Lidoriki (,

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: Λιδωρίκιον) is a village and a former municipality in

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. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality Dorida, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. Its area is 409.577 km², covering nearly one-fifth of

. Lidoriki is built on the western slopes of Mount Giona and over the Mornos river valley. It is the centre of the mountains of Dorida.

Location

Lidoriki is located west of Amfissa, northwest of Itea and east-northeast of Nafpaktos. Lidoriki is located above the Mornos artificial reservoir, formed by the Mornos Dam, completed in 1974. The reservoir supplies most of the drinking water used in

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. Lidoriki is also connected to Amfissa via the largest tunnel in Greece with 16.5 km length. This is not a street tunnel, but an aquaeduct for the water from the Mornos reservoir.

History

Lidoriki is attested since the late 9th century in the ''

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'' of the Patriarchate of Constantinople as a bishopric, a

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of the Metropolis of Larissa. From the '' Chronicle of Galaxeidi'' it is known that the area suffered from an outbreak of plague in 1054. After 1204 it became part of the

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until 1327, when it was occupied by the

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. Under Catalan rule it belonged to the County of Salona, and was mostly controlled by the Fadrique family. A castle (''Lodorich castrum'') is attested in the sources in the 14th century, but no trace of it survives. It was captured by the

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under Sultan

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in January 1394, and then by the Despot of the Morea, Theodore I Palaiologos, in 1397, but it was finally conquered by the Ottomans soon after. In 1448, it was visited by the scholar and traveller Cyriacus of Ancona. In 1944, the village was bombarded and burned to the ground by the Nazi occupation forces.

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Lidoriki is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): *Amygdalia *Avoros *Dafnos * Diakopi *Doriko *Kallio (Kallio, Klima, Trividi) *Karoutes *Koniakos *Lefkaditi *Lidoriki *Malandrino *Pentapoli (Pentapoli, Aigitio, Lefka, Palaiokastro, Skaloula) *Perithiotissa * Stilia *Sotaina *Sykia *Vraila

Population

References

{{Authority control Populated places in Phocis Dorida Populated places of the Byzantine Empire Defunct dioceses of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople Lordship of Salona