Kalomodia, Arta

History

Historically, the first source to inform us of the existence of the village is the work "Journey to Greece", by François Pouqueville, published in 1820. Puckeville refers to the plain of Arta and informs us that the Kalomodia were about a mile from Apomero. and three-quarters of the Arachthos River. At a distance of two miles from the village there was a crossroads and from that point, at a distance of half a mile one could reach Anthotopos and Keramates. [3]

According to the work of Spyridon Aravantinos, "History of Ali Pasha of Tepelenlis", Kalomodia was the tsifliki of the pasha of Ioannina, who owned most of the plain while based on the work of Konstantinos Diamantis entitled "Arta and its environs during the times of the revolution ", Kalomodia was a small settlement with 15 families during the period when the Greek Revolution of 1821 broke out. [4] [5]

Panagiotis Aravantinos in his work "Chronography of Epirus" informs us that, based on the list of the census of 1845, Kalomodia, in terms of ownership, belonged to the category "muatzeli", belonged to the department of Ioannina and lived 12 Christian families while the exhibition of the Russian Sub-Consulate of Arta, in 1877, informs us that the village was owned by Artinos Konstantinos Karapanos and was inhabited by 12 families. [6] [7] Ifikratis Kokkidis also refers to the village in his work "Journeys of Epirus and Thessaly" published by the Greek Ministry of the Army (Athens 1880) and gives us the information that the village was inhabited by about 100 people. I. Kokkidis informs us that the province of Arta was divided into 2 areas: the area of ​​Arta and the area of ​​Preveza. The area of ​​Arta was in turn divided into 7 sections: Potamia section, Vryseos section, Radovyzi section, Tzoumerka section, Kambou section, Karvasara section and Lakkas section. Kalomodia was part of the Potamia section. [8]

A remarkable source is the "Essay Historian on Artis & Preveza" (published in 1884) by Serafeim Xenopoulos, Metropolitan of Arta. According to this source, at that time 15 families lived in the village. The Metropolitan of Arta also mentions that 50 students from Kalomodia, Agia Paraskevi and Anthotopos attended 2 2nd grade textbooks, in which they studied geography, history, arithmetic and religion. Reference is also made to the existence of a grassland in the village, which was owned by the Holy Diocese of Arta. [9]

Equally important is the 1895 Ottoman census published under the title “Binüc yüz on bir senei maliyesine mahsus Yanya alnamesi. Yedinci defa olarak ”(Salnames of Ioannina for the financial year 1311 (1895), seventh edition). Based on this census, 14 families (khanedes) with a total population of 79 people (41 men, 38 women) lived in Kalomodia. [10]

In 1910, the Diocese of Nikopolis and Preveza published the census data of the same year throughout the ecclesiastical district and informed us that Kalomodia belonged to the Louros department and 110 people lived in the village. [11]

Location and access

The village is adjacent to a total of 5 other villages: Keramates, Agia Paraskevi, Pachikalamos, Psathotopi and Gavria.

Access from the city of Arta is very easy using the modern Arta-Neochori road, passing through the villages of Keramates, Anthotopos and Agia Paraskevi. There is also a direct bus line from the Urban KTEL Arta with regular daily itineraries and a terminal station in the village.
Demographics-Economy

Today the population is 298 permanent residents (2011 census) with agriculture and livestock as their main occupation. The soil is characterized as ephemeral, with main crops: orange, mandarin, kiwi, clover, corn and various vegetables. There is also a small orange juice industry. Livestock farming refers mainly to small herds of lambs.

Population fluctuations are shown in the table below. [12]

Climate

The climate of the area is temperate with heavy rainfall and humidity from autumn to spring and intense heat and relative drought during the summer months.

Sport

The football field of the local team, Olympiada Agia Paraskevi, is also located in the village.

The landing area of ​​the Aviation Club of Western Greece has also been operating in the village since 2014 and was officially named by the Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks as "Arachthos Sminagos Airport (I) Anastasios Balatsoukas", giving the highest honor to the unfortunate victims. 16 from Arta, on August 26, 2010.

References

Administrative division of the Municipality of Arta with the Kallikratis Plan
Modi. [1] [dead link]
«Si on côtoie l'Inachus eti descendant sa rive droite pendant trois quarts d'heure, on passe à Calamotia, en laissant un quart de lieue au sud-ouest Badoûla. A deux milles du premier de ces villages, que le sentier traverse, on découvre une demi - lieue à l'occident Kyrnicolo et Kyramatès. Enfin à deux lieues et demie du pont de l'Arta, on trouve Néochori, village environné de rizières, à travers lesquelles l'Inachus coule pendant un mille avant de se rendre à la mer. Tel est le signalement de cette contrée, que je prie le lecteur de ne pas pas dédaigner, puisqu'avec ces noms barbares il va nouns rèvèler l'existence d'une des villes le plus vaguement indiqueès dans la gèographie malgrè son importance historique. ». Voyage dans la Grèce, François Charles Hugues Laurent Pouqueville, 1820.
History of Ali Pasha of Tepelenlis / Sp. P. Aravantinou. I wrote on the basis of an anecdotal work by Panagiotos Aravantinos, 1895, p.601
Arta and its surroundings during the revolution, Skoufas Magazine / Year 5/1960 - Volume II p.266
Archives of the Russian Sub-Consulate of Arta - Preveza, periods 1858 - 1881 [dead link]
Chronography of Epirus: of the neighboring Greek and Illyrian countries, which in turn ran the events in them from the year of salvation until 1854. / Coordinated by Panagiotou Aravantinou, p.320, published in 1856.
Travels of Epirus and Thessaly / under the Ministry of Military Staff, I. Kokidis, Athens 1880.
Essay on the History of Arta and Preveza (published in 1884).
The Turkish statistics of Epirus in the salmon of 1895, M. Kokolakis
The late Gianniotiko Pasaliki: space, administration and population in the Turkish-occupied Epirus (1820-1913), Michalis Kokolakis, p.491 [2]

"Archive of the National Statistical Service of Greece - Ε.Σ.Υ.Ε". Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 31 October 2015.

External links

Website of the settlement.
Municipality of N. Skoufa

Municipal unit Arachthos
Municipal Community Neochori
Neochori (Νεοχώρι, το)
Community Agia Paraskevi
Agia Paraskevi (Αγία Παρασκευή, η)
Anthotopos (Ανθότοπος, ο)
Kalomodia (Καλομόδια, τα)
Community Akropotamia
Akropotamia (Ακροποταμιά, η)
Community Loutrotopos
Loutrotopos (Λουτρότοπος, ο)
Νέος Συνοικισμός Λουτροτόπου, ο
Community Pachykalamos
Pachykalamos (Παχυκάλαμος, ο)
Community Peranthi
Peranthi (Περάνθη, η)
Community Sykies
Sykies (Συκιές, οι)

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