GEORGIOS TSOTSOS
Georgios P. Tsotsos [email protected]
Georgios P. Tsotsos was born (1956) in Voion, Kozani, Western Macedonia, Greece. He lives in Thessaloniki, Greece. Inspector - Supervisor of teachers Civil Engineers, Architects and Surveyor Engineers in Public Secondary Education of Northern Greece (retired).
Degree in Surveying Engineering from Aristotle University, Thessaloniki. Graduated from the School of Pedagogical Technological Education SELETE Thessaloniki. MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Western Macedonia. Diploma of Advanced Studies (D.E.A.) in History of Science and Technology, University of Charles de Gaulles - Lille III. PhD in Urban and Regional Planning and Development, School of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Postdoctoral Researcher in Historical Geography, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies at the University of Macedonia.
He was Scientific Researcher in the Laboratory of Geodesy, School of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Member of the Scientific Committee of the Centre for Studies of Old Stone Bridges of Greece, Member of the Board of The Greek National Centre for Maps and Cartographic Heritage. He has served as a lecturer in the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki and the Greek Public Secondary Technical - Vocational Education, Professor in the Department of History and Ethnology of Dimokriteion University of Thrace, visiting Professor in the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Studies Programme of the Faculty of Engineering, Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki, in the Postgraduate Studies Programmes of the Department of Balkan Studies, in the Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Western Macedonia, and the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki.
He has published more than 70 articles in scientific journals, conference proceedings and collective volumes related to Historical Human Geography, Regional Planning, History of Geography - Cartography and of Surveying - Geodesy, as well as technical and vocational education. He also has more than 30 non-scientific articles dealing with related topics, and has received an honorary distinction from the Publishers’ Association of Northern Greece. His published books include: Macedonian Old Stone Bridges: Topography, Architecture, History and Folklore (1997), Galatini Voiou Kozani: A Human Geography and Folklore Approach to the Space of Western Macedonia (1998), Historical Geography of Western Macedonia: The Settlement Network 14th-17th Centuries (2011) and (with E. P. Dimitriadis) Historical Geography of Thrace in 19th Century (2021). He has edited nine (9) collective volumes such as: (with E. P. Dimitriadis and A.-F. Lagopoulos) Historical Geography: Roads and Crossroads of the Balkans from Antiquity to the European Union (1998), (with D. Drakoulis) Historical Geography of Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean (2012), (with D. Drakoulis) Historical, Social and Urban Analysis of Space: Tribute to Professor Evangelos Dimitriadis (2014), (with E. Gavra and K. Gioufi) Culture and Space in the Balkans (2015), Homelands of Romeosyni: Tribute to Professor Athanasios E. Karathanasis (2018).
Ηe has engaged in mountain hiking and photographing Greek nature and traditional architecture and has showcased his work in more than ten photography exhibitions.
Georgios P. Tsotsos was born (1956) in Voion, Kozani, Western Macedonia, Greece. He lives in Thessaloniki, Greece. Inspector - Supervisor of teachers Civil Engineers, Architects and Surveyor Engineers in Public Secondary Education of Northern Greece (retired).
Degree in Surveying Engineering from Aristotle University, Thessaloniki. Graduated from the School of Pedagogical Technological Education SELETE Thessaloniki. MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Western Macedonia. Diploma of Advanced Studies (D.E.A.) in History of Science and Technology, University of Charles de Gaulles - Lille III. PhD in Urban and Regional Planning and Development, School of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Postdoctoral Researcher in Historical Geography, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies at the University of Macedonia.
He was Scientific Researcher in the Laboratory of Geodesy, School of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Member of the Scientific Committee of the Centre for Studies of Old Stone Bridges of Greece, Member of the Board of The Greek National Centre for Maps and Cartographic Heritage. He has served as a lecturer in the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki and the Greek Public Secondary Technical - Vocational Education, Professor in the Department of History and Ethnology of Dimokriteion University of Thrace, visiting Professor in the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Studies Programme of the Faculty of Engineering, Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki, in the Postgraduate Studies Programmes of the Department of Balkan Studies, in the Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Western Macedonia, and the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki.
He has published more than 70 articles in scientific journals, conference proceedings and collective volumes related to Historical Human Geography, Regional Planning, History of Geography - Cartography and of Surveying - Geodesy, as well as technical and vocational education. He also has more than 30 non-scientific articles dealing with related topics, and has received an honorary distinction from the Publishers’ Association of Northern Greece. His published books include: Macedonian Old Stone Bridges: Topography, Architecture, History and Folklore (1997), Galatini Voiou Kozani: A Human Geography and Folklore Approach to the Space of Western Macedonia (1998), Historical Geography of Western Macedonia: The Settlement Network 14th-17th Centuries (2011) and (with E. P. Dimitriadis) Historical Geography of Thrace in 19th Century (2021). He has edited nine (9) collective volumes such as: (with E. P. Dimitriadis and A.-F. Lagopoulos) Historical Geography: Roads and Crossroads of the Balkans from Antiquity to the European Union (1998), (with D. Drakoulis) Historical Geography of Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean (2012), (with D. Drakoulis) Historical, Social and Urban Analysis of Space: Tribute to Professor Evangelos Dimitriadis (2014), (with E. Gavra and K. Gioufi) Culture and Space in the Balkans (2015), Homelands of Romeosyni: Tribute to Professor Athanasios E. Karathanasis (2018).
Ηe has engaged in mountain hiking and photographing Greek nature and traditional architecture and has showcased his work in more than ten photography exhibitions.
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second half of 19th and early 20th century
During the latter half of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century up to 1914, the Ottoman Empire was passing through a period characterised by decline and backwardness vis-à-vis the Europeans powers, by attempts at modernisation as well as by European economic penetration. The geographical area of Asia Minor occupied the heartland of the Ottoman Empire, and consequently this held a pivotal position as regards transportation between the European part of the Empire and that of the Middle East. In this transport hub, marine transportation played a crucial role, which was carried out by ships, initially sailing vessels and afterwards steamers. This paper examines the port-cities of Asia Minor from the mid-19th century until 1914 in terms of the position they held in the marine transportation network. Specifically, the town-ports are pinpointed on the map through an examination of the historical sources of the period. These sources are used as parameters that characterise the economic significance of the ports and, therefore, their ranking on the marine network. An attempt is made to determine the principal and the secondary port-cities network as well as to approach their historical development in the period in question and examine their relationship to the land transport network.
One of the most famous mason-villages of western Macedonia is Vythos (before 1927 Dolos) in the municipality of Voio (before 1927 Anaselitsa). Based on quantita-tive data of 1914-1915, we conclude that, among the other villages with people who worked as wandering stone masons of Voio and Grevena (map 1), Vythos was the third, in absolute number of masons and the second in percentage of masons in the total number of male inhabitants. Wandering mason groups from west Anaselitsa trav-eled to Peloponnese to work (mostly building houses), from the last decades of the 19th century until the Second World War. Their travels lasted from two to ten con-secutive years. In this paper, the geographical dispersion of masons from Vythos to Peloponnese from 1885 to 1939 is investigated, through three historical sources: a ma-son's notebook, another's memoirs and local newspaper articles.
The masons from Vythos worked in 83 places in Peloponnese (time period 1894-1937), as follows:
Prefecture of Corinth 11 settlements
Province of Argos, prefecture of Argolida 26 settlements
Province of Nafplio, prefecture of Argolida 3 settlements
Province of Kynouria, prefecture of Arcadia 13 settlements and a monastery
Province of Mantineia, prefecture of Arcadia 13 settlements
Province of Gortynia, prefecture of Arcadia 1 settlements
Province of Lacedaemon, prefecture of Laconia 9 settlements
Province of Gythio, prefecture of Laconia 2 settlements
Prefecture of Messinia 3 settlements
Prefecture of Ileia 1 bridge
Most of these settlements are in the east Peloponnese, in the area from Corinth to Gythio (map 2). Masons from Vythos were not found in the Argolic peninsula, east of the Corinth - Nafplio line. They are not, also, found in the province of Gortynia (ex-cept one village). They worked in both, lowland villages, like the Argolic plain, the Arcadian plateau and the valley of Evrotas, and hilly areas, as well as in mountainous and isolated villages.
Additional information is provided about the hard life of the wandering masons: they were not payed by the contractor in some cases, they suffered from malaria, and, sometimes, they married in Peloponnese and settled there. It also seems that some young boys from the villages where the masons worked, who wanted to become ma-sons, apprenticed in mason groups from Vythos.
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που κατοίκησαν τον μικρασιατικό χώρο και τις γειτονικές περιοχές καθώς και τις εθνολογικές και πολιτισμικές επιρροές τους. Περισσότερο από το μισό του βιβλίου αναφέρεται στη νεότερη περίοδο (20ός αι.), στην οποία συντελέστηκε η εθνική ομογενοποίηση της Μικράς Ασίας εκ μέρους των Τούρκων, που είναι και το επίκεντρο της έρευνας. Η μελέτη της διαχρονικής γεωγραφικής εξάπλωσης του ελληνικού και του αρμενικού στοιχείου της Μικράς Ασίας, καθώς και της διαδικασίας εξαφάνισής του αποτελεί ειδικό ερευνητικό στόχο του συγγραφέα. Κύριο χαρακτηριστικό της μεθοδολογίας του είναι
ότι θέτει και πραγματεύεται ιστορικο-γεωγραφικά ερωτήματα. Πρόκειται για μια ενδελεχή και συνολική μελέτη του ευρύτερου μικρασιατικού χώρου, που κινείται στο γνωστικό πεδίο της ανθρωπογεωγραφίας και αξιοποιεί τη μακρά και πολύτιμη επιστημονική εμπειρία και βαθιά ιστορική γνώση του συγγραφέα για τον χώρο αυτό.
second half of 19th and early 20th century
During the latter half of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century up to 1914, the Ottoman Empire was passing through a period characterised by decline and backwardness vis-à-vis the Europeans powers, by attempts at modernisation as well as by European economic penetration. The geographical area of Asia Minor occupied the heartland of the Ottoman Empire, and consequently this held a pivotal position as regards transportation between the European part of the Empire and that of the Middle East. In this transport hub, marine transportation played a crucial role, which was carried out by ships, initially sailing vessels and afterwards steamers. This paper examines the port-cities of Asia Minor from the mid-19th century until 1914 in terms of the position they held in the marine transportation network. Specifically, the town-ports are pinpointed on the map through an examination of the historical sources of the period. These sources are used as parameters that characterise the economic significance of the ports and, therefore, their ranking on the marine network. An attempt is made to determine the principal and the secondary port-cities network as well as to approach their historical development in the period in question and examine their relationship to the land transport network.
One of the most famous mason-villages of western Macedonia is Vythos (before 1927 Dolos) in the municipality of Voio (before 1927 Anaselitsa). Based on quantita-tive data of 1914-1915, we conclude that, among the other villages with people who worked as wandering stone masons of Voio and Grevena (map 1), Vythos was the third, in absolute number of masons and the second in percentage of masons in the total number of male inhabitants. Wandering mason groups from west Anaselitsa trav-eled to Peloponnese to work (mostly building houses), from the last decades of the 19th century until the Second World War. Their travels lasted from two to ten con-secutive years. In this paper, the geographical dispersion of masons from Vythos to Peloponnese from 1885 to 1939 is investigated, through three historical sources: a ma-son's notebook, another's memoirs and local newspaper articles.
The masons from Vythos worked in 83 places in Peloponnese (time period 1894-1937), as follows:
Prefecture of Corinth 11 settlements
Province of Argos, prefecture of Argolida 26 settlements
Province of Nafplio, prefecture of Argolida 3 settlements
Province of Kynouria, prefecture of Arcadia 13 settlements and a monastery
Province of Mantineia, prefecture of Arcadia 13 settlements
Province of Gortynia, prefecture of Arcadia 1 settlements
Province of Lacedaemon, prefecture of Laconia 9 settlements
Province of Gythio, prefecture of Laconia 2 settlements
Prefecture of Messinia 3 settlements
Prefecture of Ileia 1 bridge
Most of these settlements are in the east Peloponnese, in the area from Corinth to Gythio (map 2). Masons from Vythos were not found in the Argolic peninsula, east of the Corinth - Nafplio line. They are not, also, found in the province of Gortynia (ex-cept one village). They worked in both, lowland villages, like the Argolic plain, the Arcadian plateau and the valley of Evrotas, and hilly areas, as well as in mountainous and isolated villages.
Additional information is provided about the hard life of the wandering masons: they were not payed by the contractor in some cases, they suffered from malaria, and, sometimes, they married in Peloponnese and settled there. It also seems that some young boys from the villages where the masons worked, who wanted to become ma-sons, apprenticed in mason groups from Vythos.
που κατοίκησαν τον μικρασιατικό χώρο και τις γειτονικές περιοχές καθώς και τις εθνολογικές και πολιτισμικές επιρροές τους. Περισσότερο από το μισό του βιβλίου αναφέρεται στη νεότερη περίοδο (20ός αι.), στην οποία συντελέστηκε η εθνική ομογενοποίηση της Μικράς Ασίας εκ μέρους των Τούρκων, που είναι και το επίκεντρο της έρευνας. Η μελέτη της διαχρονικής γεωγραφικής εξάπλωσης του ελληνικού και του αρμενικού στοιχείου της Μικράς Ασίας, καθώς και της διαδικασίας εξαφάνισής του αποτελεί ειδικό ερευνητικό στόχο του συγγραφέα. Κύριο χαρακτηριστικό της μεθοδολογίας του είναι
ότι θέτει και πραγματεύεται ιστορικο-γεωγραφικά ερωτήματα. Πρόκειται για μια ενδελεχή και συνολική μελέτη του ευρύτερου μικρασιατικού χώρου, που κινείται στο γνωστικό πεδίο της ανθρωπογεωγραφίας και αξιοποιεί τη μακρά και πολύτιμη επιστημονική εμπειρία και βαθιά ιστορική γνώση του συγγραφέα για τον χώρο αυτό.