Plikati
village in Ioannina, Greece
Plikati (Greek: Πληκάτι, Albanian: Plikat) is a village in the municipal unit of Mastorochoria, Ioannina regional unit, Greece. It is one of the northernmost villages in Epirus. The village architecture is of stone houses with slate roofs, some either two or three storeys in height.
Name
In the regional geographical literature of the early 19th century, Athanasios Psalidas and Kosmas Thesprotos wrote the name of the village as Pelikati. The toponym is derived from the Albanian root pellg(u), meaning 'swamp, marsh', and in a geographical context refers to a 'basin'. The suffix -ati is used to indicate inhabitants of a place or the names of family members; thus, the toponym initially as Pellgati indicated 'inhabitants of the basin'. The basin in the area of Plikati was formed by the Gorgopotamos river, a tributary of the Sarantaporos river.
The placename underwent metathesis and became Pllegati, and later Plikati after the Albanian g became k through Greek. The linguist Kostas Oikonomou described that the Aromanian rendering of the toponym plicat, -tă meaning 'bend', derived from aplec and ultimately from Latin plicare, is linguistically closer to the name, but he discounted it due to the absence of settlement by Aromanian speakers both in the past and the modern period in Plikati.
Geography
The village is situated at the foot of the Grammos mountains, at 1,240 m elevation, close to the Albanian border.
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