Keramates, Arta

Keramates (Κεραμάτες) Arta

Keramates is a village in the Municipality of Arta with 409 permanent residents (2011 census), [1] in the plain of Arta. The village is located next to the river Arachthos and is about 3 km away from the city.

According to the Kapodistrias Plan, Keramates joined the Municipality of Arta, where they remained after the new administrative division provided by the Kallikratis Plan. [2]

History

The first source that informs us of the existence of the village is the archives of Venice, [3] in which we are informed that in the year 1697, Keramates together with many other villages of Arta, paid tax to the Venetian administration in exchange for protection from them. pirate raids.

François Pouqueville in "Journey to Greece", published in 1820, refers to the Keramates and informs us that at a distance of two miles from Kalomodia there was a crossroads and from that point, at a distance of half a mile one could reach Flowerpot in Keramates as well. [4]

According to the work of Spyridon Aravantinos, "History of Ali Pasha of Tepelenlis", Keramates were 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 surroundings during the times of the revolution ", Keramates was a small settlement with 20 families during the period when the Greek Revolution of 1821 broke out. [5] [6]

Panagiotis Aravantinos in his work "Chronography of Epirus" informs us that, based on the list of the census of 1845, Keramates, in terms of ownership, belonged to the category "muatzeli" and lived in it 8 Christian families. [7] The report of the Russian Sub-Consulate of Arta, in 1877, informs us that 16 Christian families lived in Keramates and the village was owned by K. Karapanos. [8]

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 35 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. The Keramates were part of the Potamia section. [9]

Keramates and the neighboring villages on a map of 1878.

In the "Essay on the History of Arta & Preveza" (published in 1884) by Serafeim Xenopoulos, Metropolitan of Arta, reference is made to Keramates. According to this source, at the time of the visit of the Metropolitan of Arta, about 15 families lived in the village while in the winter 40 Vlachs came down. The inhabitants of the church were in the church of the Holy Trinity, where a pastor was officiating. Near the village there was a square church with remarkable frescoes, which was discovered in 1865. The Metropolitan of Arta also mentions that in the village there was a school where the priest taught and 20 students studied geography, history, arithmetic and religion. [10]

An equally important source is the Ottoman census of 1895 (Salnames of Ioannina for the financial year 1311 [1895], seventh edition). [11] 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. Based on this census, Keramates was inhabited by 7 families (hanedes) with a total population of 51 people (25 men, 26 women).

During the unfortunate Greek-Turkish war of 1897, the village was temporarily liberated. As reported in the "History of the Greek Nation", the Greek army had liberated the villages of Keramates, Gavria, Psathotopi, Mytikas, Aneza, Kalogeriko, Vigla, Rachi, Kalovatos, Plisioi, Zargyli, Kirkizates, until the night of April 23, 1897. Kalomodia, Agia Paraskevi, Arta, Kostakioi, Akropotamia, Neochori, Anthotopos, Chalkiades, Rokka, Agios Spyridonas, Eleftherochori, Kampi and the city of Philippi. [12] Finally, with the mediation of European forces and Russia, on September 20, hostilities ceased and peace was signed.

The liberation of Keramates took place between October 6 and 9, 1912, when the first Greek battalions crossed the Arta bridge and at 2 noon repulsed the Turks and established themselves in Kostaki and the Marathi area. For the next 2 days, the Greek army captured and fortified the surrounding villages of Plisios, Rokka, Chalkiades.

In 1910, the Diocese of Nikopolis and Preveza published the census data for the same year throughout the ecclesiastical district and informed us that Keramates belonged to the Louros department and 57 people lived in the village. [13]

Administrative changes

In 1919, Keramates joined the neighboring community of Agia Paraskevi. [14] The recognition of Keramata as an autonomous community took place in 1946. [15] In 1997 the community was abolished and according to the Kapodistrias Plan, Keramates became a municipal district of the Municipality of Arta where they remained based on the new administrative division provided by the Kallikratis Plan. [16]
Location and access

The village is adjacent to the villages: Kostakiou, Agia Paraskevi, Anthotopos and Kalomodia.

Sport

Hermes Keramaton is the football team of the village. [17]

Important faces

Konstantinos Kateros: Commander, who lost his life on July 22, 1974, in the shot down "Victory 4", Noratlas 52-13, during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. [18]

References

Hellenic Statistical Authority (2012) Results of the 2011 Population and Housing Census concerning the Permanent Population of the Country Government Gazette 3465 / ΒΔ / 28 December 2012 (pdf)
Administrative division of the Municipality of Arta with the Kallikratis Plan
Arta in the archives of Venice, magazine "Skoufas" of Arta, issues of 1955-56.
«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 years of the revolution, Skoufas Magazine / Year 5/1960 - Volume II p.266
Chronography of Epirus: of the most 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.
Archives of the Russian Sub-Consulate of Arta - Preveza, periods 1858 - 1881 [dead link]
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 [1]
The settlement is annexed to the community of Agia Paraskevi, Government Gazette 181A - 14/08/1919. [2] [dead link]
The settlement is detached from the community of Agia Paraskevi and is designated the seat of the community of Keramata, Government Gazette 275A - 09/09/1946. [3] [dead link]
Administrative division of the Municipality of Arta with the Kallikratis Plan
EPS Arta Teams. [4] Archived 2015-09-30 on Wayback Machine.

Thirty-three of the 2 Noratlas.

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