Malakasi
{{Infobox Greek Dimos
|name = Malakasi
|name_local = Μαλακάσι
|type = municipal unit
|image_map = DE Malakasiou.svg
|map_caption = Location within the regional unit
|periph = Thessaly
|periphunit = Trikala
|municipality = Meteora
|pop_municunit = 612
|pop_community = 134
|population_as_of = 2021
|area_municunit = 157.5
|elevation =
|coordinates = {{coord|39|48|N|21|20|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|postal_code =
|area_code =
|licence = ΤΚ
|website =
|image_skyline =
|caption_skyline =
}}
Malakasi ({{langx|el|Μαλακάσι}}) is a village and a former municipality in the Trikala regional unit, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Meteora, of which it is a municipal unit.{{Cite web|url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL8-SrPzKAEPjjtIl9LGdkF53UIxsx942CdyqxSQYNuqAGCF0IfB9HI6hq6ZkZV96FIukI0UzcPsWCK0LpLhpa7rhiWB4R5ntTnoWw7U8E1Amg.|title=ΦΕΚ A 87/2010, Kallikratis reform law text|language=el|publisher=Government Gazette}} The municipal unit has an area of 157.534 km2.{{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=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |archivedate=2015-09-21 }} Population 612 (2021). The seat of the municipality was in Panagia.
Municipal unit
The municipal unit of Malakasi includes the settlements of Korydallos, Malakasi, Panagia, Pefki and Trygona.
Geography
The village is part of the wider Zagori region,{{cite book|author=Dionysios A. Zakythēnos|title=The Making of Modern Greece: From Byzantium to Independence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zoKgAAAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Rowman and Littlefield|isbn=978-0-87471-796-9}} between Epirus and Thessaly.
History
The village takes its name from the Malakasii, an Albanian tribe or clan that moved to the area from central Albania in the 14th century.{{cite book|author=Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond|title=Migrations and invasions in Greece and adjacent areas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O9saAAAAYAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Noyes Press|isbn=978-0-8155-5047-1|pages=39–42}}{{sfn|Valentini|1956|p=306}}{{sfn|Sansaridou-Hendrickx|2017|p=289}}{{sfn|Fine|1994|p=253}} The name most probably refers to the Albanian Malakasii tribe's region of origin in the plain of Mallakastër in southern Albania.{{harvnb|Valentini|1956|p=306}}
=Ottoman period=
During the Ottoman period, Epirus and Aetolia-Acarnania were divided into five armatolikia: Malakasi, Tzoumerka, Xeromero, Lidorikion, and Venetiko.{{cite book|author=Apostolos Euangelou Vakalopoulos|title=The Greek Nation, 1453-1669: The Cultural and Economic Background of Modern Greek Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HXq7AAAAIAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-0810-8}}{{cite book|author=Миодраг Стојановић|title=Хајдуци и клефти у народном песништву|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=whcMAAAAIAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Српска академија наука и уметности, Балканолошки институт|page=41}}
In May 1871, Malakasi was the seat of the Malakasi nahiye of the Ioannina kaza.{{cite book|author1=Константин Леонтьев|author2=Анатолий Васильевич Торкунов|title=Дипломатические донесения, письма, записки, отчеты 1865-1872|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HuAiAQAAIAAJ|year=2003|publisher=РОССПЭН|page=319|isbn=9785824303766 }}
Demographics
The village is inhabited by "Vlachs" (Βλαχι),{{cite book|author=Tom Winnifrith|title=The Vlachs: the history of a Balkan people|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7zVpAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Duckworth|isbn=978-0-7156-2135-6}} who are called Malakasi and inhabit the villages from Malakasi to Gardiki.{{cite book|author=Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond|title=Epirus: the Geography, the Ancient Remains, the History and Topography of Epirus and Adjacent Areas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kEFoAAAAMAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Clarendon P.}}
References
{{reflist}}
Bibliography
- {{citation | first = John Van Antwerp | last = Fine |title = The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest | publisher = University of Michigan Press | year = 1994 |isbn = 978-0-472-08260-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LvVbRrH1QBgC }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Sansaridou-Hendrickx |first1=Thekla |title=The Albanians in the Chronicle(s) of Ioannina: An Anthropological Approach |journal=Acta Patristica et Byzantina |date=2017 |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=287–306 |doi=10.1080/10226486.2010.11879131 |s2cid=163742869 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10226486.2010.11879131 }}
- {{cite book|last=Valentini|first=Giuseppe|publisher=Vallecchi|title=Il diritto delle comunità nella tradizione giuridica albanese; generalità|year=1956|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zl8oAQAAMAAJ}}
{{Meteora div}}
Category:Populated places in Trikala (regional unit)
Category:Meteora (municipality)
{{Thessaly-geo-stub}}