Koupaki, Phocis
{{Short description|Greek village}}
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|municipality = Dorida
|municunit = Vardousia
|population = 48
|population_as_of = 2021
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Koupaki or Koupakio (Greek: Κουπάκι or Κουπάκιον) is a Greek village in the municipal unit of Vardousia, in northwestern Phocis, west of the Mornos dam and 5 km from Krokyleio, the former seat of Vardousia. The population was 48 in the 2021 census.
Geography
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The village lies at over {{convert|830|m|ft}} altitude.
History
Koupaki is referred to as a distinct community for the first time around 1800 by the French Historian and traveler Charles Pouqueville,[https://ia341225.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/3/items/catalogueofprint00mocauoft/catalogueofprint00mocauoft_flippy.zip&file=0637.jpg Voyage dans la Grece, Charles Pouqueville, Paris 1820–21] who refers to the village as Copaki.
Towards the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, a large number of young men from Koupaki headed for the New World. Many of them worked in building the railway network in America.e.g. Karandreas, Ioannis (15 Jun 1894) and Koufasimes, Vasileios (1 May 1896),WORLD WAR I CIVILIAN DRAFT REGISTRATIONS, Kootenai County, Idaho - 1917-1918, http://files.usgwarchives.org/id/kootenai/military/ww1/k.txt {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219002225/http://files.usgwarchives.org/id/kootenai/military/ww1/k.txt |date=2012-02-19 }}
Book
The village is featured in the book "Better Dead Than Divorced: The Trial of Panayota" by Lukas Thanasis Konandreas which describes the murder of his father's cousin Panayota Nitsos by her abusive husband in the 1950s and her family's efforts to bring the murderers to justice.{{Cite web|url=http://betterdeadthandivorced.com/|title=Home - Better Dead Than Divorced|website=Better Dead Than Divorced|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-28}} The book won the 2015 Bronze Nonfiction Book Award.{{Cite news|url=https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/book-award-winner-better-dead-than-divorced-the-trial-of-panayota/|title=Book Award Winner: Better Dead Than Divorced: The Trial of Panayota {{!}} Nonfiction Authors Association|date=2015-08-13|work=Nonfiction Authors Association|access-date=2018-03-28|language=en-US}}
Population
{{Historical populations
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|source = Population censusesThe Population Census of Aetolia 1879 to 1981 http://68.194.165.21:8091/Aetolia/Aetolia_Census.htm{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |publisher=National Statistical Service of Greece |title=Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation) |language=el |url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |archivedate=2015-09-21 }}{{cite web | url = http://www.statistics.gr/documents/20181/1210503/resident_population_census2011rev.xls | title = Απογραφή Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2011. ΜΟΝΙΜΟΣ Πληθυσμός | publisher = Hellenic Statistical Authority | language = el }}
|1879|335
|1896|390
|1907|332
|1920|358
|1928|355
|1940|329
|1951|187
|1961|105
|1971|51
|1981|93
|2001|22
|2011|65
|2021|48
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