Ellinopyrgos (), formerly (and occasionally in popular usage) known as Gralista (), is a village in the central part of Greece with 136 inhabitants in 2021. It is located in the municipality Mouzaki and the regional unit Karditsa in Thessaly.
Ellinopyrgos (), formerly (and occasionally in popular usage) known as Gralista (), is a village in the central part of Greece with 136 inhabitants in 2021. It is located in the municipality Mouzaki and the regional unit Karditsa in Thessaly.
== History == The first reference to the settlement is made in a letter of 1328 discovered by the university professor Nikos Veis in a monastery of Meteora and which mentions the settlement with the name Gradistio. In the following years the village meets the name Gralista. Initially the settlement was lower but due to a plague epidemic that broke out in the middle of the 17th century the surviving inhabitants left their original homes and settled in the livestock settlement located in the current location of the village. The village was included in the treaty that granted autonomy to the so-called Agrafa, a mountainous region in Central Greece during Ottoman times. In the following years it experienced growth based mainly on livestock and textile home industry. During the 18th century, Cosmas of Aetolia visited the area.
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