A barley variety.
Name - Origin
Cypriot name of food
Αλόκοπον. Alókopon.
Greek name - description
Αλόκοπον.
Barley variety, cultivated in Cyprus, with long and sparse straws and coarse grains (Great Encyclopedia of Cyprus, vol. 1, entry αλόκοπον,το, 349).
Additional information and bibliography
Bibliography
Pavlides A. (ed.) (1984), Great Encyclopedia of Cyprus, vol. 1, Filokypros, Nicosia.
Researcher/Recorder
Kyriaki Panteli, Argyro Xenophontos
Foods
Cereals and bread in the 18th century.
"On food", a report by Archim. Kyprianos (1788) in his book "Ιστορία Χρονολογική της Νήσου Κύπρου" (Chronological History of the Island of Cyprus) on the types of cereals that were cultivated and…
Foods
Cereals, production and import in the 19th century
Demand and prices of wheat, barley and rice in 1884.
Foods
Foodstuff paid as tax (dekati)
Dekáti (decatía) was the payment to the authorities of one tenth of all the produce that a farmer produced in a year. Such products were wheat, barley, grapes, olives, sesame, tobacco, cotton, silk,…