I have tried, to the extent that it is possible, to record the history of Stratsiani, the former name of the Tower of Konitsa, hoping to awaken the memory and emotion of the people. "I will teach nothing, I will remind" (of Epicurus). That is, I will teach nothing, I will awaken memory, Mnemosyne, the mother of the Muses.
The first fire that lit the hearth of the cabins was in the settlement of Selloi and at Antikklisi. The location was above the banks of Sarantaporos, on the ancient paths. By reading and studying the books of the learned people of Epirus, as well as those from the neighboring villages in the Mastorochoria, one can find that the same proper names also exist.
Over time, the proper names became in the memory of the elders place names, e.g., Sellio in Stratsiani, Sellio across in Molista, in Pournia, in Kastanian, in Fourka, Old Sellio in Smolika, two place names in Asimohori, Sellio in Pyrsoyanne, Sellio in Voubian, in Seltsi-Oxyá, in Lykorrachi, in Zerma-Plagia.
The elderly remember that to the west in the villages of Pogoni, along the banks of Thyami-Kalamás, there were proper names of Sellio, as well as the present village that bears the name Sellio, outside of Argirokastro. From the oracle of Dodona, the Acrokeraunian mountains, to Sellio of Vermio, unfolds the path that led to the Pelasgian Samothrace.
