Theologos, Thasos

Community in Greece

Potamia Ποταμιά
Community
Panorama of Theologos from 1957
40°39′36″N 24°41′29″E / 40.6599°N 24.6915°E / 40.6599; 24.6915
Country	Greece
Administrative region	Eastern Macedonia and Thrace
Regional unit	Thasos
Municipality	Thasos
Population (2021)^[1]
• Community	1,548
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Theologos (Greek: Θεολόγος) is a village and a community in the central part of the Greek island of Thasos. According to the 2021 census, it has 1,548 residents. It was the marketplace and administrative centre of the island during the Ottoman rule, from 1455 to 1902.

History

In the Ottoman tahrir defter (number 75) of 1519, the settlement was recorded as a village with the name Tologo.^[2]

References

^ "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.
^ Ünal, Uğur; Budak, Mustafa; Bayram, Sabahattin; Yıldıztaş, Mümin (2013). Özkılınç, Ahmet; Coşkun, Ali; Sivridağ, Abdullah (eds.). Osmanlı Yer Adları: I - RUMELİ EYALETİ (1514-1550) (in Turkish). Ankara, Türkiye. pp. VII–VIII, 22, 794. ISBN 9789751962386.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)