Administrative Region : Thessaly
Regional unit : Karditsa
Mavrommati (Μαυρομμάτι) Karditsa
Mavrommati is a large semi-mountainous settlement and one of the historic villages of N. Karditsa; it is located at the foot of the historic Agrafa 27 km northwest of Karditsa and 3 km east of Mouzaki on the right of the river Pamisos (Bliooutri) at an altitude of 160. According to tradition, the fighter of 1821 George Karaiskakis was born in a cave near the monastery of Agios Georgios.
Historical data
Mavrommati is a creation of the Byzantine era (1100 - 1200) approximately, as it is mentioned in the first Ottoman census of 1454/1455. According to the census of 1454-55 the area of Mavrommati consisted of two timars: the first with an annual The income of 1,215 whites belonged to the Ortou and Sani brothers, who used it indivisibly. [citation needed] 31 families and 5 widows lived in it, cultivating cereals, flax, vines, and feeding sheep and pigs. The second timar with an annual income of 1014 white, belonged to Gionis [= Giannis] Mavromatis. In this timar, which had been granted by Theodoros Mavromatis, 28 families and 1 (one) widow lived. Its inhabitants also cultivated cereals, vineyards and fed sheep, pigs and bees. Over the years, these two timars - settlements were united and formed a settlement Mavrommati, as we know it today. According to the French consul in Ioannina, Puckeville, Mavrommati in 1800 had 100 families with about 400 inhabitants. In the period 1812-1818, Veli Pasha had a small farm here, cultivated by 48 couples, and with an annual income together with the 4 watermills, 35,000 grosis.
In August 1881, together with the whole area of N. Karditsa, it was liberated and became part of the Greek state. Then the Municipality of Ithomis was founded based in Fanari, which included 14 other settlements, among them Mavrommati with 724 inhabitants at that time. With the D / YZ law of 1912, the Municipality of Ithomis was abolished and Mavrommati became an independent community, together with the settlement of Kiourka (approximately 70 inhabitants) according to the Decree of 29.8.1912, a total of 800 inhabitants. [1] After the liberation, the population began to grow rapidly. In 1881 (850 inhabitants), in 1889 (950) and in 1907 (1,862) together with the 70 inhabitants of the now disbanded Kiourka settlement.
Today the population of the village, together with the settlement "Karaiskaki" located between Mavrommati - Mouzaki is 2,000, and in winter exceeds 2,500 due to the fact that Mavrommati has long been used by farmers in the mountain villages of Agrafa as a winter. Their inhabitants are mainly engaged in the cultivation of cotton, cereals, alfalfa, the breeding of sheep and goats, cows, and in the processing of wood with many handicrafts of this branch.
Population
The following is the course of the population according to the censuses:
Census 1881 1889 1896 1907 1920 1928 1940 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 1991 2001 2011
Population 724 [2] 848 [3] 952 [4] 1,136 [5] 1,199 [6] 1,468 [7] 1,791 [7] 1,990 [7] 2,065 [7] 1,689 [7] 1,623 [7] 1,426 [7] 1,735 1,115
Activities
In Mavrommati since 1927 there is a cultural association with the name Cultural Association of Mavrommati "O KARAISKAKIS", which is active in many cultural events in the village. There is also an Athletic Association "O KARAISKAKIS" and a livestock association. The cultural association of the village maintains with its own expenses a rich museum of folklore objects, and rare exhibits concerning G. Karaiskakis. It also has an organized blood bank. In Mavrommati, there is a six-grade primary school and a two-seat kindergarten.
Sights and retrospectives
The interest of the visitors is attracted by the remarkable Monastery of Agios Georgios (Karaiskaki υρο Mavrommatiou, located 3 km from the village and its approach is by an asphalt road. The Monastery was one of the most important in the years of Ottoman rule, but also in later years In this Monastery with the Athonite type catholic lived for a while as a cleaner (Neokora - Kalogria) and Zoe Dimitski, the mother of G. Karaiskakis. The foundation of the monastery is placed in 1550, while its frescoes date to 1657. icons of the iconostasis bear the dates 1590 and 1602. In the village there are also the churches: Ag. Ioannis (the oldest), Agios Nikolaos 1887, Agios Anargyros, Agios Nikolaos from Vounainios (Neos), St. Voukolou, Bishop of Smyrna, St. Stephen in the settlement of G. Karaiskaki, the beautiful chapel of St. Marina in the East of the village at a distance of 3 km and in the hills of the mountain the renovated chapel of St. Catherine, and high on the top dominates the small church of Ai-Lia. Old stone houses and traditional fountains adorn the historic village. In the square with the age-old plane trees stands the imposing bronze equestrian statue of G. Karaiskakis, weighing 2.5 tons by the work of the academic sculptor Giannis Pappas, which was erected there in the year 1990 after a pan-Hellenic fundraiser. The visitor can visit in Mavrommati the house where Karaiskakis lived during his childhood, the folklore museum, and the museum of folk art of Mrs. Melpomeni Tziouvara.
Cultural events
Opportunity for religious pilgrimage of the faithful are the two festivals organized by the cultural association of the village "O KARAISKAKIS", on May 9 (St. Nicholas the Younger from the Mountains, or Marouli as it is known in the area) and on July 16 and 17 Agia Marina in the homonymous church. In both of these religious festivals, the association offers all pilgrims free food for about 2,000 people. Every year, the village association on the day of St. George's Day in honor of G. Karaiskakis organizes with the financial support of the Municipality the leading cultural events of the Municipality "KARAISKAKIA" with a presentation of traditional dances from various parts of Greece. In the last week of June, the cultural association participates and organizes here in the village, the big and now well-known cultural events "KARAISKAKEIA" that are held at the Prefectural level by the Association of Cultural Associations of Karditsa prefecture with the participation of dance classes not only from Greece but also from abroad. These events last a week. Mavrommati is also the birthplace of another pioneer: Konstantinos Katsogiannou, one of the first self-taught wind turbines in Europe.
References
Government Gazette 261/1912
Greek census of Thessaly-Arta 1881, p. 34
Greek census 1889, p. 156
Greek census 1896, p. 164
Greek census 1907, p. 425
Greek census 1920, p. 25 'Table IV
Michael Stamatelatos - Fotini Vamba-Stamatelatou, Abbreviated Geographical Dictionary of Greece, Hermes, Athens 2001, p. 476.
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