Kallifonio, Karditsa

Kallifonio (Καλλιφώνιον) Karditsa

Kallifoni or Kallifonio is a village in the municipality of Karditsa, in the regional unit (former prefecture) of Karditsa, Thessaly. According to the 2011 census it has 1,017 inhabitants. It is 13 km from Karditsa. [1]


History

Kallifoni in the middle of the 19th century was a tsifliki of the Turkish Muheddin Bey, while in the past it was a tsifliki of Ali Pasha. Bey's konaki was located in the village, near Kefalorema. The tsifliki was inherited by his son Petridin Veis and after his untimely death, his widow, Nadire, settled in Larissa in 1882. After the departure of the Muslims from Thessaly, Dimitrios Giannakopoulos bought part of the tsifliki. Tsifliki was expropriated in 1923. [1]

After 1881, Kallifoni became the seat of the municipality and a police station was established there. During the Greek-Turkish war of 1897, Nikolaos Plastiras took refuge in the village, as he beat a Turkish man in retaliation for the behavior of the Turkish commander's son, according to him, while the oral tradition in Kallifoni states that he had killed him. [1]

Population

The following is the course of the population according to the censuses:
Census 1881 1889 1896 1907 1920 1928 1940 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 1991 2001 2011
Population 430 [2] 625 [3] 580 [4] 579 [5] 743 [6] 913 [7] 1,210 [7] 1,333 [7] 1,601 [7] 1,372 [7] 1,262 [7] 1,241 [7] 1,219 1,017

Administrative changes

After the annexation of Kallifonio to Greece together with the rest of Thessaly in 1881, in 1883 the seat of the municipality of Kallifonio, in the prefecture of Trikala, was defined. With the Government Gazette 136A (08/07/1899) the settlement belongs to the prefecture of Karditsa, until 1909, when with the Government Gazette 282A - 04/12/1909, it belongs again to the prefecture of Trikala. The municipality of Kallifoni was abolished in 1912 and Kallifoni was designated the seat of a homonymous community in the province of Karditsa. In 1944, with the Government Gazette 82A, it belongs to the prefecture of Karditsa. With the Kapodistrias program, the community of Kallifoni was abolished in 1997 and Kallifoni was designated the seat of the municipality of Kallifoni. With the Kallikratis program, the municipality of Kallifoni was abolished and joined the municipality of Karditsa. [8]

Sights

Three kilometers north of the village is the monastery of Panagia Faneromeni. The monastery was built at the beginning of the 19th century for the preservation of the icon of Panagia tis Faneromeni. The monastery celebrates on August 23. [1]
civilization

In addition to the celebration of the monastery of Panagia Faneromeni on August 23, the village hosts traditional places on Easter and Christmas Day, the carnival custom of the Rogkatsaris and every two years a traditional Karagouni wedding is revived. [1]

References

Local Community of Kallifoni Archived 2020-01-26 at Wayback Machine. Municipality of Karditsa
Greek census of Thessaly-Arta 1881, p. 36
Greek census 1889, p. 158
Greek census 1896, p. 166
Greek census 1907, p. 425
Greek census 1920, p. 24 'Table IV
Michael Stamatelatos - Fotini Vamba-Stamatelatou, Abbreviated Geographical Dictionary of Greece, Hermes, Athens 2001, p. 292.
"Kallifonion (Karditsis)". Residential Changes - Detailed. ΕΕΤΑΑ. Retrieved on November 3, 2017.

Municipal unit Kallifono
Community Apidia
Ampelakia (Αμπελάκια, τα)
Apidia (Απιδέα, η)
Community Dafnospilia
Dafnospilia (Δαφνοσπηλιά, η)
Community Zaimi
Zaimi (Ζαΐμιον, το)
Community Kallifonio
Kallifonio (Καλλιφώνιον, το)
Mavroneri (Μαυρονέριον, το)
Community Molocha
Molocha (Μολόχα, η)
Community Paliouri
Paliouri (Παλιούριον, το)
Municipal unit Kampos
Community Agios Theodoros
Agios Theodoros (Άγιος Θεόδωρος, ο)
Community Makrychori
Makrychori (Μακρυχώριον, το)
Community Melissa
Melissa (Μέλισσα, η)
Community Myrina
Myrina (Μύρινα, η)
Community Prodromos
Prodromos (Πρόδρομος, ο)
Community Ptelopoula
Ptelopoula (Πτελοπούλα, η)
Community Stavros
Stavros (Σταυρός, ο)

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