Administrative Region : West Greece
Regional unit : Achaia
Velimachi (Βελιμάχιο) Achaia
Velimachi is a small village in Achaia, in the Tritaia region, and is part of the newly formed Municipality of Erymanthos[1]. It is built at the foot of Mount Erymanthos at an altitude of approximately 590 meters. During the 2011 census, the village was found to have a population of 69 permanent residents.
General information
The Daska reservoir near Velimachi, Achaia.
Neighborhoods of the village are: Koryta, Leloudi, Kato Rouga, Tsinganaeika, Tsirmeika[2]. Family surnames found in the village are e.g. Anastasopoulos, Andrikopoulos, Diamantopoulos, Kakafonis, Karagiannis, Karakasis, Karnaris, Konstantinopoulos, Davlas, Papaspyropoulos, Tsaourdas, Fotopoulos etc. A well-known toponym of the village is the Daska area, where the eponymous dam-reservoir was built in 2014.
The largest areas of the village are public pastures. The permanent residents of the village are mainly engaged in agriculture, livestock farming and forestry[3].
The Monastery of All Saints also belongs to the former community. The village has five other churches[2]: the cemetery Agios Georgios[4], Agios Andreas, Agios Athanasios, Agios Nikolaos and the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (Panagitsa).
View of the Daska reservoir near Velimachi, Achaia.
Historical information
Regarding the name of the village, there is an interpretation that it may have Albanian origin and mean fertile peak[3][5].
In 1713, the village's prefect was Io. Tsalamidas[6]. The settlement was two and a quarter hours away by road in 1885 from Prostovitsa, the then seat of the Municipality of Tritaia[7]. In 1903, Christos Koryllos reports that the village was three hours away by road from Prostovitsa and that it had a school (secretariat)[8].
During its period of demographic prosperity, it is reported that residents of the village left and created the village of Velimachi in Gortynia, Arcadia[3].
Administrative development
On 20/04/1835 it was annexed to the then Municipality of Erymanthia[1]. With the Government Gazette 5A of 08/03/1841 it was detached from the Municipality of Erymanthia and annexed to the then Municipality of Tritaia[1]. With the Government Gazette 256A of 28/08/1912 it was detached from the Municipality of Tritaia and designated as the seat of the community of Velimachi[1][9]. With the Government Gazette 244A of 04/12/1997, according to the Administrative Reform "Kapodistrias", it was annexed to the Municipality of Tritaia until 2010 when it was incorporated into the Municipality of Erymanthos (Government Gazette 87A - 07/06/2010) based on the Administrative Reform "Kallikratis"[1].
Demographic evolution
In 1689, in the Venetian census Corner is called Velimislu and appears to have 49 residents[6]. It is also mentioned in 1699 in the list of villages of Patras[6]. In 1700, it is mentioned in the Venetian census Grimani as Velimagli and has a population of 17 families (68 residents)[3][6].
Overall, the demographic evolution of the settlement according to the national censuses[10][11] is as follows:
1830 1835 1844 1848-1851 1861 1879 1889 1896 1907 1920 1928 1940 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011
13 households[3][12] 23 households -
97 inhabitants[3] 126 inhabitants[3] 19 households -
90 inhabitants[3][12] 125 inhabitants[3] 133[3] 114[3] 132[3][8] 148[3] 195[3] 150[3] 201[3] 219[3] 136[3] 94[3] 104[3] 111[3] 80[3][13] 69[14]
Presidents of the Community of Velimachi
Karnaris Georgios: 1970-1978
Konstantinos Tsaourdas[15]: 1978-1986
Ioannis Giannikopoulos[15]: 1986-1990
Diamantis Diamantopoulos[15][16]: 1990-1998
See also
Agioi Pantes Tritaias
Limnodexameni Daska
References and footnotes
E.E.T.A.A. - Administrative changes of Velimachi Achaia, eetaa.gr. Retrieved: 07/11/2017.
Louloudis 2010, p. 229.
Louloudis 2010, p. 228.
Christos Koryllos mentions that it is a famous temple with an annual religious festival. Koryllou 1903, p. 85.
Thanasoulopoulos 2007, p. 38, 62.
Triantafyllou 1995, p. 305.
Nouchakis 1885, p. 62.
Koryllou 1903, p. 85.
E.E.T.A.A. - Administrative changes in the Community of Velimachi, Achaia, eetaa.gr. Retrieved: 07/11/2017.
Digital library of E.S.Y.E./EL.STAT.. dlib.statistics.gr. Retrieved: 24/10/2017.
E.S.Y.A. - Administrative changes in the Municipality - Census publications. eetaa.gr. Retrieved: 24/10/2017.
Triantafyllou 1995, p. 304.
Resident population: 78 inhabitants. See E.S.Y.E. - Resident Population of Greece. Census 2001
EL.STAT. - Resident population of Greece. Census 2011
Election results of the Community of Velimachi, Achaia. eetaa.gr. Retrieved: 15/6/2021.
Petropoulos 2017, p. 144.
Sources
Results of the Population-Housing Census 2011 concerning the Resident Population of the Country, Government Gazette of the Hellenic Republic, vol. 2, p. 3465 (December 28, 2012).
N.S.Y.E. - Resident Population of Greece. Census 2001, Athens 2004. ISBN 960-86704-8-9.
Christos P. Koryllou, Geography of Greece. A'. Prefecture of Achaia, From the Printing House of the "Anesti Konstantinidou" Stores, Athens 1903.
New geographical table. Compiled and published with the approval of the Ministry of Military Affairs by Ioannou E. Nouchakis, adjutant of the Infantry, From the Printing House of the Ministry of Military Affairs, Athens 1885.
Georgios A. Petropoulos, The Third Diachronic, Patras 2017, 2nd revised-enlarged edition.
Bibliography
Kostas Thanasoulopoulos, The toponyms of Achaia as historical memories of its medieval settlement, Peri Technon Publications, Patras 2007. ISBN 978-960-6684-27-2.
Louloudis, Theodoros H. (2010). Achaia. Settlements, settlers, self-government. Patras: Prefectural Cultural Development Enterprise of South-Eastern Achaia.
Kostas N. Triantafyllou, Historical Dictionary of Patras, Volume A, Petros Chr. Koulis Printing House, Patras 1995, Third Edition, entry Velimachi.
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