Ravenia

Ravénia( _el. Ραβένια) is a village of Epirus, Greece located 26 km south of Ioannina at an altitude of 844 m. It is in the municipality of Agios Dimitrios. Ravenia is also located south of Dodoni. It is one of several villages that are called Katsaounochoria or Katsaounohoria (Κατσαουνοχώρια).

Population

History

Pre-modern era

Ravenia changed location twice. During the Byzantine Era, the settlement was in the area of "Bogdora" (Μπογδορά). Another reference with the use happened a geological change, a river which flowed in the area changed and the inhabitants moved to another spring. In the beginning of the Turkish period, the settlement was moved to its current location. Several centuries later, many men traveled to Moldovlachia for economic reasons and had moved their families in Ravenia. Later, the Turkish-Albanians inhabited the area and took their families to moved elsewhere. According with the surrender, eighty "seles" left.

The first public school was built in 1901 with the minister of what he thought Georgios Gkazianis which he studied in Constantinople (now Istanbul). The school was built with a gift. The village was ruined by the Turks during the Balkan Wars. Its residents left as refugees south to Filippiada which it had an organized help from the philanthropic council in the then free Greece. The Greek Army gave them skirmishes in the surrounding high area and before it moved ahead for the last battle in Bizani, they battled with the same chronic space nearby the town and finally ended the Turkish rule for the last time, though it was annexed in the Balkan Wars in 1913, it was the last occupied area

Raveni became a part of Greece after the Balkan Wars in 1912-1913. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, its buildings were rebuilt, residents during the war fled via the road of refugee to the neighbouring Xerovouni and in nearby villages which had a family rule, the school ran once again until 1982 which was closed in which it was not brought down by the war but by urbanism in Greece and abroad by emigration. Raveni became connected with asphalt in the 1980s. More pavement was accessed in the late 20th century. Electricity, radio and automobiles were introduced in 1964 and water in 1967, television in the late-20th century and computer and internet at the turn of the millennium.

Ravenia today

Fifty families remain today in Ravenia and its main economy are agriculture since. Its main productions are fruits and vegetables, cattle, olives and others.

Other

Ravenia has a church, a square ("plateia"). Its nearest school, gymnasium (middle school), lyceum (secondary school) are near the area.

ee also

*List of places in the Ioannina prefecture

External links

* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=3216 Raveni at the GTP Travel Pages]
* [http://www.statistics.gr/gr_tables/S1101_SAP_1_TB_DC_01_01_Y.pdf Εθνική Στατιστική Υπηρεσία Απογραφή 2001]