Agios Thomas, Boeotia
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Agios Thomas Άγιος Θωμάς |
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 Agios Thomas
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| Coordinates: 38°16′N 23°35′E / 38.267°N 23.583°ECoordinates: 38°16′N 23°35′E / 38.267°N 23.583°E | |
| Country | Greece |
| Administrative region | Central Greece |
| Regional unit | Boeotia |
| Municipality | Tanagra |
| Municipal unit | Oinofyta |
| Highest elevation | 61 m (200 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
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| • Population | 1,292 (2011) |
| • Area (km2) | 39.262 |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
| Postal code | 320 09 |
| Area code(s) | 22620 |
| Vehicle registration | ΒΙ |
Agios Thomas (Greek: Άγιος Θωμάς, before 1929: Λιάτανη - Liatani) is a village in Boeotia, Greece. It is a community of Tanagra municipality, near Athens. The community has an area of 39.262 km2.
Liatani was the name before 1929. Several theories exist for its etymology:
The name: Mavromati is mentioned in the book of Colonel William Martin Leake: Travels in Northern Greece, during his visit to the region in 1806. Also the prefect of Thebes, N. Karoris at his report: 'Ekthesis incident, raising the month of April during the 1830' on the conflict with the Turks to lands on 19 June 1833, records the name or Liatani or Mavromati village of Livadia . (Liatani was under the jurisdiction of the province Livadias). Source: Unpublished Documents relating to the final deliberation of the land in eastern Greece. Elias Papathanassopoulos.
By the 8th century AD the Eastern Roman Empire, based at Constantinople, had reconquered the Greek countryside from the Slavs, including Boeotia, and this ushered in a period of steady growth of rural population and at the major regional towns (such as Thebes in Central Boeotia). We can match this picture from Byzantine sources with the results of our rural survey around Tanagra a whole series of small villages or hamlets was established at regular intervals of every few kilometres, datable by characteristic Middle Byzantine ceramics found on their surface to foundations in the 10th−11th centuries AD. These continue to flourish into the next period of Crusader feudal conquest of our region (13th−14th century). The advantageous location of ancient Tanagra City explains the fact that one such village is founded only a kilometre from the ancient town, by the rural church still standing from that village of Agios Thomas. The church is Middle Byzantine of 12th century AD date, whilst the associated village which we discovered from widespread surface pottery in the fields left of the church, was occupied from the 11th−14th centuries AD (A. Vionis, Leiden). All the Byzantine villages disappear in the 14th century, and this can be related to the return of the Bubonic Plague and to the devastating wars between the Franks, the Byzantines and the Turks which left most of the southern Mainland of Greece cleared of population, which either retreated to upland villages in each region or was carried off into slavery.
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