Maps of Power

Vlahishta

Begin 01.01.1476
End 31.12.1476

Properties

ID 116199
System Class Place
Case Study Ethnonym of the Vlachs
Place Deserted Village agridion selište
Historical place Ottoman Empire

Description

Vlahishta was a village in vilayet Keşişlik (today in Serres regional unit in Central Macedonia, Greece). The precise location of the village is unknown. In the Defter of 1476, the village is registered between the villages Shipchani (today called Taxiarches in Drama regional unit in Greece) and Zdravik (current name Draviskos, in Nea Zichni municipality in Serres regional unit in Greece).

Relations

Sources (1)
Name Class Description
Defter Vilayet Keşişlik 1476 Source Page 358 of the Census conducted during the reign of Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror (1451-1481), most likely in 1476, refers to the village Vlahishta in Vilayet Keşişlik. The village was inhabited by only 3 families, 1 of which was Muslim and the other two Christian. The head of the Muslim family was Yusuf, while the male heads of the Christian families were Dimo, son of Ciokala, and Ayalar Exino.