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Plikati
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| Country: | Greece |
| Region: | Epirus |
| Regional unit: | Ioannina |
| Municipality: | Konitsa |
| Municipal unit: | Mastorochoria |
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| - Population: | 150 |
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| Time zone: | EET/EEST (UTC+2/3) |
| Elevation (center): | 880 m (2,887 ft) |
| Auto: | ΙΝ |
Plikati (Greek: Πληκάτι, Albanian: Pelekat) a village in the Ioannina regional unit in Greece and the municipal unit of Mastorochoria. It is one of the northernmost villages in Epirus. In 2001 its population was 150. The GR-20 (Ioannina - Konitsa - Kozani), the old road is approximately 2 km northwest.
The village is elevated at 1,240 m on the foot of Grammos mountains. The boundary with the Kastoria Prefecture is to the north and the border with Albania to the west.
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Plikati has traditionally been populated by an exclusively Arvanite population, and is the only Albanian speaking village in Ioannina prefecture.
| Year | Population |
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| 1981 | 156 |
| 1991 | 133 |
| 2001 | 150 |
Plikati is located SSW of Kastoria, WSW of Kozani, north or Ioannina and Konitsa and 12 km north of Pyrsogianni. The GR-20 (Kozani - Konitsa - Ioanina) is 16 km south.
Much of the area around Kastania are forested, farmlands are situated within the village.
Kastania is situated on a mountain slope of one of the mountains of the Northern Pindus mountains and overlooks the Arena and Kiafos mountains and the Sarantaporos.
The origin of the name of the settlement believed that the word Pelekati (Πελεκάτι) and presumed to have a plan with the chopping of rocks. The running of the area's residents dates back to older times. In the mid-19th century, due to the overpopulation and a narrow economic growth, the main part of the area's population bought from a bey of Florina, a hectare, as a result in 1844, they settled and ran two villages Belkameni (Μπελκαμένη, now Drossopigi (Δροσοπηγή)) and Neg(k)ovani (Νεγκοβάνη, now Flambouro (Φλάμπουρο)). Other settled as east as Kazaklar (Καζακλάρ) older name of Ampelona, now a municipality in the Larissa Prefecture in Thessaly.
After World War II and the Greek Civil War, its buildings were rebuilt. Once a village of around 200 to 300, its population loss began when emigration occurred at a higher rate until 1981 through to 1991, the population has been declining slowly but lost by half between 1991 and 2001. Kastania became connected with asphalt in the 1980s and the 1990s. more pavement was available in recent years. Electricity, radio and automobiles were introduced in the mid-20th century, television in the late-20th century and computer and internet at the turn of the millennium. In the late-1990s, the ex-community (now a municipal district) joined to become the newly formed municipality of Mastorohori.
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