Tsakonia
Sign in to saveTsakonia (, Tsakoniá; Tsakonian: Τσακωνία, Tsakonía) or the Tsakonian region () refers to the small area in the eastern Peloponnese where the Tsakonian language is spoken, in the area surrounding 13 towns, villages and hamlets located around Pera Melana in Arcadia. It is not a formally defined political entity of the modern Greek state.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Tsakonians
- Ethnic group.population
- c. 8,321 (2011 Greek census)
- Ethnic group.image
- Pelopones ethnic.JPG
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- 1890 ethnographic map of the Peloponnese, with Tsakonian-speaking areas in sky blue
- Ethnic group.popplace
- Greece, United States, Australia
- Ethnic group.langs
- Modern and Tsakonian Greek
- Ethnic group.rels
- Until 9th century: Ancient Greek religion; from 9th century to present: Greek Orthodox Christianity
- Ethnic group.related_groups
- Maniots and other Greeks
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Tsakonia (, Tsakoniá; Tsakonian: Τσακωνία, Tsakonía) or the Tsakonian region () refers to the small area in the eastern Peloponnese where the Tsakonian language is spoken, in the area surrounding 13 towns, villages and hamlets located around Pera Melana in Arcadia. It is not a formally defined political entity of the modern Greek state.
==Extent== In his Brief Grammar of the Tsakonian Dialect published in 1951, Prof. Thanasis Costakis defines Tsakonia as the area from the town of Agios Andreas in Kynouria south to Leonidio and Tyros and inland as far as Kastanitsa and Sitaina, but asserts that in former times the Tsakonian-speaking area extended as far as Cape Malea in eastern Laconia. The principal town in Tsakonia at this time was Prastos, which benefited from a special trading privilege granted by the authorities in Constantinople. Prastos was burned by Ibrahim Pasha in the Greek War of Independence and was abandoned, with many of its residents fleeing to the area around Leonidio and Tyros or other spots on the Argolic Gulf.