The Helonaki Deep Dive 2.14

The town of Aigio/Vostitsa

Release date: August 10, 2023

Map of Aigio with locations of 6 churches indicated and pictures of 4 of the churches.

Description:

The Venetian records from 1700 record 5 churches in Aigio, but only 3 of them are still extant today. A look at what happened and changes to the town through time using census and other records, traveler accounts, and maps.

Show Links:

Look at the accompanying maps and images on the companion page for this episode.

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  • Οδοιπορικο στην Ελλαδα 1668-1671 (Çelebi, Evliya, translated by K. Koutsika, 2005) Politeia Bookshop in Athens
  • Narrative of travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the seventeenth century (Çelebi, Evliya, translated by Hammer-Purgstall, 1834 and does NOT include Aigio) Internet Archive
  • Travelogues website
  • The Early Ottoman Peloponnese (Liakopoulos, 2019) Bookshop
  • The Venetian Cadaster of Vostitsa (in Greek) (Dokos and Panagopoulos, 1993) WorldCat
  • Greek Population Census of 27 October 1907 (2 volumes) (in Greek and French) ELSTAT
  • Description of Greece (Pausanias, translation by Jones and Ormerod, 1918) Perseus The portion about Aigio is 7.23.5 through 7.24.4
  • The chronicle of Morea: historiography in Crusader Greece (Shawcross, 2009)
  • Travels in Greece, or, An account of a tour made at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti (Chandler, 1776) Internet Archive
  • Travels in the Morea, Albania, and other parts of the Ottoman Empire (Pouqueville, 1813 English translation) Google Books
  • Travels in the Morea: With a Map and Plans, volume 3 (Leake, 1830) Google Books
  • Large Eighteenth-Nineteeth Century Earthquakes in Western Gulf of Corinth with Reappraised Size and Location (Albini et al., 2017) HAL open science
  • Expedition scientifique de Moree, ordonnee par le gouvernement francais: architecture, sculptures, inscriptions et vuew du Peloponese, des Cyclades et de l'Attique (Blouet, 1838) Arachne
  • Urban Planning in the Greek State 1833 - 1890 (Monioudi-Gavala, 2012, in Greek and English)

Credits:

Theme music by Dan-O

Additional sounds from Zapsplat

The Helonaki Deep Dive is written and produced by Jen Glaubius of The Helonaki