Karpochori, Karditsa

Karpochori (Καρποχώριον) Karditsa

Karpochori Karditsa is a lowland village of the Municipality of Sofada in the Prefecture of Karditsa. It is located in the center of the prefecture, 12 km SE of Karditsa.

Location and population data

The village used to be called Gerbesi. [1] It is named after an Albanian landowner, Gerbesis. It was renamed Karpochori in 1927. According to local tradition, the name seems to have been chosen because it had a large crop of cereals that year, mainly wheat. [2]

History

The village of Karpochori (Gerbesi) after the fall of Constantinople is mentioned in the Ottoman manuscript A 'census of the years 1454 to 1455, [3] but also in the geographical map of the time. It is also mentioned in a code of the Monastery of Megalo Meteoro in the years 1592 and 1593 Intent 421 [4] with 34 devotees. It also refers to codes [5] of the Ottoman archival collection. [6] In these documents, according to the census of the Ottoman Empire, which at that time were intended for the taxation of the inhabitants, Gerbesi appears in the catalogs of vilayet-I Fanar that he paid a capital tax in the years 1663,1665,1666, and 1676. [7] The year 1663 had 26 houses, while the year 1676 had 33 houses. A few days before the signing of the Istanbul Agreement (1881) between Greece and Turkey for the concession of Thessaly to free Greece in 1881, Ioannis A. Kartalis, a resident of Volos, during the departure of the Ottomans, bought the Gherbesi tsifliki [8] by the Turks Gaki Vei, Hasan Vei, and her mother Attike Hanum. In 1883 the males of the village under the age of 40 were registered in the register of Gerbesi (Karpochori). In the electoral list of Gerbesi of 1883, 114 citizens are registered, which at that time was a municipal district of the Municipality of Kallifoni. [9] On 23/03/1878, when the Greek revolutionary forces fought the Turks in Petromagoula of the Kierio Tower for the liberation of Thessaly, the commander-in-chief, George Laios, sent the squid to the village of Gerbesi for reinforcements. [10]

Karagounides have ancient origins, customs, traditions and other customs. In the old days, women wore the traditional Karagouni costume until the 1960s. [11] It is reported that in the place Ambelia the existence of an ancient settlement. There are awards that testify to the location of the ancient settlement. During the on-site archeological excavations, ancient clay objects were found, while there are reports of illegal excavations. [12] The seismic tremor captured by the Sofada quake was very strong, measuring 6.7 -7 on the Richter scale and was felt throughout Greece. The epicenter was reported 6 kilometers south of Karpochori, in the area of ​​Sofada. This earthquake took place on April 30, 1953 at 3 pm. Since this earthquake, all the houses in Karpochori have been severely damaged and the church of the village of Agios Nikolaos tou Neos (old monastery) has been demolished. The Sofada earthquake came from the fault southeast of Karditsa and covers an area of ​​50 kilometers. [13]

Residents' occupations and description of a settlement

The inhabitants of the village are mainly engaged in agriculture but also in animal husbandry. Until the expropriation of the tsifliki in 1923, the villagers worked as colligs on the lands of the tsiflikads of the area. The Ottoman tsiflikades Ali Pasha, Veli Pasha, Osman Veis, Gaki Veis, Attike Hanoum, and the Greeks Ioannis A. Kartalis and Lavtsis are mentioned. [14] The final decision on the expropriation of the tsifliki was made by Nikolaos Plastiras on February 14, 1923 with a revolutionary act [15] which stipulated that all tsifliki had to be expropriated for the restoration of the landless cultivators. [16] [17] After the expropriation the tsif Gerbesi shared with the homeless residents of the settlement. The distribution took place in the year 1932. According to the status of the final distribution of a farm in KARPOCHORI, 1932, a lot of 80 acres was given to each landless farmer. In 1932, the Turkish cognac, which is not preserved today and was the residence of Ottoman tsiflikades, was given to Georgios Papavassiliou of Anagnostis. The village has two churches, the Church of St. Nicholas, which celebrates the Feast of St. Nicholas the Younger in the Mountains on May 9, and the Church of St. Andrew, which celebrates November 30. [18]
Education

The primary school operates as a six-seater. The school year 1911 had 42 students. In 1960 it had 184 students, and in 2000 it had 68 students. Kindergarten in the school year 1967 had 34 infants and in the school year 2005 18 infants. On July 1, 1943, a German plane landed near the village of Karpochori on the west side of the village, 400 meters from it. Men from the National Resistance shot and killed one of the two pilots, and then put him on the plane and set it on fire. The next day, July 2, 1943, in retaliation, the Germans went and burned all the houses in the village. [19]

Footnotes and references

Website of the Hellenic Society of Local Development and Local Government, K. Gerbesiou N. Trikala [dead link]
Panagiotis E. Kourtesiotis Karpochori (Gerbesi) Karditsa 1454 / 55- 1998 2nd edition
as DER KARVE-I KIBRISI. HICRI 859 TARIHLI SURET -I DEFTER-I SANCAK-I TIRHALA.
Holy Monastery of Megalo Meteoro, in f.33 b '
T4 and T5 codes.
General State Archives, N. Kozani Archives
Konstantinos E. Kambouridis. Modern Greece through Ottoman archival sources p. 82.
According to contract number 5423, on June 7, 1881.
Municipality of Kallifoni 1883.
Konstantinos Oikonomou “Larissa and history-vol. Δ΄ »
G. Kavvadias, Karagounides 1: Contribution to the Sociology of beliefs
Panagiotis E. Kourtesiotis Karpochori (Gerbesi) Karditsa "Archaeological sites-vineyards" p. 125 1454 / 55-1998 ISBN 978-960-930329-3
Panagiotis E. Kourtesiotis Karpochori (Gerbesi) Karditsa "Bulletin 1965 National Observatory of Athens-1454/55" 1998
Ali Pasha Archive, and the contract number 5423 between Turks and Ioannis A. Kartalis
With the number 1 revolutionary act published on March 5 of the same year
G. Karanikolas, Killerer
Lazaros Arseniou, The epic of the Thessalian farmers
Panagiotis E. Kourtesiotis, Karpochori (Gerbesi) Karditsa, 1454 / 55-1998

Panagiotis Kourtesiotis, Karpochori (Gerbesi) Karditsa, 1454 / 55-1998

Suggested bibliography

Panagiotis Kourtesiotis, Karpochori (Gerbesi) Karditsa 1454/55, Local and folklore history, 2nd edition, Karditsa 2010, ISBN 978-960-930329-3,

Municipal unit Sofades
Municipal Community Sofades
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Community Agia Paraskevi
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Community Agios Vissarios
Agios Vissarios (Άγιος Βησσάριος, ο)
Community Ampelos
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Community Anogeio
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Community Gefyria
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Community Dasochori
Dasochori (Δασοχώριον, το)
Community Kappadokiko
Kappadokiko (Καππαδοκικόν, το)
Community Karpochori
Karpochori (Καρποχώριον, το)
Community Moscholouri
Moscholouri (Μασχολούριον, το)
Community Mavrachades
Mavrachades (Μαυραχάδες, οι)
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Melissochori (Μελισσοχώριον, το)
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