Pistiana, Arta

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Pistiana is a small settlement in the Municipality of Arta with 41 permanent residents (2011 census), in the mountains of Arta, at an altitude of 595 meters and is approximately 22 kilometers from the city.[1][2]

According to the Kapodistrias Plan, Pistiana was until the end of 2010, a settlement of the Municipality of Xirovouni with its headquarters in Ammotopos. Based on the new administrative division provided for by the Kallikratis Plan, the settlement was incorporated into the Municipality of Arta.[3] Pistiana together with Kallithea and Platania form the local community of Pistiana which belongs to the municipal community of Xirovouni with a total population of 259 residents[4].

History
Archives of Venice

The first source that informs us of the existence of the village is the archives of Venice,[5] which state that in the year 1697, Pistiana, along with many other villages of Arta, paid a tax to the Venetian administration in exchange for protection from pirate raids.

19th century

Panagiotis Aravantinos in his work "Chronography of Epirus" informs that, based on the list of the 1845 census, Pistiana, in terms of property, belonged to the category "private property" and was inhabited by 29 Christian families.[6]

Ifikratis Kokkidis also makes reference to the village in his work "Travelogues of Epirus and Thessaly" published by the Greek Ministry of Military Affairs (Athens 1880) and gives the information that the village was inhabited by approximately 450 people. I. Kokkidis states that the province of Arta was divided into 2 regions: the Arta region and the Preveza region. The Arta region was in turn divided into 7 sections: Potamia section, Vryseos section, Radovizi section, Tzoumerka section, Kampos section, Karvasara section and Lakka section. Pistiana was part of the Tzoumerka section.[7]

Pistiana and the neighboring villages on a map of 1878.

In the "History Essay on Arti & Preveza" (ed.1884) by Seraphim Xenopoulos, Metropolitan of Arta, Pistiana is mentioned. According to this source, the residents attended church in the church of the Holy Trinity, where two priests officiated. Near the village were the chapels of St. Nicholas, the Annunciation, the Taxiarches and St. George. The Metropolitan of Arta also mentions that there was a school in the village where a teacher taught and 60 students attended, who studied geography, history, arithmetic and religion.[8] An equally important source is the Ottoman census of 1895 (Salnames of Ioannina for the fiscal year 1311[1895], seventh edition).[9] According to the relevant Ottoman law, which had been in force since 1864, the primary division of the empire was the vilayet ("prefecture" or "general administration"). Each vilayet was divided into sanjaks and these into kazas. According to this census, the village belonged to the Kaza Lourou, who was in the sanjak of Preveza, which in turn belonged to the vilayet of Ioannina. Based on this census, 38 families (khanedes) lived in Pistiana with a total population of 106 people (38 men, 68 women).

In 1910, the Metropolis of Nikopolis and Preveza published the census data that it carried out that same year throughout the ecclesiastical region and informed us that Pistiana was part of the Louros district and that 138 people lived in the village.[10] The liberation of Pistiana took place in 1912.

World War II

During World War II, thousands of Greek soldiers lost their lives. Among them were three residents of Pistiana. Volvas Anastasios, son of Konstantinos, who was born in 1911, was a corporal and died in Pistiana on 27 January 1941, Krapsis Konstantinos, son of Georgios, who was born in 1918, was a soldier in the 40th Evzone Regiment and was killed in Kastaniani, Pogoni, on 22 November 1940, and Sfikas Elias, son of Photios, who was born in 1917, was a soldier in the 8th Artillery Regiment and was killed in the Pogoni area on 19 December 1940.[11]
Administrative changes

The settlement was recognized in 1919 as Pistiana of New Greece and in 1928 it was detached from the Sub-Administration Department of Philippiada and incorporated into the province of Arta and Tzoumerka of the prefecture of Arta. In 1962 the settlement was renamed Pistiana. In 1997 Pistiana was incorporated into the municipality of Xirovouni and in 2010 into the Municipality of Arta. [12]

Location and Access

Pistiana is adjacent to the settlements of the local community of Pistiana and Rodavgi.[13]

Community structures, education and culture

The parish church of Pistiana is dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin Mary and is celebrated on September 8. It is a large basilica, a building of the late 19th century. In 1997, by ministerial decision, the church was classified as a monument requiring special state protection.[14]

Notable people

Nikolaos Priovolos (Pistiana 1780 - Trieste 1848), Epirus benefactor.[15]

References

Altitude search by address on the map.
Greek census 2011.[1] Archived 2015-10-16 at the Wayback Machine.
"Administrative division of the Municipality of Arta according to the Kallikrates Plan". Archived from the original on 22 September 2020. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
"Population-Housing Census 2011" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 May 2017. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
Arta in the archives of Venice, "Skoufas" magazine of Arta, issues of 1955-56.
Chronology of Epirus: of the neighboring Greek and Illyrian countries, running through the events in them in order from the year of salvation until 1854. / Compiled by Panagiotou Aravantinou, p.320, published 1856.
Travelogues of Epirus and Thessaly / by the Ministry of Military Staff Office, I. Kokidis, Athens 1880.
A Historical Essay on Arti and Preveza (ed. 1884).
The Turkish statistics of Epirus in the 1895 Salname, M. Kokolakis
The late Giannitiko Pasaliki: area, administration and population in Turkish-occupied Epirus (1820-1913), Michalis Kokolakis, p. 492 [2]
Battles and dead 1940-1945, Directorate of Army History.
Administrative changes, Pistiana, Arta.[3][dead link]
Driving distances in kilometers between cities, villages, countries
"Characterization of I. "Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Pistiana as a monument of special state protection". Archived from the original on 18 May 2022. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
«The son of a carpenter, Nikolaos Priovolos, who died in Trieste in 1848, a native of Arta from Tsoumerkoi, who came from the commune of Pistiana, and who left by will to the community of Arta in 1847, 100,000 drachmas, ordered to remain in the Hellenic Bank indefinitely, the interest on which is spent half on payments to Greek teachers, contributions and salaries of poor students, and other related expenses.», Historical Essay on Arta and Preveza (ed. 1884), S. Xenopoulos, p.191.

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