Drosato, Kerkyra

Drosato is a lowland village of Corfu at an altitude of 120 meters [1]. It is a small village in North Corfu and is 28.3 km away from Corfu town. Its old name is Malakoi or Malakioi and it was given in honor of a great lawyer of the island of Corfu who was called Dimitrios Malakis. Parish church is Agios Nikolaos of Stone which celebrates the 20th of May. As a settlement, it is officially mentioned in 1866 in the Government Gazette 9A - 28/01/1866 to be attached to the then municipality of Periagron. In 1955, with the Government Gazette 287A - 10/10/1955, it was renamed Drosaton [2]. According to the Kallikratis plan, even after its amendment in 2019, it is the local community of Drosatos that belongs to the municipal unit of Agios Georgios of the municipality of North Corfu [3] and according to the 2011 census has a population of 146 inhabitants [4].

References

Encyclopedia New Structure. Athens: Tegopoulos - Maniateas. 1996. p. 260, vol. 10.
"EETAA-Hellenic Society for Local Development and Local Government SA". www.eetaa.gr. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
"Law 4600/2019 - Government Gazette 43 / A / 9-3-2019 (Articles 98-178)". Legislative Information Bank | e-nomothesia.gr. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
"Official Gazette of the results of the ONLY census 2011", p. 10671 (p. 197 of the pdf)

See also: Corfu Island (Kerkyra)