Kirkizates, Arta

Kirkizates (Κιρκιζάτες) Arta

Kirkizates is a village in the Municipality of Arta with 474 permanent residents (2011 census), [1] in the plain of Arta and is about 6 km from the city.

According to the Kapodistrias Plan, the Kirkizates were until the end of 2010, a municipal district of the newly established Municipality of Filothei, based in Chalkiades. Based on the new administrative division provided for in the Kallikrates Plan, the Kirkizates joined the Municipality of Arta. [2] The Kirkizates together with the settlement Plisioi constitute the local community of Kirkizata with a total population of 828 inhabitants.

Agios Nikolaos Church, Kirkizates, Arta

History

The first source to inform us of the existence of the village is the archives of Venice, [3] in which we learn that in 1697, the Kirkizates, along with many other villages in Arta, paid tribute to the Venetian administration in exchange for protection from them. pirate raids.

According to the work of Konstantinos Diamantis entitled "Arta and its surroundings during the times of the revolution", the Kirkizates were a settlement with 28 families during the period when the Greek Revolution of 1821 broke out. [4]

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 70 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 Kirkizates were part of the Kambos section. [5]

The Kirkizates and the neighboring villages on a map of 1887.

In the "Essay on the History of Arta & Preveza" (published in 1884) by Serafeim Xenopoulos, Metropolitan of Arta, reference is made to the Kirkizates. According to this source, at the time of the visit of the Metropolitan of Arta, about 25 families lived in the village. The inhabitants of the church were in the church of Agios Nikolaos. Near this church there was the Byzantine church of Agios Nikolaos of Rodia, in which 1 pastor officiated. The Metropolitan of Arta also mentions that in the village there was a school where a teacher taught and 30 students from Kirkizates and Plisios attended. [6]

An equally important source is the Ottoman census of 1895 (Salnames of Ioannina for the financial year 1311 [1895], seventh edition). [7] 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 Kaza Lourou, who was in the santzaki of Preveza, which in turn belonged to the vilayet of Ioannina. According to this census, 23 families (khanedes) with a total population of 143 people (69 men, 75 women) lived in Kirkizates.

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 Plisioi, Kirkizates, Gavria, Psathotopi, Mytikas, Aneza, Kalogeriko, Vigla, Rachi, Kalokatos, Zygmata, Keramates, Kalomodia, Agia Paraskevi, Kostakioi, Akropotamia, Neochori, Anthotopos, Chalkiades, Rokka, Agios Spyridonas, Eleftherochori, Kampi and the city of Philippi. [8] Finally, with the mediation of European powers and Russia, on September 20, hostilities ceased and peace was signed.

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

In 1910, the Diocese of Nicopolis and Preveza published the census data for the same year throughout the ecclesiastical district and informed us that Kirkizates belonged to the Louros department and the village was inhabited by 57 people. [9]

Location and access

The village is adjacent to the villages of Kostakios, Plisioi, Chalkiades and Kalovato
Sport

The football team of the village is AE Kirkizaton-Pliasi. [10]

References

External links

Municipality of Arta
Regional Unit of Arta

Settlements of the Municipality of Arta

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.
Arta and its surroundings during the revolution, Skoufas Magazine / Year 5/1960 - Volume II p.266
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]
EPS Arta teams. [2] Archived 2015-09-30 on Wayback Machine.

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