Magouliana

Magouliana Μαγούλιανα
Location
Magouliana
Coordinates	37°41′N 22°8′E / 37.683°N 22.133°E / 37.683; 22.133Coordinates: 37°41′N 22°8′E / 37.683°N 22.133°E / 37.683; 22.133
Government
Country:	Greece
Administrative region:	Peloponnese
Regional unit:	Arcadia
Municipality:	Gortynia
Municipal unit:	Vytina
Population statistics (as of 2001)[1]
Community
- Population:	256
Other
Time zone:	EET/EEST (UTC+2/3)

Magouliana (Greek: Μαγούλιανα) is a mountain village and a community in the municipal unit of Vytina, Arcadia, Greece. As of 2001, it had a population of 238 for the village and 256 for the community, which includes the small village Pan. It sits at 1,365 m above sea level, under the ruined Argyrokastro Castle. Magouliana is 3 km southwest of Lasta, 5 km west of Vytina and 12 km northeast of Dimitsana.

Population

Geography and history

According to several sources, the village was founded between 1530 and 1600 by inhabitants of five settlements, Agios Athanasios (Kastro), Agios Konstantinos (Leivadi), Agios Ioannis (Kampeas), Petrovouni and Megisti or Katsipodas, fleeing from raiding Lalaioi Turks. According to Max Vasmer, the name might derive from the Slavic word Mogyljane ("hill people").^[2] The word is also related to the modern Greek μαγούλα (magoula, of Slavic^[3][4] or Albanian^[5] origin) which means hill or small mound. It was renamed to Argyrokastro in 1927,^[6] but it was renamed back to Magouliana in 1929.^[7]

People

• Fotios Chrysanthopoulos (Fotakos), first councillor for Theodoros Kolokotronis
• Ilias Mariolopoulos, nature meteorologist at the University of Athens
• Konstantinos Gontikas, politician, minister
• Dimitrios Gontikas, politician, president of the parliament
• Andrew Jarvis, Greek-American politician

References

1. ↑ De Facto Population of Greece Population and Housing Census of March 18th, 2001 (PDF 793 KB). National Statistical Service of Greece. 2003. 
2. ↑ M. Vasmer, Die Slaven in Griechenland (1941), p 155
3. ↑ Triandafillidis dictionary
4. ↑ Die Slaven in Griechenland p 170
5. ↑ Babiniotis dictionary, 2002, p 1033
6. ↑ Name changes of settlements in Greece
7. ↑ Name changes of settlements in Greece

External links

• The weather in Magouliana
• Magouliana at the GTP Travel Pages