/2017.
E.E.T.A. - Administrative changes of Gomosto of Achaia. eetaa.gr. Retrieved: 28/10/2017.
E.S.Y.E. - Resident Population of Greece. Census 2001
EL.STAT. - Resident population of Greece. Census 2011
"Official Gazette of the results of the PERMANENT population census 2021". p. 21829 (p. 247 of the pdf).
Sources
Results of the Population-Housing Census 2011 concerning the Resident Population of the Country, Government Gazette of the Hellenic Republic, vol. 2, p. 3465 (December 28, 2012).
N.S.Y.E. - Resident Population of Greece. Census 2001, Athens 2004. ISBN 960-86704-8-9.
Landscape Archaeology Group (OM.AR.T.), History of Western Achaia 2. The Karaikos community in time, edited by Vasilis Chronopoulos, Peri Technon Publications, Patras 2001. ISBN 960-86814-3-X.
Bibliography
Louloudis, Theodoros H. (2010). Achaia. Settlements, settlers, self-government. Patras: Prefectural Cultural Development Enterprise of South-Eastern Achaia.
| Municipal unit Movri |
|---|
| Community Karaiika |
| Gomosto (Γομοστό, το) |
| Karaiika (Καραίικα, τα) |
| Karamesinaiika (Καραμεσιναίικα, τα) |
| Rachi (Ράχη, η) |
| Community Krinos |
| Krinos (Κρίνος, ο) |
| Community Limnochori |
| Kalamaki (Καλαμάκι, το) |
| Kato Limnochori (Κάτω Λιμνοχώρι, το) |
| Limnochori (Λιμνοχώρι, το) |
| Paralia Kalamakiou (Παραλία Καλαμακίου, η) |
| Community Myrtos |
| Gioulaiika (Γιουλαίικα, τα) |
| Myrtos (Μύρτος, ο) |
| Pournari (Πουρνάρι, το) |
| Community Sagaiika |
| Apostoloi (Απόστολοι, οι) |
| Vrachnaiika (Βραχναίικα, τα) |
| Gerousaiika (Γερουσαίικα, τα) |
| Boutaiika (Μπουταίικα, τα) |
| Sagaiika (Σαγαίικα, τα) |
| Stathmos (Σταθμός, ο) |
| Community Fragka |
| Spanaiika (Σπαναίικα, τα) |
| Tsakonika (Τσακώνικα, τα) |
| Fragka (Φράγκα, η) |
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