Dimitsana in the first Ottoman register
The TT 10 register records Dimitsana as a large village of the nahiye of Leondar, with 142 households, 31 unmarried adult men and 13 widows.
Why it matters
The entry gives a rare archival snapshot of Dimitsana immediately after the transition from Byzantine-Morean to Ottoman rule, showing a settlement already large enough to function as a local centre.
In the first Ottoman register for the Morea, Dimitsana appears as Karye-i Dimiçana, a village attached to the has of the mirliva Elvanoğlu Sinan Bey. The same entry places Dimitsana in the nahiye of Leondar, within the early Ottoman administrative structure formed after the end of the Despotate of the Morea.
The register gives 142 hane or households, 31 mücerred or unmarried adult men, and 13 bive or widows. Kayapınar estimates the total population at about 754 people, a large figure for a village of the region and period.