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Molyvdoskepastos

Molyvdoskepastos (, before 1929: Δεπαλίτσα, Depalitsa) is a village located in the municipality of Konitsa, in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. It has a population of 45 people (2021) and is the birthplace of former Greek President Karolos Papoulias. Although traditionally included in the historical region of Pogoni, it is not a part of the municipality of Pogoni.

The village is located on the eastern side of Mt. Nemërçka, on the left side of the river Vjosa and is 1.5km west to south-west from its merger with the Sarantaporos river.

Name

The village is recorded as Dipalitza in the chronicle of Mount Athos (1585), while in the 19th century scholar Panagiotis Aravantinos uses the same form and scholar Ioannis Lambridis wrote it as Dipalitsa and described as meaning 'water mill'.

Linguist Kostas Oikonomou states the toponym is Albanian and a compound derived from the Albanian numeral dy 'two' and the preposition palic/ë, -a which is a form of the noun pal/ë, -a meaning 'aspect, district, side' and the diminutive ending in old Albanian -icë and -ica stemming from the Slavic -ica, while the Albanian y became i in Greek. The word pal/ë, -a is used in the toponym as a geographical term. The village was renamed after the Monastery of Panagia Molyvdoskepastos.

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