Oinoi, Kastoria

Oinoi (Οινόη) Kastoria

Oinoi is a village in the municipal unit of Mesopotamia, in the municipality of Kastoria in the homonymous prefecture of the region of Western Macedonia. According to official 2011 census data, Oinoi has a population of 475 inhabitants.

Geography

Oinoi is built in the northwestern part of the prefecture, at an altitude of 730 meters, 18 kilometers west of Kastoria. It is about 10 km from the Greek-Albanian border. The settlement is crossed by a tributary of Aliakmonas [2].

History

During the Ottoman period, the settlement was called Ossiani, a name that has Slavic origins and indicates the place of production of fruits [3]. Until the 1923 population exchange, the majority of the village was Ottoman, while there was a small minority of Greeks, who in 1923 numbered about 35 people. During the Macedonian Struggle, the Christians of the village remained loyal to the Ecumenical Patriarchate, while the local Ioannis Zissou was distinguished, who acted as a hoplite in the bodies of various chiefs such as Ioannis Karavitis and Pavlos Gyparis.

In 1923, 409 refugees from various parts of Pontus settled in the village. At the same time, the village was renamed Oinoi after a meeting of the inhabitants. This name was preferred by the inhabitants as it was mentioned in Oinoi tou Pontou, where a significant portion of the refugees of the settlement came from. In the late 1920s, Oinoi had a primary school and a telegraph office.

Residents of Oinoi were very active during the Occupation: specifically 50 residents of the village enlisted in ELAS, of which 4 were killed during the fighting while another 4 residents were killed as civilians. In fact, the Slavo-Macedonian communist, resistance and separatist Lazaros Adamopoulos (alternatively named Damos, Damopoulos or Grossdos), who was one of the prisoners in Akronafplia who were released from prison in early summer [1941] in 1941, came from Oinoi. In March 1943, the Italian air force bombed the settlement in retaliation for the entry of the guerrillas under George Giannoulis in Argos Orestiko. In mid-1944, ELAS guerrillas from Oinoi expressed their dissatisfaction with the, in their view, favorable treatment of the guerrilla leadership against the Slavo-Macedonian separatists.

During the first period of the Civil War, Oinoi was, along with other villages in the wider area, one of the strongholds of the anti-communist parastatal militias in the prefecture of Kastoria. By September 1947, the vast majority of the inhabitants had evacuated Oinoi and were heading to the urban centers due to the escalation of the conflict. In all, at least 53 residents of Oinoi participated in the Civil War as members of government forces (army, gendarmerie, etc.), while about ten others were members of the DSE.

In 1952, twenty Oinoi families left the settlement and settled in Platy, Florina, whose inhabitants had gone abroad during the Civil War. In 1960, the settlement was electrified, while in 1971 it was possible to develop the telephone network.

Administratively, Oinoi was originally the seat of a homonymous community in the province of Kastoria in the prefecture of Florina. Later, in 1941, it was included in the prefecture of Kastoria.
General elements

The residents of Oinoi are engaged in agricultural work such as tobacco growing, animal husbandry and cereal production. In the old days, nurseries were also thriving, while many residents were involved in the fur trade. The main church of Oinoi was built in 1932 and is dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. In the village there is a sports center, a kindergarten, a primary school, a high school and a rural doctor's office, while there are also local cultural associations.

Sport

It is also home to the Flatsa Oinois Sports Gymnastics Association, [20] which was founded in 1957 [21] and is active in the sport of football, while in the past it also had a track and field department. [22] It belongs to the power of E.P.S. Kastoria and has a presence in the championship of the 4th National. In the 1984-85 season, AGS Flatsata Oinois won the local championship for the first time and won the promotion to the National Amateur Championship, the later 4th National, where she competed for the first time in the 1985-86 season. [23] Kyriakos Karataidis, a former international footballer (and born in Oinoi), started his career with the local team.

Demography
Census 1920 1928 1940 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2001 2011
Population 824 [25] 602 [25] 990 [25] 1003 [25] 823 [25] 595 [25] 673 [25] 621 [25] 583 [25] 475 [1]

References

Census 2011, p. 51406.
I. S. Koliopoulos - I. D. Michailidis (ed.), The Refugees in Macedonia - From the tragedy to the epic, Ε.Μ.Σ. - Miletus, Athens 2009, p. 340.
I. S. Koliopoulos - I. D. Michailidis (ed.), 2009, p. 345.
I. S. Koliopoulos - I. D. Michailidis (ed.), 2009, pp. 344 - 345.
I. S. Koliopoulos - I. D. Michailidis (ed.), 2009, p. 344.
I. S. Koliopoulos - I. D. Michailidis (ed.), 2009, pp. 340 - 342.
Contemporary Encyclopedia Eleftheroudaki, fifth edition - updated with supplement by volume, volume 19, p. 17.
Raimondos Albanos, Social Conflicts and Political Behaviors in the Region of Kastoria (1922-1949), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Doctoral Thesis, Thessaloniki 2005, pp. 264 - 265.
Athanasios Kallianiotis, The Refugees in Western Macedonia (1941 - 1946), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Doctoral Thesis, Thessaloniki 2007, p. 88.
Raymond Albanos, 2005, p. 260.
Athanasios Kallianiotis, 2007, p. 424.
Raymond Albanos, 2005, p. 336.
Raymond Albanos, 2005, pp. 388, 393 - 394.
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Raymond Albanos, 2005, p. 470.
I. S. Koliopoulos - I. D. Michailidis (ed.), 2009, p. 349.
EETAA: Administrative changes.
I. S. Koliopoulos - I. D. Michailidis (ed.), 2009, pp. 348 - 349.
I. S. Koliopoulos - I. D. Michailidis (ed.), 2009, p. 346. 351.
Recording of sports clubs, official GGA page
Official Facebook page of AGS Oinois Flats
Recording of sports clubs, official GGA page
Ε.Π.Σ. Kastorias: Retrospection in the past top-sport.gr [dead link]
Georgakopoulos, Stavros (October 25, 2016). "Exclusive interview of Kyriakos Karataidis at Contra.gr: His own Olympiacos". contra.gr. Contra. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
I. S. Koliopoulos - I. D. Michailidis (ed.), 2009, p. 350.

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