Filiates Municipality
Filiates (; ) is a town and a municipality in Thesprotia, Greece. It is located in the northernmost part of the regional unit, bordering western Ioannina regional unit and southern Albania.
Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Filiates
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Φιλιάτες
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipality
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- 2011 Dimos Filiaton.png
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Epirus
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Thesprotia
- Greek Dimos.pop_municipality
- 6347
- Greek Dimos.area_municipality
- 583.5
- Greek Dimos.pop_municunit
- 4767
- Greek Dimos.area_municunit
- 495.7
- Greek Dimos.pop_community
- 2244
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.licence
Article
12 sectionsContents
- Name
- Geography
- Municipality
- History
- Ancient history
- Medieval and modern history
- Population
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
Filiates (; ) is a town and a municipality in Thesprotia, Greece. It is located in the northernmost part of the regional unit, bordering western Ioannina regional unit and southern Albania.
==Name== The region of Filiates was known as Cestrine prior to the Ottoman period. The region is named for the ancient town of Cestria, in ancient Epirus, other ancient names for which were Cammania, Ilion, Epirus, and Troia; the site of ancient Cestria is probably over the Albanian frontier. The modern name Filiates is the result of the conversion of a surname. According to Johann Georg von Hahn, Eqrem Çabej, Idriz Ajeti and Ali Dhrimo, the toponym Filat contains the Albanian suffix -at, widely used to form toponyms from personal names and surnames. According to Konstantinos Giakoumis, it applies to a certain Filios (diminutive of Theofilos) with the addition of the Greek ending -άτες or -άταις. Local tradition from the 19th century documents a person named Filios; he was a farrier and allegedly the first inhabitant of Filiates. Athanasios Petrides and Dimitrios Kampouroglou opined that the name descends from the Latin word filius.