Administrative Region : Central Greece
Regional unit : Voiotia
Thourio (Θούρι) Voiotia
Thourio or Thurio is a village in the Municipality of Levadeia, Boeotia.[1]
General information
Thurio is located between Chaeronea and Livadia. It has a population according to the 2011 census of 127 residents. The village was called Bramaga until 1927, when it was renamed Thurio.[2] Thurio belonged administratively to the community of Romaikos between 1912 and 1919. Between 1919 and 1998 it was the seat of a separate community.[3] It was then incorporated into the Municipality of Chaeronea and from 2011 into the Municipality of Levadeia.
Sights
The Macedonian mound, which is 70 meters in diameter and 7 meters high in the Magoula area between Thurio and Chaeronea. Cenotaph next to Kifissus where Philip buried his dead at the Battle of Chaeronea and the dead were covered with a circular mound.[4]
Keratovouni or Kouroupi. At Keratovouni, which is one of the two peaks of Mount Thurio, traces of an ancient cobblestone road and many fossils ("horns" from which Keratovouni) belonging to the Mesozoic period are preserved. They are fossilized shells of hippocrates, marine animals that lived in the Upper Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic era and then became extinct. They belonged to the family of rudist heterodont homomyaris laminatobranchiata molluscs and were anisoconchs, thick-fleshed with the shape of an inverted cone or cylindrical or strobomorphic like a top or horns of an ox or sheep and with a length that reached one meter. The hippuritis was supported on its wide base and had two holes for mouths. Traces of a Venetian castle and turret are also preserved.
The Church of Agios Prokopios in the cemetery dating from the year 1754 and bears remarkable hagiography.
History of administrative changes in Thurio
Thourio, like many other regions of Greece, had significant administrative changes during the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, which in general and concise terms are as follows:
Official Gazette 18A - 18/10/1835 [5]
The settlement of Bramaga is annexed to the municipality of Chaeroneia
Official Gazette 22A - 18/12/1840 [6]
The settlement of Bramaga is detached from the municipality of Chaeroneia and annexed to the municipality of Levadeion, Prefecture of Attica and Boeotia
Official Gazette 262A - 31/08/1912 [7]
The settlement of Bramaga is detached from the municipality of Levadeion and annexed to the community of Romaikos, Prefecture of Attica and Boeotia
K. Bramaga Prefecture of Attica and Boeotia
Official Gazette 61A - 15/03/1919 [8]
Establishment of the community with the separation of the settlement of Bramaga from the community of Romaikos and its designation as the seat of the community
K. Thurio Prefecture of Attica and Boeotia
Official Gazette 179A - 30/08/1927 [9]
The community of Thurio originated from the renaming of the community of Bramaga.
Official Gazette 16/05/1928 [10]
Recognition of the settlement of Skenitai and its annexation to the community of Thurio.
Official Gazette 16/10/1940 [11]
The settlement of Skenitai of the community is abolished.
K. Thurio Prefecture Boeotia
Government Gazette 223A - 26/07/1943 [12]
The community was detached to the prefecture of Boeotia from the prefecture of Attica and Boeotia.
Government Gazette 244A - 04/12/1997 [13]
The settlement of Thurion is detached from the community and annexed to the municipality of Chaeroneia. The community is abolished.
Government Gazette 87A - 07/06/2010 [14]
The settlement of Thurion is detached from the municipality and annexed to the municipality of Levadeon.
Demographics
Chronology Population of Thurio
1835 104 [15]
1861 200
1879 202
1889 234
1896 421
1907 213
1920 262
1928 226
1940 377
1951 315
1961 339
1971 276
1981 230
1991 238
2001 259 [16], (a/a 03180601)
2011 127 [17], (a/a 8298)
Bibliography
Thymiou Dalkas (Livadia Historical Walks B' to its west)
References
"Thurio" Boeotia". Administrative changes of local governments. Hellenic Society for Local Development and Self-Government. Retrieved on 6 March 2025.
Pandektis, renamings of settlements in Greece
Administrative changes of local governments, community of Thurio
CULTURE, ARCHIVE (30 November 2017). "Polyandrio of the Macedonians, the tumulus 70 m in diameter and 7 m high in Chaeronea! It had 254 skeletons of Macedonian soldiers! - Archive of Culture". Retrieved 6 March 2025.
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"Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
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