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The Chalkiades, Chara, Agios Konstantinos, Zoodochos Pigi, Krini, Agia Triada, Skotoussa, Thetido are its settlements Regional unit of Larissa in the Municipal Unit Farsalon.
At a glance
The Chalkiades is a small village of the Municipality of Farsala in the Prefecture of Larissa. It has a population of about 363 inhabitants, who are engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. It is located in the valley of Pinios and is 30 km from Larissa. Until 1927, the old name of the village was Karademertzi. It consists of two settlements, Ano Chalkiades whose population consists of refugees from the village of Delka (Tilkoy) in Cappadocia and Kato Chalkiades which consists of locals. It got its name because of the large percentage of blacksmiths.
The village Thetidio is 35 km away from the capital of the prefecture, Larissa. Its altitude exceeds 320 meters. Its inhabitants are exclusively engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. They grow wheat, barley, cotton and industrial tomatoes. There are also several livestock farms where sheep and turkeys are raised. From a demographic point of view, the population of the village is constantly decreasing. The 2011 Census recorded 74 inhabitants.
History
How to get there
From EO3 Larissis - Farsalon street
How to move
What to see
- Byzantine church of the Assumption of Christ (At the western end of Thetidi). It is "registered" in the earth, its roof is at the same level as the earth's surface. The temple, simple and unpretentious, was built with stone and clay many centuries ago, in 1100 AD, in a wooded, deserted and inaccessible area at that time, in a place where it was impossible to locate it by the human eye, because it was surrounded by dense and tall trees, mainly oaks, but also because, as mentioned above, it was built in the ground. The presence of a cell testifies that the temple was the main building of a monastery, in which ascetics and monks rested until 1720. Then new inhabitants arrived and settled, founding the village of Alhani (Turkish name), today's Thetidio. The Alchaniotes were engaged almost exclusively in agriculture and animal husbandry. The professions of coppersmith (blacksmith), horseman, barrel maker, seamstress and coffee-maker were extremely useful at that time. So the monks left for another, obviously deserted, area. Since then the Byzantine church was the church of the newly established settlement (1720). All Christian ceremonies were held there, for 244 whole years, until 1964, when the new church of the village was erected at a distance of about 400 meters from the old one.
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In Ano Chalkiades a festival is held on the day of Agios Georgios on April 23, while in Kato Chalkiades of Agios Charalambos on February 10.
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