Kostakioi, Arta

Kostakioi (Κωστακιοί) Arta

Kostakioi is a village in the Municipality of Arta with 2036 permanent residents (2011 census), [1] in the plain of Arta and is about 3 km from the city.

According to the Kapodistrias Plan, the Kostakios joined the Municipality of Arta, where they remained after the new administrative division provided by the Kallikratis Plan. [2] The Kostakios together with the settlements of Syggouneika and Thanasaika constitute the local community of Kostakia with a total population of 2,133 inhabitants. [3] [4]
History
Ancient times

The Kostakioi together with the rest of the villages of the plain are located in a location which in ancient times was inhabited by the Dryopes, a sectarian tribe, who were expelled in 625 BC. by the Corinthians. Archaeological excavations have confirmed the existence of settlements in the surrounding area. Excavations at the Palaiokklisi Kostakion site have uncovered a mosaic floor from the Roman period. [5] [6] [7]
17th - 19th century

The first source that informs us of the existence of the village is a bibliographic note in which reference is made to the monk Eugenios from Kostakios, who in October 1670 went to the monastery of Koronisia and built the cells of the monastery and gathered the monks. [8]

According to Venetian records, in 1697, the Costacians, along with many other villages in Arta, paid tribute to the Venetian administration in exchange for protection from pirate raids. Typical is the example of the Mani pirate Liberakis Gerakaris, who in 1696 plundered the city of Arta and the villages of Kampochoria. The people of Artina sent a letter to the Doge of Venice informing him of the invasion of Gerakaris and among those who signed the letter was the priest of Kostaki, Dimitrios. [9]

The British diplomat and writer William Turner passed through the Costa Ricans in 1813 and tells us that about 40 houses in the village were cared for with elegant gardens and courtyards. His village was very reminiscent of the villages of the English countryside and he says he met women working and children playing outside the houses while at the same time informing us about the beautiful church that existed in Kostakios. [10]

According to the work of Spyridon Aravantinos, "History of Ali Pasha of Tepelenlis", the Kostakis 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 environs during the times of the revolution ", the Kostakios were an important settlement with 90 families during the period when the Greek Revolution of 1821 broke out. [11] [12]

Panagiotis Aravantinos in his work "Chronography of Epirus" informs us that, based on the list of the 1845 census, the Kostakios, in terms of ownership, belonged to the category "muatzeli" and lived in the village 46 Christian families. [13] The report of the Russian Sub-Consulate of Arta, in 1877, informs us that 117 Christian families lived in Kostakios and the village was owned by K. Karapanos. [14]

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 400 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 Kostakios were part of the Kampos section. [15]
The Kostakios 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 the Kostakios. According to this source, at the time of the visit of the Metropolitan of Arta, about 80 families lived in the village. The inhabitants of the church were in the church of Agios Nikolaos Kirkizaton, in the metochi of Panagia Portaitissa of Iveron, in the church of Agios Georgios and in the chapel of Agia Varvara. Xenopoulos also informs us that a resident of Kostakia, Christakis Zygouris, was the head of the Kambos department in 1853. The Metropolitan of Arta also mentions that there was a mutual school in the village where a teacher taught and 120 students studied history, geography. and religious. Outside the village there was a small field, which was owned by the Diocese of Arta. [16]

An equally important source is the Ottoman census of 1895 (Salnames of Ioannina for the financial year 1311 [1895], seventh edition). [17] 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, 56 families lived in Kostakios with a total population of 283 people (143 men, 40 women).

During the unfortunate Greek-Turkish war of 1897, the village was temporarily liberated. According to the "History of the Greek Nation", the Greek army had liberated the villages of Kostakioi, Gavria, Psathotopi, Mytikas, Aneza, Kalogeriko, Vigla, Rachi, Kalovatos, Plisioli, Zargaki, Kirkizates, until the evening of April 23, 1897. Kalomodia, Agia Paraskevi, Arta, Keramates, Akropotamia, Neochori, Anthotopos, Chalkiades, Rokka, Agios Spyridonas, Eleftherochori, Kampi and the city of Philippi. [18] Finally, with the mediation of European forces and Russia, on September 20, hostilities ceased and peace was signed.

The final liberation of Kostakia took place between 6 and 9 October 1912, when the first Greek battalions crossed the bridge of Arta and at 2 noon repulsed the Turks and established themselves in the village. 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 that took place in the same year throughout the ecclesiastical district and informs us that the Kostakians belonged to the Louros department and the village was inhabited by 341 people. [19]

Location and access

The village is adjacent to the villages: Gavria, Plisioi, Keramates and is a few kilometers away from the facilities of the schools of the TEI of Epirus. [20] It is connected by road to Arta via the Arta-Koronisias Provincial Road. The village is served by the lines Arta - Vigla, Arta - Mytika, Arta - Koronisia and Peta - Aneza of the Urban KTEL of Arta. [21]

Sport

Amvrakia Kostakion and Zeus Kostakion are the football teams of the village. [22]
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
Recognition of the settlement of Thanasaika and its annexation to the community of Kostakia. [1] [dead link]
Recognition of the settlement of Syggouneika and its annexation to the community of Kostakia. [2] [dead link]
Regarding the designation as historic preserved monuments and archeological sites, a paved floor in the Old Chapel of the Kostakia community, here is the standard agricultural cultivation of the Artis Agricultural Service. [3]
Ancient Times, Prefecture of Arta
In 625 BC. The Corinthians, led by Gorgos, son of Kypsellos, the tyrant of Corinth, established a colony on the banks of the river Arachthos after expelling the local Dryopes. [4]
"In that year, by Christon Aho [1670], he says, in the month of October Eugene, a monk from Costakeus, came to the monastery in Karakonissaian and erected it, and built the cells and assembled them," wrote the monks and hieromonks. Jeremiah I, about the monastery of Korakonisia, Zakythinos D., Yearbook of the Byzantine Society. Studies, vol. 13, 1937. [5] [dead link]
Arta in the archives of Venice, magazine "Skoufas" of Arta, issues of 1955-56.
«After riding two miles on this, we came to another village named Kustakyuse, which was the cleanest, the prettiest, and may I not say, the most English looking, that I had seen since I left my country. The houses, (about forty in number) were of a good size and neatly whitewashed, each with a small fenced garden, where grapes, tomatas, peaches, ecc, grew in great abundance. The women were sittng at work, and the children playing before the door. The church was pretty, and as the bells were ringing, (a rare sound in Turkey where they are forbidden) when I passed through, every thing seemed to conspire to give me ideas of cheerfiilness. ”, Journal of a Tour in the Levant, William Turner, 1820, p.112. [6]
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 salamen of 1895, p.66, 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 [7]
Driving kilometers between cities, villages, countries
Urban KTEL Routes

EPS Arta Teams. [8] Archived 2015-09-30 on Wayback Machine.

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