Iliochori

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Coordinates: 39°58′37″N, 20°54′37″E Iliochori (Greek, Modern: Ηλιοχώρι, Ancient/Katharevousa: -ον meaning "town of the sun") is a village located in the municipality of Tymfi in the northcentral part of the Ioannina prefecture. Until 1926, it was known as Dobrinovo.

According to a local legend, the town was first founded as Rasciana, located on the river of the same name; that site, however, was abandoned because of a lack of drinking water, and the inhabitants scattered to found Iliochori and the nearby town of Laista.^{[citation needed]}

Iliochori was traditionally an agricultural town, with husbandry and cultivation of barley and vetch being among its primary areas of economic activity. Viticulture was also prominent, and the town produced a wine, Dobrovino, that gave it its original name. Caravans leaving from Iliochori carried products from the region to the Balkans for trade.

The town suffered severe damage in both World War II and the Greek Civil War, and lost a large portion of its population during the 1940s as a result.

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[edit] History

According to the legend the town be constructed in locality "Rasciana`" in the vicinity of the homonym river. But because of the drink water lack the inhabitants abandoned that place and reconstructed the new town of Iliochori where it is found currently. But not all the inhabitants moved to Iliochori, some of them settled to Laista (the town that tos be distant 14 km) that in this period Lisinitza was called. From 1463 until 1912, Iliochori was under the dominion of the Turks, that had granted to all the towns of Zagoria a governmental autonomy with the payment of taxes. The town has rich the maximum development between 1870 and 1900. From 1916 the population came decimated so-called Asian flu. The inhabitants of Iliochori lived of breeding of sheep, cows, of agriculture, cultivating grain, barley and vetch. They dedicated great cures also to the viticulture, producing a good wine (the name of the Dobrinovo town derives from the good wine that was produced). But they were also of the traders, in spring left in caravan with mules and horses, carrying of the goods that they above all sold in the countries of the Balkans, where many had constructed true and own economic fortunes. They come back to Iliochori at the end of autumn to spend the winter with the own families. In the winter months the shepherds dedicated to the handicraft, forming itineranti corporations of masons and sculptors in wood that travelling for the Balkans selling their goods. Until 1914 in Iliochori there was the school of the chassis situated over the road of the currently city hall where the girls learned to weave. The building belong to the Gianussi family that had donated it to the city cuncil; beyond to the webbing school there were the elementary school, the primary and secondary schools that were found in the same building. In these schools there were teachers females for the girls and teachers males for the boys. In 1912 the building this building was burnt and in 1924 inizio' its reconstruction, finished in 1927; first master was Papasisis. After the 1920 the houses inhabited were 160, during the second world war the Germans are arrived to Iliochori in 1943 and have burnt great part of the houses of the town. In 1926 the town change name from Dobrinovo was assigned the name to it of Iliochori that in Greek means "Town of the Sun". In 1944 another battalion of German step from the town, searching carefully without damage it. The town has endured large damages during the civil war from 1946 to 1949 and many inhabitants emigrated.