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Veliachovo also known as Velahovë, Velahova, Velaxovo, Veliachovon, Velihovë, Vllahovë is a village V.Ipeirou, located east of the city of Saranda. Administratively it belongs to the province Mesopotamo county Delvinou Vlora region. The Veliachovites all Orthodox Christians and their native language is Greek. At the foot of Red LITHARIA with altitude 345m above sea level is the village with about 35 houses scattered on the mountainside, immersed in greenery dominated fruiting trees such as fig (Fig tree), pears (pears) Almond (almonds), and especially olive trees. Beside the mountain rises Drougkano 'm altitude 842m. While BA the Red Lithari 938m.pano the surface of thalassas.Anamesa them a nice plateau of 750m. height is called Kavasila. Oli the hillside are overgrown with shrubs, where distinguishable Nettle sage, thyme, lavender, oregano, etc. Above will
meetings Oak, the factions, parties, for hunters is axiolatrefta. I slope Veliachovou, autumn seems admirably carpet very beautiful combination. The main pharmaceutical plant that grows here is the Sage, where residents have dealt the harvest of years old, with a sufficient economic benefit.
History.
In the village square stands the church of St. Nicholas count that chtisteike of 14The century AD. Destroyed on communist regime in 1967 and reconstructed in 1996 by the villagers. 300 meters above the village there are ruins of an ancient temple, where they saved the monastery, where residents call it Virgin. The V.Mparas in his book called Lady of the Assumption. At 750 from the sea level and 400 meters in height the village is the monastery Ntrougkanou the Dryogonovouniou like names and V.Mparas in his book. The locals call it the Holy Trinity. According to the testimony in this monastery inhabited by 40 monks, where they had too many goats, arable land, etc. Confirm this and toponyms Kalogeropigado, Despotic. Most mentioned and Drovianitis historian N.Mystakidis which gives much information about the presence of the monastery named Holy Trinity and that someday the 14th century was destroyed by sacrifice of vandals, after ransacked.
Founder of the Monastery indicate an abbot Caesarius. The date of incorporation and dissolution are undetermined. You lose the depth of centuries.
Abbot reported the following:
Gerasimos, native of Droviani.
Parthenios from the now deserted village Soulana.
Mitrophanes from the Muslim village today Avaritsa. It is said that the monastery had been founded upon the ruins of an ancient temple Referring to worship the god Hephaestus and fire. Established under the altar is of copper and blacksmiths of the time.
In the monastery there were many goats, including two thousand Sciuto (goats without horns) and this proves the poem extant: In cutting the sheep in cutting goats. Grazing on Drougkano in Red Lithari. Nine thousand was, both were Sciuto. And one day than many were lost and nine...
The very milk of the monastery, sent to the city of palms with clay pipes, parts of which were found by chance near the bridge of the skull. Many Veliachovites remember, the bonds of their grandparents, that within 1km of the village, there was a village with 800 families (based on the data, but the number is a bit excessive), which prove the remains found. Here we find the names: Kavasila, Moutsiana, Molitsa where the last two are Slavic. The archaeological research will illuminate the innuendo of the ancient settlement. According to V. Baran, here, an inscription carved in stone, probably tombstone: IRICY GOUACETON AVE. The fate of this relic ignored so far. In mountain ridge Red Lithari in Agnadio to the neck Musina ruins fortress defensive - probably for protection of ancient Phoenicia. During the Turkish occupation in the 15th - 16th century (based on the tax records from 1431 to 1432) the Velihov (Veliachovo) was a fief Turkish military feudalism covered vilayet of Vagionetias with 37 ane (oikog.me man and woman) ap'tis which 2 bive (parent widowed men) and 6 mucerrend (parent widows) and paid tribute 3351aktse (white) 1431 ARVANID SANCAGI A.I.I.Tirana s.195). The same tax ledger is the village the camp Koqinolisar (Red Lithari) with 29 ane families with tax audit. amount of 2881 aktsie. In the tax audit. ledger of 1581-82 DELVIN TABU KADASTRI, the Velihov has 165 taxable noikokyria. To Koqinolisar is not liable as shown the abandoned village is united with Velihov (Veliachovo). Subsequent censuses for our village go to 1852 (of P.Aravantinou Year of Epirus in 1856 that Veliachovo reaches 12 congratulati. A shrinking population for the period was a general phenomenon due to fear of allaxopistias and unbearable taxes Ragia. with 10 aktsie then bought one ewe that 38.5 kg of wheat. chorionymia this must have been recent as that of Turkish timartzi (your name), plus the quote, adding the feudal titlo. Meta processing we have today Veliachovo. the chorionymio Koqinolicar in the ledger came from their Greek name of Red mountain Lithari was probably the name of the extinct untaxed village, although this has given his fields to the monastery, where not indicated in the ledger of 1582. To December 1912 the fanatic Muslims and the new masters of the land in order to drive out the Greek inhabitants of the fatherland their villages burnt offering in the mire and Riza. Tote holocaust and Veliachovo and its residents made ​​their way to the refugee Lesinitsa - Tsamanta. returned after being stopped the chase and began their household from the beginning. struggle for an inch of land was synecheia. Oi landowners Tsinides, based Mitsiopoliti, from 1918, began pushing the small villages emptied their estates in order to transform in meadows, where they had more revenue. 1922-24 emptied villages Moulamousa and Mitsiopoliti. their inhabitants settled in Dogwood, Veliachovo, Mesopotamia. Veliachovo the was able to withstand the pressures and not shook, even came to Veliachovo and the Moulamousiotes: Gkinaioi, Bolaioi, Syrianaioi. Veliachovites the crofters few acres cultivated with cereals in mantillas and Gary, all chalikochorafa. their soul was livestock, since the part containing the best pastures. Veliachovites the Antifascist Struggle resisted in the first days, even volunteers ranked the first resistance of 1920 in Vlora. in 1939-1944 joined the fight against fasismou. To village was liberated zone through the period of the occupation. Upon release the Veliachovites profited from the agrarian reform land they ripped unfairly by landlords. Quickly, she handed it to the agricultural cooperative in 1960. as cooperators, now, have worked very hard. Increase livestock created froutokalliergeies. With all the pittance does He improved their living conditions. the only their achievement was in education. As believers in tradition and filomatheis. To 1850 opened primary school in the Greek language which operated with financial assistance from the village itself and later, along with the eight-year Lyviniotes 1958. 90 % of the students have send high school graduates and reached number 30. emphasize the tradition because in 1885, during the Ottoman occupation in Veliachovo and Lyvina opened regular school with the care of the monastery Dryanou with the endowment of immigrants Epirots Romania.
Traditional clothing.
The Veliachovo always had traditional dance group and amateur troupe am the organizer of the dance, Christos Soc. Nousia of Veliachovo.
The Veliachovo is like the gold-embroidered traditional clothing alatza long and colorful headscarf, the yellow apron and telatinia rustic shoes with red tassels. Today the village has shrunk since 75% of the population has emigrated. Hopes for a return is if the village is changing with new homes, his association with the highway etc.
The Veliachovo is complex MUSEUM: natural, archaeological, folklore, rich flora and fauna, archaeological sites, mountains filled with green, crystal, frosted drinking water, clean air. Here there is the possibility of fun rather the sport hunting partridge, pigeon, rabbit etc. For novices visitors just 400m.pano Ap village is the archaeological site of the Paliomonastiro otherwise Monastery Ntrougkanou and 1.5km. beyond the top of the Red LITHARIA the ruins of the ancient defensive fort. The residents of mild, Dobro, hospitable. In short, the Veliachovo has all the prerequisites and prospects for the development of mountain tourism. In the village square there is the church of St. Nicholas. In the village you can go crossing the highway Ag.Saranta - Gjirokastra. At 15The km from the city in Ag.Saranta, right on the bridge of the village Bistritsa at 3.4 km the village Veliachovo.
Historical figures from Veliachovo.
Housekeeper Papa Dimitrios Veliachovon from 1835 - 1836 Commissioner Bishop Joachim of Chios and the Metropolitan Neophytos, until 1836. (See page 114 in the book, the Kingdom Bar 1887-1964, Delvino of BGP . Epirus).