This article discusses the military and symbolic functions of the dapia or Bohemund’s trench, which surrounded the town of Ioannina and its outs¬kirts. The dapia formed an important fortification, at the time of Ali Pasha of Ioannina, having been constructed at different times between the late 18th century and 1820. In the mid-19th century, the dapia was accredited to the Norman Bohemund (11th c.), an erroneous attribution which was propagated until the late 20th century by scholars and amateur historians of the town. In addition to its military function, the dapia subsumed a symbolic dimension, which proved to be more powerful than its defensive role. In later years, and the 20th century in particular, its real function waned and only the symbolic one remained. The latter would surface in the everyday speech of the inhabitants of Ioannina, and was used to express social relations. The everyday speech of the town’s inhabitants therefore exploited an aspect of the structured space, in order to signify social relations and cultural differentiation. The dapia delimited the urban area and segregated it from the countryside. Both at a true and at a symbolic level, it signified two different worlds, which remained in communication and interdependency
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Ήπειρος (Ελλάδα)--Ιστορία--Ιωάννινα
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Τάπια (ή Ντάπια, ο προμαχώνας)
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Δωδώνη: Τεύχος Πρώτο: επιστημονική επετηρίδα του Τμήματος Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής του Πανεπιστημίου Ιωαννίνων; Τόμ. 36-37 (2007-2008)
Greek
Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων. Φιλοσοφική Σχολή. Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας
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Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων. Βιβλιοθήκη και Κέντρο Πληροφόρησης
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University of Ioannina
