Drimitsa, Thesprotia

Drimitsa (Δρίμιτσα) Thesprotia

Drimitsa (until 1940 Drymitsa [1]) is a mountain village in the municipality of Igoumenitsa in the prefecture of Thesprotia, Epirus. According to the 2011 census, its population is 10 permanent residents.

General elements

Drimitsa is located 15 km northeast of the prefecture's capital, Igoumenitsa, at an altitude of 450 meters. The settlement is mentioned in the Ottoman census of 1895, according to which it belonged to the Margariti kaza and had 21 families (105 inhabitants, of which 62 men and 43 women [4]). After the Balkan Wars of 1912 - 1913, it was annexed like the rest of Thesprotia to Greece and according to the census conducted by the Greek authorities, it had a population of 152 inhabitants (80 men and 72 women [5]). At the beginning of 1944, during the Occupation, Tsamid residents of Drimitsa (along with Tsamids in other parts of Thesprotia) were equipped by the German military authorities, forming a local doctrinal militia.

Administratively, after the integration into Greece, Drimitsa first came under the subordination of Filiates and Goumenitsis [5] and then came to the province of Thyamidos [1]. In 1997, after the changes of the Kapodistrias plan, it came under the municipality of Parapotamos [1], while from 2011 it belongs to the municipality of Igoumenitsa [3]. Ecclesiastically, it belongs to the Diocese of Paramythia, Filiates, Giromeri and Parga.

Population censuses
Census 1895 1913 1928 1940 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 1991 2001 2011
Population 105 [4] 152 [5] 127 [1] 154 [1] 59 [1] 76 [1] 48 [1] 26 [1] 20 [1] 13 10 [2]

References

Michael Stamatelatos, Fotini Vamva-Stamatelatou, Geographical Dictionary of Greece, TA NEA, 2012, Volume I, p. 203.
“Drimitsa (the) Municipality of Igoumenitsa Local Community of Drimitsa. Thesprotia - Epirus ". dhmos.gr. Municipalities, cities and villages of Greece. Retrieved November 3, 2016. [dead link]
"Municipal Unit of Parapotamos". igoumenitsa.gr. Municipality of Igoumenitsa. It was archived from the original on October 29, 2016. Retrieved on November 3, 2016.
Michalis Kokolakis, The Turkish Statistics of Epirus in Salname in 1895, in the Workbooks, issue 18, Center for Modern Greek Studies, Athens 2008, p. 310.
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. 69.

Athanasios Gotovos, Tsamuria. Identities in the occupied Thesprotia and the role of the Muslim minority, Alternative Publications, Athens 2016, pp. 63-64.

Bibliography

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.
Athanasios Gotovos, Tsamuria. Identities in the occupied Thesprotia and the role of the Muslim minority, Alternative Publications, Athens 2016.
Michalis Kokolakis, The Turkish Statistics of Epirus in Salname in 1895, in the Workbooks, issue 18, Center for Modern Greek Studies, Athens 2008.
Michael Stamatelatos, Fotini Vamba-Stamatelatou, Geographical Dictionary of Greece, Volume I, TA NEA, 2012.

Municipal unit Parapotamos
Community Geroplatanos
Geroplatanos (Γεροπλάτανος, ο)
Community Dramesi
Agios Georgios (Άγιος Γεώργιος, ο)
Dramesi (Δράμεση, η)
Community Drimitsa
Drimitsa (Δρίμιτσα, η)
Community Koritiani
Dilofo (Δίλοφο, το)
Kato Koritiani (Κάτω Κορίτιανη, η)
Koritiani (Κορίτιανη, η)
Semeriza (Σεμερίζα, η)
Community Parapotamos
Parapotamos (Παραπόταμος, ο)

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