Koupaki, Phocis


Koupaki or Koupakio is a Greek village in the municipal unit of Vardousia, in northwestern Phocis, west of the Mornos dam and 5 km from Krokyleio, the former seat of Vardousia. The population was 48 in the 2021 census.

Geography

The village lies at over altitude.

History

Koupaki is referred to as a distinct community for the first time around 1800 by the French Historian and traveler Charles Pouqueville, who refers to the village as Copaki.
Towards the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, a large number of young men from Koupaki headed for the New World. Many of them worked in building the railway network in America.

Book

The village is featured in the book "Better Dead Than Divorced: The Trial of Panayota" by Lukas Thanasis Konandreas which describes the murder of his father's cousin Panayota Nitsos by her abusive husband in the 1950s and her family's efforts to bring the murderers to justice. The book won the 2015 Bronze Nonfiction Book Award.