Chrysodouli
Chrysodouli | |
|---|---|
Settlement | |
  Chrysodouli Location within Greece | |
| Coordinates: 39°55′59″N 20°21′56″E / 39.93306°N 20.36556°E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | Epirus |
| Regional unit | Ioannina |
| Municipality | Pogoni |
| Municipal unit | Delvinaki |
| Community | Mavropoulo |
| Elevation | 764 m (2,507 ft) |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
• Total | 16 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Chrysodouli (Greek: Χρυσόδουλη) is a settlement in Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. It is part of the community of Mavropoulo. Culturally, the village of Chrysodouli is part of Dropull, an area which also extends into Albania.[2] The village in the modern period is also placed as being part of Upper Pogoni.[3]
Name
The toponym has two possible derivations. The first is from the personal name Chrysodouli, a compound formation from the name Chrysa, also Chryso, and the noun douli.[4] This name is derived from the Greek word chrysos 'gold' and compound names with the term existed in ancient and medieval periods.[4]
The second stems from the personal name Christodouli, also Christodoulos.[4] The form underwent the elimination of the unstressed i, (hrstođul) and the evolution of the consonant of the cluster hrst into hst with the elimination of the intersymphonic r (hstođul), and the final evolution of st into s (hsođul).[4] This form, which refers to the word gold, eventually became Chrysodouli.[4] Linguist Kostas Oikonomou states that the circumstances which resulted in the toponym being formed are unknown.[4]
Demographics
Under Ottoman rule the population of Chrysodouli were mostly Muslim Albanians and spoke Albanian, whom local Greeks called "Turks".[5][3] The term "Turk" was used as a generic term for Muslims during the Ottoman period.[3][6] In 1913 some Muslim Albanians left the village and others in the period of the Greek–Turkish population exchange (1923).[3] The Albanian government described Greek authorities had pressured some Muslim Albanians to leave the village for Turkey, although a League of Nations commission in 1924 found no examples in Chrysodouli involving such methods.[7] A Muslim Roma community resided in the village who spoke Romani and were called Tourkogiftoi 'Turkish gypsies' by local Greeks.[8][9] Following the Balkan Wars (1912–1913) the Muslim Roma left Chrysodouli during 1915–1925 and resettled in the new village of Parakalamos.[8][9]
People from several areas moved into Chrysodouli, some were Aromanians.[3] In the early 21st century, the inhabitants are Greeks.[3] Social relations between the population of Chrysodouli with other neighbouring villages in the modern period remain distant due to the legacy of being a former Muslim village.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
- ↑ Alexakis, Eleftherios P. (2017). Greek Ethnography, Ethnographie Grecque. Editions Herodotos. p. 305. ISBN 9789604851980. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 January 2026.
The villages of Western Pogoni – Chrysodouli, Zavrocho, Mavropoulo, Aghia Marina, Arinista (Ktismata), Katouna (Neochori), Kakavi – belong to the cultural area of Deropolis, part of which nowadays lies in Albania.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Green, Sarah (2005). Notes from the Balkans: Locating Marginality and Ambiguity on the Greek–Albanian Border. Princeton University Press. p. 44. ISBN 9781400884353.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Oikonomou, Kostas E. (2002). Τα οικωνύμια του νομού Ιωαννίνων. Γλωσσολογική εξέταση [The oikonyms of the prefecture of Ioannina. A linguistic examination] (PDF) (in Greek). Nomarchiaki Aftodioikisi Ioanninon. p. 303. ISBN 9789608316010. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 November 2024.
- ↑ Green, Sarah; King, Geoffrey (2001). "Seeing what you know: Changing constructions and perceptions of landscape in Epirus, Northwestern Greece, 1945 and 1990". History and Anthropology. 12 (3): 271.
On closer investigation, it turned out that Chrisodouli had been inhabited by Muslim Albanians during the Ottoman period (locally referred to as "Turks").
- ↑ Theodosiou 2007, p. 169. "The term "Turkish" is being used very loosely here, as people in the area use it. It does not imply that the residents were ethnically "Turkish" —most often in fact, they were Albanian speaking Muslims (Green 2005: 56–57). What is usually meant by saying a village used to be "Turkish" is that the residents were mainly Muslim or had converted to Islam and they generally spoke a language other than Greek."
- ↑ Dorlhiac, Renaud (2023). "Muslims of Epirus, Muslims of Empire? The Cham Issue in Relation to Albanian, Greek and Turkish National Projects (1908–25)". In Horel, Catherine; Severin-Barboutie, Bettina (eds.). Population Displacements and Multiple Mobilities in the Late Ottoman Empire. Brill. p. 73. ISBN 9789004543690.
- 1 2 Theodosiou, Aspasia (2007). "Disorienting Rhythms: Gypsyness, "Authenticity" and Place on the Greek–Albanian Border". History and Anthropology. 18 (2): 155.
- 1 2 Maher, Nicola (2019). The Crying Clarinet: Emotion and Music in Parakalamos (PDF) (PhD thesis). Cardiff University. p. 6. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 March 2026. Retrieved 26 March 2026.