Karvounari

Karvounari (Greek: Καρβουνάρι) is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Paramythia in Thesprotia, Greece. Its population in 2011 was 523. It is situated at about 140 m elevation. It is 5 km northeast of Margariti, 8 km southwest of Paramythia and 22 km southeast of Igoumenitsa.

Karvounari
Καρβουνάρι
Karvounari is located in Greece
Karvounari
Karvounari
Coordinates: 39°23.5′N 20°29′E
CountryGreece
Administrative regionEpirus
Regional unitThesprotia
MunicipalitySouli
Municipal unitParamythia
Community
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 • Population523 (2011)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

History

In 1928, representatives from the Cham communities in Paramythia, Karvounari and Filiates, requested the opening of two Muslim schools which they would fund themselves. The Greek authorities officially rejected the request, fearing that these Muslim schools would serve Albanian state propaganda by promoting an anti-Greek sentiment among the Chams of Greece. Regardless, the Greek government allowed their operation unofficially because it could close them as illegal at any time, and could also claim that their function fulfilled demands for Albanian schools in Chameria.[2] A mass exodus of Chams from Greece occurred as a result of the greco-italian war and the German occupation of Greece in the 1940s,[3] so that today no such population exists.

See also

References
  1. "Απογραφή Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2011. ΜΟΝΙΜΟΣ Πληθυσμός" (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority.
  2. Fortna, Benjamin; Katsikas, Stefanos; Kamouzis, Dimitris; Konortas, Paraskevas (2012). State-Nationalisms in the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Turkey: Orthodox and Muslims, 1830-1945. Routledge. p. 161. ISBN 1136220526.
  3. Manta, Eleutheria. Οι μουσουλμάνοι Τσάμηδες της Ηπείρου (1923-2000) (in Greek). http://www.researchgate.net/publication/275963156_Oi_mousoulmanoi_Tsamedes_tes_Epeirou_1923-2000. {{cite book}}: External link in |location= (help)CS1 maint: location (link)
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