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Regional unit : Thesprotia

Geroplatanos (Γεροπλάτανος) Thesprotia

Geroplatanos (former Doliani and Geroplatanos [1]) is a village in the municipality of Igoumenitsa, in the prefecture of Thesprotia, Epirus. According to the 2011 census, its population is 42.

General and historical data

Geroplatanos is located in the area of ​​the village of Pigadoulia and is built at an altitude of 80 meters [1]. To the west flows the Thyamis, while to the north the road Ioannina - Filiates passes.

According to the Ottoman statistics of 1895, the population of Geroplatanos was 305 inhabitants (175 men and 130 women), divided into 66 tax havens [3]. It was incorporated into Greece - along with the rest of Thesprotia - during the Balkan Wars and, according to the 1913 census, had 298 inhabitants. Until World War II, the majority of the settlement's population belonged to the Cham minority.

Administratively, during the late period of Ottoman rule, it belonged to the Filiates kaza [3], while within the Greek state it was initially subordinated to the province of Filiates [1]. In 1997 it was annexed to the municipality of Parapotamos, while since 2011 it belongs to the municipal unit of Parapotamos of the Kallikratikos municipality of Igoumenitsa. 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 305 [3] 298 [4] 297 [1] 292 [1] 108 [1] 104 [1] 78 [1] 62 [1] 64 [1] 83 42 [2]


References

Michael Stamatelatos, Fotini Vamba-Stamatelatou, Geographical Dictionary of Greece, TA NEA, 2012, Volume I, p. 162.
Newspaper of the Government of the Hellenic Republic, issue Two, March 20, 2014, no. sheet 698, p. 10587.
Michalis Kokolakis, The Turkish Statistics of Epirus in Salname in 1895, in the Workbooks, issue 18, Center for Modern Greek Studies, Athens 2008, p. 271.
Kingdom of Greece, Ministry of National Economy, Directorate of Statistics, Census of the inhabitants of the new provinces of Greece of the year 1913, From the National Printing Office, In Athens, 1915, p. 69.

Athanasios Gotovos, Tsamuria. Identities in the occupied Thesprotia and the role of the Muslim minority, Alternative Publications, Athens 2016, p. 92.

Sources

"Encyclopedia Papyrus Larousse Britannica", vol. 16, p. 443.

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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Geroplatanos (Γεροπλάτανος) Chalkidiki
Geroplatanos (Γεροπλάτανος) Ioannina
Geroplatanos (Γεροπλάτανος) Preveza
Geroplatanos (Γεροπλάτανος) Thesprotia

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