Kipoureio Explained

Kipoureio or Kipourio is a village and a community of the Grevena municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was a part of the municipality of Gorgiani, of which it was a municipal district and the seat.^[1] The 2021 census recorded 125 residents in the village. The community of Kipoureio covers an area of 40.285 km².^[2]

In the early nineteenth century, traveller William Martin Leake wrote Kipoureio was a Vlach village. According to the statistics of Vasil Kanchov ("Macedonia, Ethnography and Statistics"), 600 Greek Christians lived in the village in 1900.^[3] Historian Nicholas Hammond described Kipoureio as a Vlach village during his travels in the area during the interwar period.^[4] Historian Asterios Koukoudis states Kipoureio possibly experienced a process of assimilation, similar to the village of Mikrolivado.^[5]

See also

• List of settlements in the Grevena regional unit

References

1. Web site: ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities. el. Government Gazette.
2. Web site: Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation) . National Statistical Service of Greece . el . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf . 2015-09-21.
3. [Vasil Kanchov|Kanchov, Vasil]
4. Book: Hammond, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière. Epirus: the Geography, the Ancient Remains, the History and Topography of Epirus and Adjacent Areas. 1967. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 267.
5. Book: Koukoudis, Asterios. The Vlachs: Metropolis and Diaspora. 2003. Zitros Publications. 9789607760869. 196.