Aristi, Ioannina

Aristi (Αρίστη) Ioannina

Aristi is a village in the prefecture of Ioannina in the municipality of Zagori, built at an altitude of 642 meters[2] at a distance of 48 km NW of Ioannina.[3] The original name of the settlement was Artsista, while in 1928 it received its current name.[4] The population of Aristi according to the 2011 census was 128 inhabitants while at the same time, it is classified as a traditional settlement.[2]

General elements

Aristi is believed to have been created or, according to another version, to have been populated with residents from the abandoned settlement of Vopatis and Agios Minas[5]. During the 19th century, a strong immigration wave was observed from Aristi to Serbia[6]. Aristi is historically one of the first Zagorochoria to have a school[7], which was financially supported by the contributions of the neighboring Spilaiotissa monastery[8]. During the Ottoman census of 1895, the population of Aristi amounted to 899 inhabitants[9]. During the last years of the Turkish rule, the settlement had a boys' school with 50 students and a girls' school with 40 students[10].

According to the data of the first census after the liberation of Aristi, the population of the settlement amounted in 1913 to 574 inhabitants[11]. Within the context of the Greek state, the settlement was initially included in the Dodoni province, while in 1997, following the changes in local government as part of the "Kapodistrias" project, it was included in the municipality of Central Zagori[2]. Since January 1, 2011, the village falls under the municipality of Zagori.

At a short distance from the village, there are ruins of a settlement - fortress from the Byzantine period as well as the holy monastery of Theotokos Spilaiotissa, the foundation of which dates back to around 1579[8][12].
Prominent residents

Giorgis Zoidis (1916 - 1999), writer[13].
Ioannis Kokkinos, local benefactor[14].
Konstantinos Loumas, local benefactor[14]
Nikolaos Mandalakis, local benefactor[15].
Ioannis Michaelidis, scholar[16].
Phaidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou, PhD in landscape archeology[17]
Fotis Petsas (1918 - 2004), archaeologist[2].
Yannis Saralis (1906 - 1985), educator and writer[18].

Population censuses
Census 1895 1913 1928 1940 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011
Population 899[9] 574[11] 458[2] 424[2] 438[2] 329[2] 204[2] 225[2] 174[2] 176[19] 128[20]
References

Germaine Alexaki, Thodoris Athanasiadis, Live in the most beautiful mountain villages of Greece, Atrapos, 2nd edition, Athens 2003, p. 78.
Michael Stamatelatos, Fotini Vamva-Stmatelatou, Geographical Dictionary of Greece, TA NEA, 2012, Volume I, p. 98.
"Zagorohoria: West Zagori - Aristi". Archived from the original on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
Pandektis - Institute of Modern Greek Research
Ioannou Lampridou, Zagoria added to them and things about Epirus, from the Printing House of Avgi, Athens, 1870, pp. 19 - 20.
Lampridou, 1870, p. 20.
Lampridou, 1870, p. 21.
Ioannou Lampridou, About the benevolent works in Epirus, Typophis Georgiou Kiousis, Athens, 1880, volume I, p. 58.
Michalis Kokolakis, The Turkish statistics of Epirus in Salname of 1895, in Work Notebooks, issue 18, Center for Modern Greek Research, Athens 2008, p 265.
Georgiou Dimitrakopoulou, Zagorion - i.e. a history of the 46 villages of Epirus, Type "Avgi" of the Sakellarid Brothers, En Souflio, 1909, p. 30.
Basil of Greece, Ministry of National Economy, Directorate of Statistics, Enumeration of the inhabitants of the new provinces of Greece in the year 1913, p. 59.
Fotios M. Petsas, Pages from the History of Epirotes from mythical times to our days, IMIACH publications, Ioannina 1993, pp. 141-144.
"The historian Giorgis Zoidis has left". rizospastis.gr. Radical. 10 August 1999. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
Alexaki - Athanasiadis, 2003, p. 80.
Alexaki - Athanasiadis, 2003, p. 79.
Lampridou, 1870, p. 22.
Phaedon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou
"SARALIS YIANNIS (1906 - 1985)". izagori.gr. Zagori, Nature and Culture - Digital Guide. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
Census 2001, p. 144.

epirusonline: How many people live in Epirus - All 2011 census Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine..

Bibliography

Germaine Alexaki - Thodoris Athanasiadis, Live in the most beautiful mountain villages of Greece, Atrapos, second edition, Athens 2003.
Georgiou Dimitrakopoulou, Zagorion - i.e. the history of the 46 villages in the Epirus region, Typos "Avgis" of the Sakellarid Brothers, En Souflio, 1909.
Michalis Kokolakis, The Turkish statistics of Epirus in Salname of 1895, in Work Notebooks, issue 18, Center for Modern Greek Research, Athens 2008.
Ioannou Lampridou, Zagoria and those about Epirus were added, From the Printing House of Avgi, Athens, 1870.
Ioannou Lampridou, About the benevolent works in Epirus, Typos Georgiou Kiousis, Athens, 1880.
Fotios M. Petsas, Pages from the History of Epirotes from mythical times to our days, IMIACH publications, Ioannina 1993.
Michael Stamatelatos- Fotini Vamva-Stmatelatou, Geographical Dictionary of Greece, TA NEA, 2012.
Basil of Greece, Ministry of National Economy, Directorate of Statistics, Enumeration of the inhabitants of the new provinces of Greece in the year 1913.

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