Malakasi Explained

Malakasi
Name Local:Μαλακάσι
Type:municipal unit
Periph:Thessaly
Periphunit:Trikala
Pop Municunit:612
Pop Community:134
Population As Of:2021
Area Municunit:157.5
Coordinates:39.8°N 41°W
Licence:ΤΚ

Malakasi (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Μαλακάσι) is a village and a former municipality in the Trikala regional unit, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Meteora, of which it is a municipal unit.[1] The municipal unit has an area of 157.534 km2.[2] Population 612 (2021). The seat of the municipality was in Panagia.

Municipal unit

The municipal unit of Malakasi includes the settlements of Korydallos, Malakasi, Panagia, Pefki and Trygona.

Geography

The village is part of the wider Zagori region,[3] between Epirus and Thessaly.

History

The village takes its name from the Malakasii, an Albanian tribe or clan that moved to the area from central Albania in the 14th century.[4] The name most probably refers to the Albanian Malakasii tribe's region of origin in the plain of Mallakastër in southern Albania.

Ottoman period

During the Ottoman period, Epirus and Aetolia-Acarnania were divided into five armatolikia: Malakasi, Tzoumerka, Xeromero, Lidorikion, and Venetiko.[5] [6]

In May 1871, Malakasi was the seat of the Malakasi nahiye of the Ioannina kaza.[7]

Demographics

The village is inhabited by "Vlachs" (Βλαχι),[8] who are called Malakasi and inhabit the villages from Malakasi to Gardiki.[9]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ΦΕΚ A 87/2010, Kallikratis reform law text. el. Government Gazette.
  2. Web site: Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation) . National Statistical Service of Greece . el . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf . 2015-09-21 .
  3. Book: Dionysios A. Zakythēnos. The Making of Modern Greece: From Byzantium to Independence. 1976. Rowman and Littlefield. 978-0-87471-796-9.
  4. Book: Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond. Migrations and invasions in Greece and adjacent areas. 1976. Noyes Press. 978-0-8155-5047-1. 39–42.
  5. Book: Apostolos Euangelou Vakalopoulos. The Greek Nation, 1453-1669: The Cultural and Economic Background of Modern Greek Society. 1976. Rutgers University Press. 978-0-8135-0810-8.
  6. Book: Миодраг Стојановић. Хајдуци и клефти у народном песништву. 1984. Српска академија наука и уметности, Балканолошки институт. 41.
  7. Book: Константин Леонтьев. Анатолий Васильевич Торкунов. Дипломатические донесения, письма, записки, отчеты 1865-1872. 2003. РОССПЭН. 319. 9785824303766 .
  8. Book: Tom Winnifrith. The Vlachs: the history of a Balkan people. 1987. Duckworth. 978-0-7156-2135-6.
  9. Book: Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond. Epirus: the Geography, the Ancient Remains, the History and Topography of Epirus and Adjacent Areas. 1967. Clarendon P..