Administrative Region : Epirus
Regional unit : Arta
Psathotopi (Ψαθοτόπιον) Arta
Psathotopi is a village in the Municipality of Arta with 183 permanent residents, a few kilometers from the Amvrakikos Gulf and approximately 11 kilometers from the city of Arta.[1]
According to the Kapodistrias Plan, Psathotopi was until the end of 2010, a municipal district of the newly established Municipality of Amvrakikos with headquarters in Aneza. Based on the new administrative division provided for by the Kallikratis Plan, Psathotopi was incorporated into the Municipality of Arta.[2]
History
The old name of the village was Ali Bey or Alimpi. The first source that informs us of the existence of the village is the archives of Venice,[3] which inform us that in the year 1697, Psathotopi, along with many other villages of Arta, paid a tax to the Venetians in exchange for protection from pirate raids. Based on the work of K. Diamantis entitled "Arta and its environs during the times of the revolution", Psathotopi was a small settlement of 25 families at the time of the outbreak of the Greek Revolution of 1821.[4]
Part of Aaron Arrowsmith's map of 1819 depicting Psathotopi.
Panagiotis Aravantinos in his work "Chronographia tis Epirou" of 1856 makes reference to the village and informs us that 14 families lived in Psathotopi.[5] According to the report of the Russian vice-consulate of Arta compiled in 1877, 16 families lived in the village.[6]
Ifikratis Kokkidis also makes reference to the village in his work "Odoiporika Epirou kai Thessalias" published by the Greek Ministry of Military Affairs (Athens 1880) and gives us the information that approximately 125 people lived in the village. I. Kokkidis informs us that the province of Arta was divided into 2 regions: the region of Arta and the region of Preveza. The region of Arta was divided into 7 sections: Potamia section, Vryseos section, Radovizi section, Tzoumerka section, Kampos section, Karvasaras section and Lakka section. Psathotopi was part of the Kampos section.[7]
Another notable source is the "Historical Essay on Arti & Preveza" (published 1884) by Seraphim Xenopoulos, Metropolitan of Arta. According to this source, at that time 20 families lived in the village and the villagers attended church in the church of Agios Vlasios, which was built in 1853 thanks to the contribution of a villager, Christos Tsiantis.[8]
An equally important source is the Ottoman census of 1895, published under the title "Bin üc yüz on bir sene-i maliyesine mahfus Yanya salnamesi. Yedinci defa olarak" (Ioannina Salnames for the fiscal year 1311, seventh edition). Based on this census, 23 families (khanedes) lived in Psathotopi with a total population of 123 people (63 men, 60 women). The engineer lieutenant colonel Nikolaos Schinas, in his work "Odoiporikon Epirou" published by the Greek Ministry of Military Affairs (Athens 1897), informs us that 23 families of farmers lived in Psathotopi at that time and the village was state property.[9][10]
During the unfortunate Greco-Turkish War of 1897, Psathotopi was temporarily liberated. As reported in the "History of the Greek Nation", the Greek army liberated the villages of Jenitsari (part of present-day Aneza) and Alimbei (Psathotopi) without resistance since the entire area up to the Louros River had been abandoned by the Turks. Finally, with the mediation of the European powers and Russia, on 20 September the hostilities ceased and peace was signed.[11]
In 1910, the Metropolis of Nikopol and Preveza published the data of the census it carried out that same year in the entire ecclesiastical region. According to these data, Psathotopi was part of the Louros department and its population amounted to 193 inhabitants.[12] Psathotopi was finally liberated during the Balkan Wars.
Location and Access
Psathotopi is adjacent to Gavria, Apomero, Mytikas, Aneza and Kalomodia.[13] It is connected by road to Arta via the Arta–Koronissia Provincial Road. The village is served by the Arta–Mytikas line of the Arta Urban Bus Service.[14]
Demographics
Today, the population is 229 permanent residents (2011 census),[1] showing a decrease compared to the 2001 census, where the population was 253 residents.[15] The village's population, after years of continuous maintenance above 300 residents (from 1940 to 1991), decreased in the 2001 census, where 253 residents were recorded. The first time the village exceeded 300 residents was in 1940, while the maximum number of residents was recorded in 1961 with 389 residents. With the 2011 census, the population level reached the lowest record in the last 90 years.
References
"Greek Census 2011". Archived from the original on 25 December 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
"Administrative division of the Municipality of Arta according to the Kallikrates Plan". Archived from the original on 22 September 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
Arta in the archives of Venice, "Skoufas" magazine of Arta, issues of 1955-56.
Arta and its surroundings during the times of the revolution, Skoufas Magazine/ Year 5th/ 1960 – Volume 2 p.266
Chronography 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.
Archives of the Russian Vice-Consulate of Arti - Preveza, 1858 - 1881 [dead link]
Travelogues of Epirus and Thessaly / by the Military Staff Office under the Ministry of the Interior, I. Kokidis, Athens 1880.
Historical Essay on Arti and Preveza (ed. 1884).
The Turkish statistics of Epirus in the 1895 yearbook, M. Kokolakis
Travelogue of Epirus, Nikolaos Th. Schinas, p. 198.
History of the Greco-Turkish War: from the beginning of the last Cretan revolt to the end of the war, written on the basis of official documents and the most reliable information with many images and topographic maps / Elias I. Oikonomopoulou, 1897, p.462.
The late Giannio Pasaliki: space, administration and population in Turkish-occupied Epirus (1820-1913), Michalis Kokolakis, p.491 [1]
Driving distances in kilometers between cities, villages, countries
Urban KTEL routes
Population census of 18 March 2001, Hellenic Statistical Authority (EL.STAT.).[2] Archived 2015-06-28 at the Wayback Machine.
"National Statistical Service of Greece Archives - N.S.Y.E". Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
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