Agora, Thesprotia

Administrative Region : Epirus
Regional unit : Thesprotia

Agora (Αγορά ) Thesprotia

Agora (formerly Liogati) is a village in the municipality of Souli in the regional unit Thesprotia in the region of Epirus (Kallikratis Plan). According to the 2011 census, its population amounts to 175 permanent residents [1].

General elements

Agora is built southeast of the capital of the prefecture, Igoumenitsa at an altitude of 220 meters [2] along the river Kokytos at the foot of Korylas. The population of the Agora is mainly engaged in animal husbandry and agriculture. Ecclesiastically it belongs to the metropolis of Paramythia, Filiates, Giromeri and Parga, while the central church of the village is dedicated to the Transfiguration of the Savior [3].
Historical data

During the Turkish occupation it was known as Liogati or Liogati, a name that lasted until 1928 [2]. During the last decades of Ottoman rule, it belonged to the Paramythia kaza of the santzaki of Ioannina. According to a report from 1874 prepared by the then Bishop of Paramythia Anthimos, addressed to the Continental Educational Association of Constantinople, 12 families lived in the Agora [5], while a few years later, according to the staff of the Greek Ministry of the Army, it had 60 inhabitants. [6]. In 1895 the official census conducted by the Ottoman administration mentions the Agora as a free village inhabited by 27 people (20 men and 7 women) divided into six tax charities [4]. In 1910, according to local metropolitan areas, it had a population of 60 and at the same time had a Greek school with a teacher and ten students [7] and three years later, the first Greek census in Epirus after its liberation by the Greek army against during the Balkan Wars it found 83 inhabitants in the settlement [8].

During the Occupation it is estimated that 17 houses in the village were destroyed. At the same time, three of its inhabitants were killed by the German forces and the armed groups of Tsamidos dosilogos [9].

Administratively, after the integration in the Greek state, Agora was subordinated to the community of Skandalos in the province of Souli in the prefecture of Ioannina and in 1937 it was annexed to the then newly established prefecture of Thesprotia. In 1997 it belonged to the Kapodistrian municipality of Acheron [2], while since 2011 it belongs to the enlarged municipality of Souli [1].

Population censuses
Census 1895 1913 1928 1940 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011
Population 27 [4] 83 [8] 131 [2] 171 [2] 246 [2] 294 [2] 223 [2] 185 [2] 184 [2] 208 175 [1]

References

"Purchase (s) of the Municipality of Souli Local Community of Skandalos. Thesprotia - Epirus ". dhmos.gr. Municipalities, cities and villages of Greece. Retrieved December 28, 2016. [dead link]
Michael Stamatelatos, Fotini Vamba-Stamatelatou, Geographical Dictionary of Greece, TA NEA, 2012, Volume I, p. 41.
"Agora". imparamythias.gr. Holy Metropolis of Paramythia, Filiates, Giromeri and Parga. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
Michalis Kokolakis, The Turkish statistics of Epirus in Salname of 1895, Workbooks, issue 18, Center for Modern Greek Studies, Athens 2008, p. 268.
Charalambos Foukis, The basic education in Thesprotia (late Turkish occupation, 1854 - 1913), University of Ioannina, Doctoral Thesis, Ioannina 2008, p. 189.
If. Kokkidis (ed.), Travels of Epirus and Thessaly. Under him in spite of the Ministry of Military Staff Office, From the National Printing Office, Athens 1880, p. 38.
Foukis, 2008, p. 599.
Kingdom of Greece. Ministry of National Economy, Directorate of Statistics, Census of the inhabitants of the new provinces of Greece of the year 1913, In Athens, 1915, p. 66.

Report on the damage done to Epirus in general from the declaration of the Greek-Italian war (28-10-40) until its final liberation, October 1944, Library of the Continental Society of Athens, Athens 1987, pp. 144 and 148.

Sources

"Encyclopedia Papyrus Larousse Britannica" vol.2, p.79.
"Great Greek Encyclopedia" vol. IST, p.158. (Liogati)

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