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Periphery: Thessaly
Prefecture Trikala, Aithikes Municipality (Dimos Aithikon / Ethikon)
Gardiki (older form Gardikion) is a village, population 361 (2001) of the municipality Aithikes in the Trikala Prefecture (in the Western part) of Greece's Thessaly region. Gardiki is a mountain village (alt. c. 1050 - 1100 m) on a side of the Tzoumerka mountainm c. 81 km from Trikala The village is mentioned in documents , first time in the year 1454, as Gardik, Vlachogardik, Gardiki.. Its Vlachic name is Gardisti, derived from Gardou (fortress). History A titular see of Thessaly. Cardica is a Latinized medieval form for Gardicium, the true Greek name being Gardikion. It figures only in later "Notitiae episcopatuum" of the twelfth or thirteenth century as a suffragan of Larissa. Lequien (II, 979) mentions five Latin Bishops of Cardica, from 1208 to 1389, the first being Bartholomew, to whom many letters of Pope Innocent III are addressed. Lequien was unacquainted with any Greek bishop of the see. Manuscript lists, however, contain eight names. They are: John, 1191-1192; Metrophanes, degraded in 1623; Gregorius or Cyrillus, 1623; Sophronius, 1646-1649; Gregorius, about 1700; Meletius, 1743; Paisius, eighteenth century; Gregorius, about 1852. When Thessaly was united with Greece (1881) the see had been vacant since 1875. It was suppressed in 1899, and Gardikion, commonly Gardiki, is now but a little town with about 3000 inhabitants in the Diocese of Phthiotis.
Churches : Koimisis tis Theotokou (Religious festival 15 August), Profitis Ilias (Ai Ilias, Religious festival 20 July)
Gardiki is part of the synonymous municipal district
Paliochori (older form Palaiochorio), also known as Kerasovo. www.gardiki.gr The official site.
Gardiki Google Earth
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