Tristeno
Tristeno
Τρίστενο | |
|---|---|
  Tristeno | |
| Coordinates: 39°47.6′N 21°0.1′E / 39.7933°N 21.0017°E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | Epirus |
| Regional unit | Ioannina |
| Municipality | Zagori |
| Municipal unit | East Zagori |
| Area | |
• Community | 15.325 km2 (5.917 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 940 m (3,080 ft) |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
• Community | 55 |
| • Density | 3.6/km2 (9.3/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | 440 14 |
| Area code | +30-2656 |
| Vehicle registration | ΙΝ |
Tristeno (Greek: Τρίστενο; before 1927: Δρεστενίκον, Drestenikon)[2][3] is a village and a community of the Zagori municipality.[4] Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of East Zagori, of which it was a municipal district.[4] The 2021 census recorded 55 inhabitants in the village.[1] The community of Tristeno covers an area of 15.325 km2.[5]
Name
The village is recorded as Tristeanikon in 1319.[6] Linguist Max Vasmer writes the village name is linked to southern Slavic toponym Trъstěnikъ, from where the form Tristeanikon arose with a rendering of the Slavic ě with ea (ia) in Greek.[6]
Trъstěnikъ is formed from the Slavic noun trъstъ meaning 'reed' and the accusative ending -ěnъ becoming trъstěnъ and the suffix -ikъ with which accusative forms are substantivised.[6] The form Tristeaniko(n) later became (N)tresteniko with replacement of ea with e through the influence of a false etymology based on Greek tri stena 'three narrows'.[6] The new official Greek name is formed from tri ste na as Tristeno based on the village location below four hills and close to an area where three pits formed in between the geographical features.[7]
D. Raiou writes the original placename Dresteniko (Dristeniku in Aromanian) is from the toponymic form Tristeno with the prefix of the Aromanian preposition n 'in' from Latin in and the Aromanian diminutive suffix -icu, meaning 'small Tristeno'.[7] Linguist Kostas Oikonomou states though the diminutive toponymic formation is possible, it is untenable as it presupposes the existence of a 'big Tristeno' which does not exist.[7]
History
Tristeno was first recorded in a golden edict of 1319 (a type of concession) of Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II.[8]
In the late 19th century Ioannis Lambridis wrote the village was located in a valley, "crossed downwards by a deep pit" and traditionally populated by Albanian shepherds, Aromanian was not spoken and the village language was Greek with many Albanian words.[9]
Although no memories are preserved among the local population of any past Orthodox Christian Albanian presence, Albanian linguistic remnants in the local Greek speech may point that they were the first settlers of the village. This would also explain the other local Aromanian name of the village Arbineshi ("Albanian village") given by the neighbouring Aromanian area of Zagori.[10][11] Linguist Thede Kahl (1999) writes the village might have been a mixed Albanian–Aromanian village, while historian Asterios Koukoudis (2003) states that it should not be included among Aromanian villages.[12][13]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
- ^ Institute for Neohellenic Research. "Name Changes of Settlements in Greece: Drestenikon – Tristenon". Pandektis. Archived from the original on 29 April 2025. Retrieved 21 December 2025.
- ^ Hellenic Agency for Local Development and Local Government. "Διοικητικές Μεταβολές των Οικισμών: Δρεστενίκον – Τρίστενον" [Administrative Changes of Settlements: Drestenikon – Tristenon]. EETAA (in Greek). Retrieved 29 December 2025.
- ^ a b "ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities" (in Greek). Government Gazette.
- ^ "Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)" (PDF) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece.
- ^ a b c d Oikonomou 2002, p. 234.
- ^ a b c Oikonomou 2002, p. 233.
- ^ Koukoudis 2003, p. 150: "A chrysobull of 1319 issued by Andronikos II Palaiologos tells us of the existence of the nucleus of the village of Tristeno , though we cannot e certain that it was a Vlach village."
- ^ Oikonomou 2002, pp. 233–234.
- ^ Kahl 1999, pp. 113–14: Auch wenn die heutige Bevölkerung keinerlei Erinnerung an arvanitische Vorfahren bewahrt hat, legen albanische Sprachreste in ihrem Griechisch nahe, daß die ersten Siedler des Dorfes Arvaniten gewesen sind. Dies würde auch seinen aromunischen Namen erklären: Arbineși heißt „das albanische“. Arvanitische Familien haben sich in mindestens zwölf Dörfern in Zagóri angesiedelt
- ^ Koukoudis 2003, p. 161: "though it is said that there were many Albanian loanwords in the Greek dialect spoken there . With all this in mind, it is understandable why the inhabitants of the other villages in Vlahozagoro call Tristeno "Arbinesi", which in Vlach means "Albanian village"
- ^ Kahl 1999, pp. 106, 114: Trísteno ... grazisierte Aromunen ?
- ^ Koukoudis 2003, p. 147: Tristeno should not be regarded as a Vlach village, indeed it may never have been
Sources
- Kahl, Thede (1999). "Die Zagóri-Dörfer in Nordgriechenland: Wirtschaftliche Einheit – ethnische Vielfalt" [The Zagóri Villages in Northern Greece: Economic Unity – Ethnic Diversity]. Ethnologia Balkanica (in German). 3. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 February 2026.
- Koukoudis, Asterios (2003). The Vlachs: Metropolis and Diaspora. Zitros Publications. ISBN 9789607760869.
- Oikonomou, Kostas E. (2002). Τα οικωνύμια του νομού Ιωαννίνων. Γλωσσολογική εξέταση [The oikonyms of the prefecture of Ioannina. A linguistic examination] (PDF) (in Greek). Nomarchiaki Aftodioikisi Ioanninon. ISBN 9789608316010. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 November 2024.