Kampi, Arta

Kampi is a village in the Municipality of Arta with 921 permanent residents (2011 census), next to the river Louros and is about 11 km away from Arta while the distance from Filippiada is about 2 km. [1] [2]

According to the Kapodistrias Plan, Kampi existed until the end of 2010, a municipal district of the Municipality of Xirovouni with its seat in the Ammotopos. Based on the new administrative division provided by the Kallikratis Plan, the village joined the Municipality of Arta. [3]

Etymology

The original name of the village was "Strevina". According to the German Slavologist Max Vasmer, who with his work "The Slavs in Greece", carried out a comprehensive research on the Slavic toponyms of Greece, the name of the village comes from the Slavic word Trěbьna, which indicates a clean place after by cutting down forest trees. [4]

History

British soldier William Martin Lake visited the Arta area in 1805 and according to his book "Travels in northern Greece", Strevina, along with the Ammotopos, Gorgomylos and Anogia, was one of the most important villages in the Carvasara section and was half an hour away. from Philippi. [5]

According to the work of Spyridon Aravantinos, "History of Ali Pasha of Tepelenlis", Strevina was a tsifliki of the pasha of Ioannina, who owned most of the plain. [6]

Panagiotis Aravantinos in his work "Chronography of Epirus" informs us that based on the list of the census of 1845, Strevina on the property side belonged to the state and 36 Christian families lived in the village. [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 200 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 Lakka section. Strevina was part of the Karvasara section. [8]

In the "Historical Essay on Arta & Preveza" (published in 1884) by Serafeim Xenopoulos, Metropolitan of Arta, reference is made to Strevina. According to this source, about 35 Christian families lived in the village. The inhabitants worshiped in the church of Agios Nikolaos, in which 1 priest officiated and in the church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Near the village there was a temple dedicated to the Prophet Elias and another dedicated to St. Catherine. The Metropolitan of Arta also states that in the village there was a mutual school where one teacher taught and 90 students attended. [9]

An equally important source is the Ottoman census of 1895 (Salnames of Ioannina for the financial year 1311 [1895], seventh edition). [10] According to the relevant Ottoman law, in force from 1864, the primary division of the empire was the vilayet ("prefecture" or "general administration"). Each vilayet was divided into santzaki and those into kazades. According to this census, the village belonged to Kazas Lourou, who was in the sandzaki of Preveza, which in turn belonged to the vilayet of Ioannina. According to this census, Rokka was inhabited by 37 families (hanedes) with a total population of 247 people (133 men, 114 women).

Greek-Turkish war of 1897

During the unfortunate Greek-Turkish war of 1897, the village was temporarily liberated. According to the "History of the Greek Nation", the Greek army until the night of April 23, 1897 had liberated the villages of Kampi, Gavria, Psathotopi, Mytikas, Aneza, Kalogeriko, Vigla, Rachi, Kalovatos, Plisioi, Kyrgilio, Saktazates, Kos Zavaka, Kalomodia, Agia Paraskevi, Keramates, Akropotamia, Neochori, Anthotopos, Chalkiades, Rokka, Agios Spyridonas, Eleftherochori and the city of Filippiada. [11] Finally, with the mediation of European forces and Russia, on September 20, hostilities ceased and peace was signed.

In 1910, the Diocese of Nikopolis and Preveza published the census data that took place in the same year throughout the ecclesiastical district and informs us that Kampi was part of the Louros department and 238 people lived in the village. [12]

First Balkan War and liberation

On October 4, 1912, the Ottoman Empire declared war on Bulgaria and Serbia and with Greece avoided declaring war, hoping for a peaceful settlement. The very next day, however, the Greek government declared war on the Ottoman Empire as a member of the Balkan Coalition.
The commander of the Epirus army, Alexandros Kontoulis.

According to the plan of attack, the army of Thessaly under the command of the successor Constantine would take over the main weight of the operations while the army of Epirus under the command of General Konstantinos Sapoutzakis would have a purely defensive role. The headquarters of the Epirus army headquarters was the city of Arta. The military forces in Arta numbered about 11,000 soldiers, and at the entrance to the Amvrakikos gulf there was the Amvrakikos naval squadron. [13]

General Sapoutzakis, based on the information he had about the organization and movements of the Turkish army, considered it correct to cross the Arachthos and attack and for that he sent a telegram to the General Staff of the Army, which, however, responded negatively to his proposal. Sapoutzakis ignored the telegram and at 2 noon on October 6, the 7th Evzoni Battalion crossed the Arta bridge, accompanied by artillery, repulsed the Turks and established itself in Kostakios and the Marathi area.

On the evening of October 10, 1912, the Turks launched a fierce attack on the hills of Gribovo, displacing the Greek units occupying the northern hills and then heading south, where they met resistance from the 15th Infantry Regiment, its Infantry Regiment. who managed to keep the lines all night. That same night, while fighting was raging in Gribovo, a small detachment of 150 people occupied the strategically important area of ​​Anogia. With the first light of day, on October 11, reinforcements arrived on the hills of Gribovo from the 3rd Battalion of Evzoni of Alexandros Kontoulis and the Greek army managed to expel the Turks from Gribovo, who were fortified on the hills of Kampi. At dawn on October 11, the corps of eunuchs in Anogia made a new attack, which resulted in the capture of the fortress at Pente Pigadia. However, the occupation of Anogia and the fortress by the Evzones put the Turkish army in serious danger and Commander Esat Pasha ordered the immediate retreat to Ioannina so that it would not be cut off and destroyed in the Louros valley and the difficult passages of the Five Wells. The retreat took place on the night of October 11-12, 1912, and the Turkish army permanently left the area of ​​Arta. [14]

Demographics

Today the population is 921 permanent residents (2011 census), [15] showing a decrease compared to the 2001 census, where the population was 1,012. [16] The first time the village exceeded 900 inhabitants was in 1961 while the maximum number of inhabitants was in 2001 with 1012 inhabitants. With the 2011 census, the population level approached that of 1971. Population fluctuations are shown in the table below.

References

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Greek census 2011. [1]
Administrative division of the Municipality of Arta with the Kallikratis Plan
“Strevina ON, Kr. Philippias (Lex. Und Philippson, Epirus 253). Der Name kann gedeutet werden als slav. * Trodebьna Rodeort, wozu auch Trebbin. Trebnitz, skr. Trebnje, auch Trebinje, Trebino, gehören. Es besteht aber auch die Möglichkeit einer Auffasung als »Grasort«, bulg. Tr ausvna aus * Trěvьna von trěva »Gras«. Eine Entscheidung ist schwer. In beiden Fällen muß das anlautende Σ- durch Sandhi im Neugriech. Erklärt werden, wie in anderen Beispielen bei G. Meyer, Analecta Graeciensia (Graz 1893) S. 1 ff. Die falsche Worttrennung konnte aufkommen in * εἰς Τρεβίνα. », Die Slaven in Griechenland, Max Vasmer, Βερολίνο, Πρωσσική Ακαδημία Επιστημών, 1941.
«The chief villages in Kambo are Mehmetjaus and Rakhi.In Kervasara are Strivina, Kometzadhes, Muliana, Klisura, near Pendepigadhia, and Akoghi. Filipiadhes on the river of St. George half an hour from Strivina », Travels in northern Greece - Volume 4, William Martin Leake, p202.
History of Ali Pasha of Tepelenlis / Sp. P. Aravantinou. I wrote on the basis of an anecdotal work by Panagiotos Aravantinos, 1895, p.601
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, ed.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
History of the Greek-Turkish war: from the beginning of the last Cretan revolution until the end of the war, I wrote on the basis of official documents and the safest information after many images and topographic maps / Elias I. Economopoulou, 1897, p.462.
The late Gianniotiko Pasaliki: space, administration and population in the Turkish-occupied Epirus (1820-1913), Michalis Kokolakis, p.492 [2]
The liberation of Preveza, Karabelas Nikos, published by Collections, 1992, ISBN 960-7463-005.
General Staff of the Army: the Greek Army during the Balkan Wars 1912-1913.
Greek census 2011

Census of March 18, 2001, Hellenic Statistical Authority (EL.STAT.). [3] Archived 2015-06-28 on Wayback Machine.

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