Appendix B - Coding Protocols

Summary

VILLAGES

The Argolid (a distinct part, in 1940, of the Argolidokorinthia prefecture) is subdivided into three counties: Argos, Nafplía, and Ermionidotrizinía. To recall, I studied the counties of Argos and Nafplía, which in 1940 included two municipalities (the administrative capital, Nafplio, and the market center, Argos) and fifty-eight “communes” (koinotites) (of which nineteen included more than one settlement). The total number of “villages” studied is sixty-one. I arrived at this number in the following way. First, I included all communes save two, Tracheia and Adami, which are located in the extreme east of Nafplía county and are closely connected with the villages of Ermionidotrizinia. Second, I counted as villages all hamlets that lacked administrative autonomy if their population exceeded 200 people. There were seven exceptions to this rule. On the one hand, I included one hamlet with a population of less than 200 (Amigdalitsa) on grounds of distance and relative political independence; on the other hand, I excluded four hamlets with a population of (slightly) more than 200 (Houtaleika, Aghios Dimitrios, Sterna, and Kalamaki) on similar grounds: they were, then, organic parts of the commune's central village, under which I subsumed them. Table B.1 provides basic descriptive data for all villages, Table B.2 provides information about the six ecological clusters, and Table B.3 lists the independent variables of the villages used in multivariate tests. Finally, Table B.4 provides a list of the out-of-sample test villages from across Greece used to check the validity of the sample from the Argolid.