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Matsouki (Greek: Ματσούκι, Aromanian: Matsutsli, Matsusli)[2][3] is a village and a former community in the Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality North Tzoumerka, of which it is a municipal unit.[4] The municipal unit has an area of 35.360 km2.[5] Population 274 (2021).

Name

Local tradition derives the toponym from the villagers gouging out the eye of a terrible giant on the opposite mountain with a matsouki ‘club’ or they drove away the Ottomans who came to plunder the village with clubs.[2] The toponym is derived from the word matsouki meaning a ‘stick, club’.[2] The term matsouka is found in medieval Greek and borrowed from the Venetian mazzoca.[2] In Aromanian the forms of the word are măčĭucă and mațucă, in Romanian maciucă and Albanian macuk/ë, –a, all meaning ‘the shepherd’s staff’.[2] In relation to the village, matsouki refers either to livestock breeders or a once local pseudo-doctor nicknamed Matsoukas, from matsouka ‘shepherd’s rod’ and used in a local phrase ‘Matsoukas from the goats became a doctor’.[2]

Linguist Kostas Oikonomou wrote the use of the word in the plural singular in the Aromanian form of the toponym is also valid, Matsouts/-li derived from the plural măčĭuțe of the Aromanian noun măčĭucă.[2] Oikonomou also states the origin of the locality from the surname Matsoukis cannot be ruled out by transformation into a neuter analogous to the gender of the words village, estate and so on.[6] The surname Matsoukis was formed, as above, the personal name Matsoukas.[6]

Demographics

Matsouki has an Aromanian population and is an Aromanian speaking village.[7][3] In the early 21st century, elderly people were bilingual in the community language and Greek, whereas younger residents under 40 might have understood the community language but did not use it.[8]

References

  1. ^ “Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού – Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό” [Results of the 2021 Population – Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Oikonomou 2002, p. 186.
  3. ^ a b Koukoudis, Asterios (2003). The Vlachs: Metropolis and Diaspora. Zitros Publications. p. 82. ISBN 9789607760869. another group of Vlach villages… Matsouki (Matsúsli)
  4. ^ “ΦΕΚ B 1292/2010, Kallikratis reform municipalities” (in Greek). Government Gazette.
  5. ^ “Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)” (PDF) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-21.
  6. ^ a b Oikonomou 2002, p. 187.
  7. ^ Oikonomou 2002, pp. 2, 186.
  8. ^ Oikonomou, Kostas E. (2002). Τα οικωνύμια του νομού Ιωαννίνων. Γλωσσολογική εξέταση [The oikonyms of the prefecture of Ioannina. A linguistic examination] (PDF) (in Greek). Nomarchiaki Aftodioikisi Ioanninon. pp. 2–3. ISBN 9789608316010. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 November 2024.