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Panorama of Theologos from 1957

Theologos (Greek: Θεολόγος) is a village in the central part of the Greek island of Thasos. According to the 2011 census, it has 636 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.[1]

References

  1. ^ 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)