Administrative Region : Thessaly
Regional unit : Trikala
Pyrra (Πύρρα) Trikala
Pyrra is a mountainous village in the prefecture of Trikala. It is built at an altitude of 1,000 meters on the slopes of southern Pindos and is one of the most mountainous settlements in the prefecture of Trikala. It falls administratively under the Municipality of Pyli and its population according to the 2011 census is 19 inhabitants.[1]
General and historical information
Pyrra is one of the Vlach villages in the Aspropotamos region.[2] Historically, it is first recorded in the Ottoman census of 1454/1455 as the property of the spahis from Trikala[3], while its name is of Greek origin[4].
During the late 18th century and early 19th century, the settlement was effectively controlled by the powerful Pyrgiota family, while many of Pyrra's residents worked as itinerant craftsmen.[5] Shortly afterwards, Pyrra (like several of the villages in the wider area) became a tsifliki (estate) of Ali Pasha.[6]
In 1806, the French traveler F. Poukeville reported that 200 families lived in the settlement. However, in 1820, the Code of Trikki, compiled by order of Ali Pasha for tax purposes, recorded only 75 families.[7] During the Greek Revolution, Pyrra was destroyed in 1823 by the troops of the Albanian chieftain Silichtar Bonda who had invaded Aspropotamos. The devastation of the period led some of the inhabitants of Pyrra to decide to flee to the newly established Greek state, where they settled mainly in the area of Thebes.[8] In 1881, Pyrra was annexed, along with most of Thessaly, to Greece.
Sights of the village are the remains of the monastery of Prophet Elias or Agios Modestos (1859), the church of Agios Nikolaos dating from the 17th and 18th centuries[9] and the church of Agia Paraskevi (1892).[10] Furthermore, near Pyrra is the Sarmanitsa cave.[10]
Population evolution
Year 1883 1889 1896 1907 1920 1928 1940 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011
Population 137 74 468 147 125 114 208 134 170 131 112 150 17 19
Sources [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [1]
Administrative changes
In 1883, the settlement of Pyrra with a population of 137 residents was annexed to the municipality of Ethika, with the seat being the settlement of Tyrna, today's Elati.[11]
In 1912, the settlement of Pyrra, due to having its own communal property and an annual income of over 2,000 drachmas, was detached from the municipality of Ethika and designated as the seat of the newly established homonymous community.[24]
In 1997, with the implementation of the Kapodistrias program (law 2539/97), the settlement was annexed to the municipality of Ethika.[25]
In 2010, with the implementation of the Kallikrates program (law 3852/2010), the settlement was detached from the abolished municipality of Aithika and annexed to the municipality of Pyli.[26]
Today, after the last change in 2010 (Kalikrates program), it falls under the municipal unit of Aithika of the municipality of Pyli of the regional unit of Trikala.
References
"Official Gazette of results of PERMANENT population", p. 10627 (p. 153 of the pdf), and in Excel format "Table of results of PERMANENT Population-Census 2011" on the ELSTAT website. Archived 24/11/2017. Retrieved 09/01/2018.
Asterios I. Koukoudis, Studies on the Vlachs, volume B. The Metropolises and the Diaspora of the Vlachs, Zitros Publications, Thessaloniki 2000, pp. 77-78.
Vasileios K. Spanos, The Settlements of Northwestern Thessaly during the Ottoman Rule (from the 14th to the 19th century). Introduction to the History of Thessaly from the Late Byzantine Era to the End of the 19th Century, Ant. Stamoulis Publishing House, Athens 2004, pp. 125, 482.
Spanos, 2004, pp. 132-133.
Koukoudis, 2000, pp. 119-120.
Koukoudis, 2000, pp. 130.
Koukoudis, 2000, pp. 131-132.
Koukoudis, 2000, pp. 135-136.
“Pyrrha”. pirra-trikalon.gr. Cultural Association of Pyrra. Retrieved July 27, 2019.
“Sights”. pirra-trikalon.gr. Cultural Association of Pyrra. Retrieved July 27, 2019.
“Government Gazette 126A - 02/04/1883” p. 660 (p. 18 of pdf), from EETAA. Archived 15/10/2018. Retrieved 15/10/2018.
37 males and 37 females are mentioned. “Population: census of 15-16 April 1889”, p. 151 (p. 174 of pdf), from ELSTAT. Archived 07/11/2017. Retrieved 08/01/2018.
262 males and 206 females are reported. "Statistical results of the population census on 5-6 October 1896", p. 161 (p. 300 of pdf), from ELSTAT. Archived 07/11/2017. Retrieved 08/01/2018.
77 males and 70 females are reported. "Statistical results of the general population census on 27 October 1907", p. 423 (p. 426 of pdf), from ELSTAT. Archived 07/11/2017. Retrieved 08/01/2018.
57 males and 68 females are reported. "Population of the Kingdom of Greece according to the census of 19 December 1920", p. 295 (p. 316 of the pdf), by ELSTAT. Archived 07/06/2015. Retrieved 08/01/2018.
60 males and 54 females are reported. "Population of Greece according to the census of 15-16 May 1928", p. 339 (p. 359 of the pdf), by ELSTAT. Archived 4/3/2016. Retrieved 8/1/2018.
106 males and 102 females are reported. "Population of Greece at the census of 16 October 1940", p. 372 (p. 396 of pdf), by ELSTAT. Archived 25/4/2017. Retrieved 8/1/2018.
"Population of Greece at the census of 7 April 1951", p. 173 (p. 173 of pdf), by ELSTAT. Archived 4/3/2017. Retrieved 8/1/2018.
"Results of the population - housing census of 19 March 1961", Table 1, p. 196 (p. 266 of pdf), by ELSTAT. Archived 6/3/2017. Retrieved 8/1/2018.
"Population of Greece according to the census of March 14, 1971", p. 163 (p. 163 of pdf), by ELSTAT. Archived 24/10/2014. Retrieved 8/1/2018.
"Results of the population - housing census of April 5, 1981", p. 353 (p. 353 of pdf), by ELSTAT. Archived 8/1/2018. Retrieved 8/1/2018.
"Actual population of Greece according to the census of March 17, 1991 by prefectures, provinces, municipalities, communities and settlements", p. 214 (p. 216 of pdf), by ELSTAT. Archived 20/08/2017. Retrieved 08/01/2018.
"Population - Housing Census of March 18, 2001", p. 202 (p. 204 of pdf), by ELSTAT. Archived 29/07/2017. Retrieved 08/01/2018.
"Government Gazette 261A 31/8/1912" p. 1519 (p. 7 of pdf), by EETAA. Archived 16/06/2012. Retrieved 27/02/2018.
"Government Gazette 244A - 04/12/1997" p. 8828, line 45.1 (p. 40 of pdf), by EETAA. Archived 30/03/2017. Retrieved 27/02/2018.
«Government Gazette 87A - 07/06/2010» p. 1793, line 45.1 (p. 9 of pdf ), from EETAA. Archived 27/02/2018. Retrieved 27/02/2018.
| Municipal unit Aithikes |
|---|
| Community Agios Nikolaos |
| Agios Nikolaos (Άγιος Νικόλαος, ο) |
| Community Athamania |
| Athamania (Αθαμανία, η) |
| Community Vrontero |
| Vrontero (Βροντερόν, το) |
| Community Gardiki |
| Gardiki (Γαρδίκιον, το) |
| Palaiochori (Παλαιοχώριο, το) |
| Community Desi |
| Vakari (Βακάριον, το) |
| Desi (Δέση, η) |
| Fortosi (Φορτώσι, το) |
| Community Drosochori |
| Drosochori (Δροσοχώριον, το) |
| Community Elati |
| Agios Georgios (Άγιος Γεώργιος, ο) |
| Vlataneoi (Βλατανέοι, οι) |
| Vlacha (Βλάχα, η) |
| Elati (Ελάτη, η) |
| Lipiota (Λιπιότα, η) |
| Xylochori (Ξυλοχώριον, το) |
| Community Kalogiroi |
| Kalogiroi (Καλόγηροι, οι) |
| Community Neraidochori |
| Neraidochori (Νεραϊδοχώρι, το) |
| Community Pertouli |
| Pertouli (Περτούλιον, το) |
| Community Pyrra |
| Pyrra (Πύρρα, η) |
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