The village of Agrosykia is where my father was born, and it is my most and best memories of Greece as well as my family’s home base Greece. In Greek the name means Wild Fig Tree. But it wasn’t always named, Agrosykia, in fact, it acquired its name in as late as 1927.

The event is described in grandfathers biography O Tata:

“The public road from Agrosykia to Goumenissa was paved with limestone at the expense of the state, and its construction took about five years. And there were quite a few Agrosykia residents who worked as laborers for the construction of the road, with a good state salary. The foreman of the entire project was the villager Dimitriadis at the time.

Our village was then called Kourpes, and the Pontians wanted to give it a new name, to call it ‘Chasera’, but there were many objections.
When the construction of the road to Goumenissa reached the river of our village, while cutting down the bushes to make way for the bridge, they found a wild fig tree among the bushes. And then the foreman Dimitriadis said:
—Here! Here we found the name of the village, the new name of the village to call it Agriosykia!…
Despite the distrust and a few protests from some, everyone finally accepted that our village should be officially named ‘Agriosykia’.”

The settlement of Kourpes was officially renamed Agriosykia by a decision published in the Government Gazette 179 A / 30-08-1927. Government Gazette of the Hellenic Republic, Issue A, No 179 (30 Aug 1927), “Περί μετονομασίας οικισμών” – available at: https://www.eetaa.gr/eetaa/metaboles/fek/1927/fek_179a_1927.pdf