LA POPULATION DE NAUPLIE AU XIXE SIÈCLE. DE LA VILLE CAPITALE À LA VILLE DE PROVINCE
THE POPULATION OF NAUPLIA IN THE 19TH CENTURY. FROM A CAPITAL CITY TO A PROVINCIAL TOWN

Summary/Abstract: Located at 147 kms from Athens, in the heart of the Argolid plaine, Nauplie, Nafplion in Greek, is also known as Anapli, a seaside town from the north East of Peloponnese, built on a rocky peninsula and washed by the Argolid Gulf. The town of Nauplie represents a remarkable case of study for a historian as we are dealing with the former capital of the independent Greek state from 1830 to 1834, until it became a provincial town once the state capital was transferred to Athens. This rank in the administrative hierarchy of the Kingdom had a great deal of influence on its demographic evolution and also on the structure of its population. Besides, Nauplie has at its disposal wide archive resources, a rare asset in Greece. It should be noted that a variety of key resources such as population census, civil or religious registries, the dimotologia also known as citizens’ registries and even polling lists remain underexploited. The potential exploitation of these last resources can enable to explore the demographic history of this town of Nauplie.

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