B2. Historical study of settlements in Greece (15th-20th c.)

Documentation - Research activities

Residential setting of Attica - Documentation
Municipal Archive of Drapetsona
Municipal Archive of Ymittos

In 2008 a project came in our research forefront, which basically manages with the residential setting of Attica, but more precisely the areas that refugee population settled in 1922. The basic subjects of this task enclose issues such as: rapid changes in residential and population constitution of the settlements of Attica which the arrival of the refugees heralded, the degree of their integration in Greek society, the demographic aspects of the communities e.t.c. Dimitris Dimitropoulos is supervision of this project.

Documentation for the established of settlements of Piraeus
Drapetsona, Keratsini, Perama, Nikaia and Agios Ioannis Rentis are settlements that had been created within the administrative boundaries of Piraeus Municipality, nevertheless, barren of urban planning and street design and thus state control. The majority of refugees that settled in Piraeus found temporary shelter in public buildings, schools, derelict warehouses and ended up in wooden shacks that they usually built for themselves.
In this project we attempted to outline these five settlements around some pillars:
the population evolution, the electoral behavior and the residential development. According to that plan, demographic data based on population censuses from 1920 to 1961 have been collected, professional drivers had been indexed and through bibliography we endeavored a first approach to the residential core of the settlements.

Myconos: archival research - classification of the Municipal Archive
In 2009 with the collaboration of the Prefecture of Cyclades and the Municipality of Mykonos a fieldwork research had taken place in Myconos, with a view to identify, preserve and record the archival material, kept on the island. The series of documents dating since 1830, that had been detected covering the entire 19th and 20th century, restore sufficiently the primary file.
In 2010 we activated in a more detailed classification and recording of this archive of  19th century. The research team was composed by the historians Christos Chrysanthopoulos, Giorgos Gasias, Eleni Papamakariou and Stefanos Vamiedakis, under the supervision of Dimitris Dimitropoulos and with the collaboration of professor Christos Loukos (University of Crete).

Tinos: Research - Documentation - classification of historic and archival Material
In November and early December of 2010 research mission of the Institute conducted fieldwork in Tinos. The members of the projects and external partners of INR, Kostis Karpozilos, Andromachi Marouda, Vallia Rapti and Stefanos Vamiedakis, conducted the recording of archival material and publishing's' on a variety of operators, but specifically at the Sanctuary Foundation of Agia Triada in the region Gyrla.
The archival material that had been recorded, it is though to date from the interwar period to the second half of the 20th century.

Livadeia Settlements
Database involving information, data and statistics about the settlements and population development of the province. Editor: Dimitris Dimitropoulos

Settlements of "Meriki Geographia" by Argyris Fillipidis"
Population data of Thessaly and Central Greece, recorded in "Meriki Geographia" by Argyris Fillipidis (1815). Editor: Dimitris Dimitropoulos

Detailed description is given in the Greek version.