Dimini
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Dimini
Διμήνι | |
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UTC+3 (EEST ) |
| Period | Sesklo culture |
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| Followed by | Eutresis culture |
Dimini (Greek: Διμήνι; older form: Diminion) is a village near the city of Volos, in Thessaly (central Greece), in Magnesia. It was the seat of the municipality of Aisonia. The name Aisonia dates back to ancient times and it is the westernmost place in the Volos area. The Dimini area contains both a Mycenean settlement and a Neolithic settlement. The Neolithic settlement in Dimini was discovered near the end of the 19th century and was first excavated by the archaeologists Christos Tsountas and Valerios Stais.
The palace of ancient
Population
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1981 | 1,608 | — |
| 1991 | 1,956 | +21.6% |
| 2001[3] | 2,149 | +9.9% |
| 2011[4] | 2,279 | +6.0% |
| 2021[1] | 2,102 | −7.8% |
History
Neolithic
Dimini culture is well known for its abstract painted vessels. Dimini ware is characteristic of the Later Neolithic period in eastern Thessaly, although it was traded and imitated outside the region and has been identified as far away as Cakran in Albania.
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Clay vase with polychrome decoration, Dimini, Magnesia, Late or Final Neolithic (5300-3300 BC). Ceramic; height: 25 cm (93⁄4 in.), diameter at rim: 12 cm (43⁄4 in.); National Archaeological Museum (Athens) -
Dimini plate, National Archaeological Museum (Athens) -
Terracotta base and lower body of a vessel; 3800-3300 BC; terracotta; length: 7.5 cm (215⁄16 in.); Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) -
Terracotta rim fragment with latticework design; 3800-3300 BC; terracotta; length: 10.6 cm (43⁄16 in.); Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Terracotta rim of a bowl; 3800-3300 BC; terracotta; length: 12.8 cm (51⁄16 in.); Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Antiquity
In 1886, Lolling and Wolters excavated the
The "invasion theory" states that the people of the Neolithic Dimini culture were responsible for the violent conquest of the Sesklo culture at around 5000 BC. Moreover, the theory considers the "Diminians" and the "Seskloans" as two separate cultural entities. However, I. Lyritzis provides a different story pertaining to the relations between the Dimini and the Sesklo cultures. He, along with R. Galloway, compared ceramic materials from both Sesklo and Dimini utilizing thermoluminescence dating methods. He discovered that the inhabitants of the settlement in Dimini appeared around 4800 BC, four centuries before the fall of the Sesklo civilization (ca. 4400 BC). Lyritzis concluded that the "Seskloans" and "Diminians" coexisted for a period of time.
See also
- Boian culture
- Butmir Culture
- Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
- Funnelbeaker culture
- Gumelniţa–Karanovo culture
- Hamangia culture
- Karanovo culture
- Lengyel culture
- Linear Pottery culture
- Sesklo culture
- Starčevo culture
- Tisza culture
- Varna culture
- Vinča culture
- Helladic chronology
- Mycenaean Greece
- Neolithic Greece
- Old Europe
- Sesklo and Dimini fortifications
Notes and references
- Notes
- References
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ "Scientists trace the trail of Argonauts". Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-09-11.
- ^ "Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation)" (PDF) (in Greek). National Statistical Service of Greece. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-09-21.
- ^ "Απογραφή Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2011. ΜΟΝΙΜΟΣ Πληθυσμός" (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority.
External links
Media related to Dimini at Wikimedia Commons
- Hellenic Ministry of Culture: Dimini
- Metis: Dimini
- Photos of the Dimini settlement, Magnesia (in Greek)
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