Korfovouni, Arta

Korfovouni (Κορφοβούνι) Arta

Korfovouni Arta is a semi-mountainous village of the Municipal Unit of Vlacherna of the Municipality of Arta with a population of 648 permanent residents (2011 census). The village is located at an altitude of 571 meters and is about 14 kilometers from the city of Arta. [1] [2] [3]

According to the Kapodistrias Plan, the village of Korfovouni existed until the end of 2010, a local community of the Municipality of Vlacherna and consisted of the settlements: Korfovouni (center), Elatos, Romania, Daphne, Dryona. The Municipality of Vlacherna was based in Grammenitsa. Based on the new administrative division provided by the Kallikratis Plan, the local community of Korfovouni has joined and belongs to the new, enlarged Municipality of Arta. [4] Korfovouni together with Daphne, Romania, Dryona and Elatos constitute the Local Community of Korfovouni with a total population of 648 inhabitants.

Etymology

The original name of the village was "Brenista" or Bredista or Prenista or Prenista. 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 brьnije, which means "clay". and indicates a muddy place. [5]
History

One of the first sources that informs us of the existence of the village is the "Sequence of St. Theodora", a work of the monk Job, biographer of the Saint, who lived in the middle of the 17th century. According to the monk, St. Theodora of Arta roamed the area of ​​Tzoumerka for five years with her eldest son Nikiforos Komninos Doukas and lived as a simple villager from the goods offered to her by nature. In this situation, while collecting greens, the priest of the village of Brenista found her. [6]

Equally important is the archives of Venice. From the end of the 17th century, the Venetians began to collaborate with various adventurous groups of rioters, mainly Greeks from Kefalonia and Ithaca, who looted the rich areas of Arta. The Venetians, on the one hand, aimed to create problems for the Turks and, on the other hand, to push the inhabitants of the rural areas to seek protection from banditry by paying a considerable sum of money. [7] [8]

Characteristic is the example of the Mani pirate Liberakis Gerakaris, who in 1696 looted the city of Arta and the surrounding villages and stole about 50,000 reais, which is a huge amount for that time, but it also testifies to the wealth of the area. The Artinians sent a letter to the Doge of Venice informing him of the raid, and the Venetians captured Gerakaris and imprisoned him in Brescia, Italy, where he died. [9] [10]

So according to the Venetian archives, we know that in 1695, at a time when the Doge of Venice was Sylvester Valiero, Brenista, along with many other villages in Arta, paid tribute to the Venetian administration in exchange for protection from raids. of pirates. The inhabitants of the villages of Arta paid a total of 1,500 Spanish rials a year (1 rial was equivalent to 9 εν Venetian pounds). This allows us to conclude that the village was inhabited many years before 1695. [11] [12]

Panagiotis Aravantinos in his work "Chronography of Epirus" informs us that, based on the list of the census of 1845, Korfovouni was a privately owned village, belonged to the department of Ioannina and was inhabited by 26 Christian families. [13] 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 450 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. Korfovouni was part of the Tzoumerka section. [14]

In "Essay on the History of Arta & Preveza" (published in 1884) by Serafeim Xenopoulos, Metropolitan of Arta, reference is made to Korfovouni. According to this source, Korfovouni was one of the villages of Tzoumerka with 75 families and belonged administratively and ecclesiastically to Preveza. The villagers were mainly farmers and lumberjacks and were worshiped in the church of St. George, where two priests officiated. [15]

An equally important source is the 1895 Ottoman census published under the title “Bin üc yüz on bir sene-i maliyesine mahsus Yanya salnamesi. Yedinci defa olarak ”(Salnames Ioannina for the financial year 1311, seventh edition). 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, 63 families (Hanedes) with a total population of 200 people (97 men, 103 women) lived in Korfovouni. [16]
Demographics

Today, the population of the homonymous Korfovouni settlement (center) amounts to 158 permanent residents (2011 census), [17] showing a decrease compared to the 2001 census, where the population was 291 inhabitants. [18]

Population fluctuations are shown in the table below. [19]
Community structures, education and culture

The patron saint of the village, Agios Georgios, celebrates on April 23 and depending on Easter. The church of Agios Nikolaos and Agia Theodora celebrates on December 6 and March 11 respectively. There are beautiful chapels such as those of Prophet Elias, Agios Christoforos and Agios Athanasios, while in the parish of Dryona with the church of the Holy Apostles Peter & Paul, which celebrates every year on June 29, a local traditional festival takes place. In the summer of August 15, the new Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, built on the site of the old one, celebrates, while on August 16, a dance is set up in the main square of the village.

Production and Employment

Most of the villagers are farmers with olive groves in the wider area where corn and clover are grown. The village is also based on animal husbandry with the breeding of cows and some sheep and goats. Lake Pournari is suitable for the development of the area due to the possibility of fishing and agritourism as well as the extraction from the mountain of the most famous Korfovouni stone throughout Greece.

References

Greek census 2011. [1]
Driving kilometers between cities, villages, countries
Search altitude from address to map.
Administrative division of Arta with the Kallikratis Plan
“Brenista ON, Kr. Philippias (Lex.) Brentista nach A. Gehört vielleicht zur Sippe von abg. brьnije · πηλός, von der oben S. 26 unter Βρενῖκον die Rede war. Hilferding Ι 289 geht aus von Brentista und denkt an ein mir unwahrscheinliches slav. * bredišče. ”, Die Slaven in Griechenland, Max Vasmer, Berlin, Prussian Academy of Sciences, 1941.
"And when she came to the wilderness at the border of Prenasta, she wished, by chance, one day out of the woods, and by the will of God, a priest from the same Presence saw her, a pious and virtuous man." Theodora of the Queen, sung on March 1, composed by Job Monk of the Member, p.36.
Arta in the archives of Venice, magazine "Skoufas" of Arta, issues of 1955-56.
Vetsios, Eleftherios L, The diplomatic and economic presence of the Venetians in the region of Arta during the 18th century, Thessaloniki, 2007, A.S.V. , P.T.M., p.866, 7 Settembre 1686.
The French consulate in Arta (1702-1789), SIOROKAS A. GEORGIOS, Ed. IMIAX (FOUNDATION OF MEMBERS OF THE IONIAN AND INSTRUMENT SPACE), December 1981.
Essay on the History of Arta and Preveza (published in 1884), Seraphim Xenopoulos, Letter from the inhabitants of Arta to the commander of the Venetians, pp.347-350 ..
Doge of Venice from 1284 to 1797
A.S.V., Senate, Rettori, p.130, 20 Settembre 1695.
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.
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), p.16". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 6, 2016.
The Turkish statistics of Epirus in the salmon of 1895, M. Kokolakis
Greek census 2011
Population Census of March 18, 2001, Hellenic Statistical Authority (EL.STAT.). [2] Archived 2015-06-28 on Wayback Machine.

"Archive of the National Statistical Service of Greece - Ε.Σ.Υ.Ε". Archived from the original on July 18, 2012. Retrieved September 27, 2017.

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