Theologos (Thasos)
Theologos (Θεολόγος), under the Turkish rule of Tolos (Τολός), is a mountain village in the southwest of the island of Thasos , about 11 km northeast of Potos .
The place is on the western slope of a flat sunken, northeast-southwest running valley cut. The overgrown foundations of a former medieval district can be found on the eastern slope over an extension of about 500 m, to the east of it the traces of a fort, which is said to have been built under the Gattilusio by the island administrator Umberto Grimaldi in the mid-15th century. This area of the settlement is said to have been destroyed by Maltese pirates.
Theologos experienced the second boom after the fall of Constantinople . Higher officials and employees of the last Byzantine emperor Constantine XI. Palaiologos fled to Thasos, where they founded two settlements, the upper burgher in Theologos and the lower one an hour apart in Kastro .
Under the Egyptian feudal rule of Muhammad Ali Pasha , also known as the "Pasha of Egypt", Theologos became the capital and administrative seat of the island in 1813 and enjoyed many privileges. Numerous Ottomans and higher Egyptian officials settled here. In 1856, a total of 240 families had settled. Theologos was the most populous place on the island with land holdings that stretched on the southeast side of the island from Koinyra (Κοίνυρα) to Potos (Ποτός), the landing site of Theologos.
The influential and wealthy Chatzi family residing in Theologos held the hereditary office of Başçorbacı or Proedros of Thasos from 1831 to 1874. In the Greek liberation struggle in 1821 the Thasitic rebels under the Proedros Chatzi Giorgis (Χατζή Γιώργης) forced the Ottoman occupation forces to leave the island. The restored estate of the Chatzis (Χατζής) in Theologos is worth seeing. With the wave of refugees from Asia Minor in 1922, the place experienced a strong increase in Greek immigrants.
In the civil war 1944–1950, the first to die on Thasos was Laskarouda Sakouli (Λασκαρούδα Σακούλη), a young woman who was murdered at a demonstration in front of the police station of Theologos. The surrounding high mountains were the base of operations of the Antartes, in 1948 still for a group of 5 to 7 men, under Dimitri Manolitsos (Δημήτρη Μανωλίτσο).
Individual evidence
literature
- Sotiris Ierakoudis: Ιστορία της Θάσος , Astris / Thasos, 2005
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Coordinates: 40 ° 40 ′ N , 24 ° 41 ′ E