Konstantinos Ioannis Kalivas

Relocated, possibly due to war, to the village of Minayia (Ambelokipoi Logga) and was a γεωργος, a farmer. Kalyvia or Kalivia is a Greek village in the of the Falaisia Municipality of the Arcadia prefecture located 5 km east of Leontari around 15 km southeast of Megalopoli. Kalyvia is situated in the Alfeios Valley and are made up of forests and farmlands as well. The mountains cover the southeastern portions and are made up of rocks with grasslands and bushes along with a couple of forests and grasses and bushes around the areas. The branch of the Alfeios river lies to the north. Its main production are olives, citrus, fruits, vegetables and other crops. Konstantinos Kalivas was from the Megalopoli-Tripoli area of Arcadia. At the time of the War for Independence from the hated Ottoman Turks (which started about 1821, and lasted for decades), Konstantinos was a young man. The fighting was heavy in this area as the valiant Klephtic warriors battled the infidel Turks to free Greece from 400 years of enslavement and torture. Due to all the fighting he and his two brothers, Andreas and Theodoros fled the area of Tripolis and headed south to the Messenias Region to escape the fighting and start a new life. Konstantinos and Theodoros settled in the tiny village of Minayia, now called Ambelokipoi Logga (Upper Garden of the Grapes)-Pylos. And became successful farming grapes, and currants. AIONIA H MNHMH Children: Maria K Kaliva The Old Fountain in the Ruined and Desolate Roupaki It is here where the family story begins with Triantaphyllos Tserginis (Sergeant), the patriarch in the family tree, who likely commandeered anywhere from a platoon to a half-company size army of local Greeks against the Ottoman Turks in the early 1500s; 300 years before the War for Independence! Roupaki, known before as Kalyvia Kotsika, is a settlement that predates 1200 A.D. Its sister village Tourkoleka is only about one mile southwest of it. In the first Ottoman census of 1462/3, Roupaki is registered as an all-Greek village with 21 houses. Tourkoleka is registered as a hamlet with 5 houses. Roupaki was abandoned in 1532, after the Turks pillaged it.