Regarding the name of the Agrafa, there are versions that start from ancient times, pass to Byzantium and reach the Ottoman Empire
Agraia Artemis
The most likely version for the name of the area is believed to be the ancient Greek tribe of Agraion, who lived mainly between the river Acheloos and Agrafiotis. The name of Agraion is etymologically derived from the word "agra", which means "hunting".
After all, it is no coincidence that the patroness of Agraion was Agraia Artemis, the goddess of hunting, who is also the emblem of the Municipality of Agrafa.
Konstantinos V
According to another version and the chronicler Michael Psellos, the area acquired its name during the iconoclasm period, when the iconoclast Constantine V was emperor of Byzantium.
Local residents are said to have refused to enforce the decree to remove the images from the temples and killed the emperor's emissaries. Then Constantine, enraged, erased the area from the maps of the Empire.
Resistance to the Turks
The most popular version, however, is the following. The area got its name because of the inability of the Turkish authorities to collect taxes by force, since there was strong resistance from the local population. So they deleted the area from the tax lists, and it was called "Agrafa", that is, not registered in the tax lists.
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