Administrative Region : Central Greece
Regional unit : Fokida
Pefkaki (Πευκάκι) Fokida
Pefkaki, officially Pefkakion , is a lowland village of Dorida in the Regional Unit of Fokida, at an altitude of 100 meters[2].
Geographical - historical information
Pefkaki is located in the southwest of the prefecture, north of the Mantilo stream that ends in the Mornos River. The village is built next to the Terpsitheas - Spartias provincial road, immediately after Eufalio and south of Drosato, from which its first inhabitants started. It is 12 km. E.-NE. from Nafpaktos and 94 km. W.-SW. from Amfissa[3].
Pefkaki has a population of 150 residents, according to the 2011 census, together with the settlement of Drosato (49 residents), they constitute the Local Community of Drosato with a total population of 199 residents and belong to the Municipal Unit of Efpalio of the Municipality of Dorida[4]. It began to be built in 1910 with the original name Paliochano (Palaiochanon) and in 1956 it was renamed Pefkaki with the Government Gazette: 5/1959[5]. It took its name from a pine tree that existed in the center of the settlement.
Population censuses
Census 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011
Population 84[6] 80[7] 98[8] 151[9] 169[10] 170[11] 150
Sights
Near the center of the village is the church of the patron saint Agios Konstantinos and in its courtyard there is the statue of the benefactor of Drosato and Efpalios Nikolaos Kouvelis[12][13]. Between Pefkaki and Drosato, at the location "Karabasi", there are ruins of houses and a tower from an old Turkish settlement. At the site of "Barkorema" stone-built wells, a fountain and the remains of a temple dedicated to the Prophet Elias[14] are preserved.
References
(Greek) Database of the Hellenic Statistical Authority.
Encyclopedia Nea Domi. Athens: Tegopoulos - Maniateas. 1996. p. 260, vol. 10.
"Driving distances between cities, villages - apostaseis.gr". www.apostaseis.gr. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
"Official Gazette of the results of the PERMANENT population", p. 10669 (p. 195 of the pdf)
"Pandektis: Palaiochanon -- Pefkakion". pandektis.ekt.gr. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
Population of Greece at the census of 7 March 1951, p. 180 of pdf. Archived from the original on 2013-05-14.
Population of Greece at the census of 19 March 1961, p. 172 of pdf.
Population of Greece at the census of 14 March 1971, p. 169 of pdf.
Actual population of Greece at the census of 5 April 1981, p. 180 of pdf.
Actual population of Greece at the census of 17 March 1991, p. 226 of pdf.
Actual population of Greece - Census 2001, p. 225 of pdf.
"Drosato | Municipality of Dorida". www.dorida.gr. Archived from the original on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
"PEFKAKI-DROSATO". EFPALIO en route. 2009-09-04. Retrieved 2017-08-27.
"Drosato - Fokida | Terrabook". Fokida | Terrabook. Retrieved 2017-08-27.
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