Agia Sofia, Lemnos
| Agia Sofia Αγία Σοφία |
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 Agia Sofia
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| Coordinates | 39°50′N 25°20′E / 39.833°N 25.333°ECoordinates: 39°50′N 25°20′E / 39.833°N 25.333°E |
| Government | |
| Country: | Greece |
| Region: | North Aegean |
| Regional unit: | Lemnos |
| Municipality: | Lemnos |
| Municipal unit: | Moudros |
| Population statistics (as of 2001) | |
| Village | |
| - Population: | 61 |
| Other | |
| Time zone: | EET/EEST (UTC+2/3) |
Agia Sofia (Greek: Αγία Σοφία) is a settlement in the Greek island of Lemnos. It is in the municipal unit of Moudros. In 2001 its population was 61.
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[edit] Nearest places
[edit] Population
| Year | Settlement population |
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| 1924 | 277 |
| 1961 | 161 |
| 1991 | 80 |
| 2001 | 69 |
[edit] History
The village was first mentioned for the first time in 1313 in a document.
The origin of the name comes from a nearby monastery.
The tradition wanted the main settlement built westward in the area of Paltiomand(t)ra (Παλιόμαντρα) which it had stuff. It was near Skidi Bay of the Moudros Gulf and founded in the middle of the village. It is appeared only in the deepest remains of the rocky cliffs known as the Straves Skales (Στραβές Σκάλες).
In the area mentioned the place on several maps as a settlement near the Corfos or Carfos Gulf: Thevet, (1554), Belon (1588), Piacenza (1685), anonymous (1685), Dapper (1688) and Choiseul-Gouffier (1785). It was later unmentioned,
The name Agia Sofia on a map was mentioned for the first time in 1785 by a map of Choiseul-Gouiffier in an old location. Conze in 1858 which opposited from the banks of Skala which meant on the map of the current location. In which m, the metaphor in favoured the tradition was made to elevate between 1785 and 1858 and probably to the late 18th century, when it had exalted by pirates.
The resettling occurred in a common location not measurably, mainly from a pirate route from the Psarians during the times of a marriage It made for a tightened-pirate area which mentioned Sathas slightly after the Orlov Revolt, Its residents still lifted the rocks from the older houses and rebuild newer ones. The main inhabitants were seven to ten families, of around 35 people. The remainder moved to Skandali in wihhc it was close to their properties of the estate.
[edit] Medieval period
Medieval ruins were had in other two locations around the area
- Parthenontos, west of the village from which its inhabitants moved to Skandaki
- Agiomarnos, east of the village, near the coast excluding the rubble.
[edit] Ottoman period
Slowly, the village grew. In 1857, 73 men ages 18 to 60 paid 2,336 gros to attend the military. It had 35 families in 1863 and had 74 houses in 1874. Its safety from the remembrance of pirates remained and drove the inhabitants to build several houses that was known as moursa, an only construction which never mentioned in other villages across Limnos.
[edit] Modern period
Agia Sofia finally joined the rest of Greece after the Balkan Wars of 1912. In 1918, (Law 116 A) which formed the municipalities and communities, Agia Sofia became a settlement of the community (now a municipal district) of Fissini. Along with Skandali were known as the Villages of Skalas from the homonymous nearby medieval bank and its inhabitants were known as Skaliotes.
Agia Sofia had 277 inhabitants in 1982, it had 1991 in 1961 and 55 in 2001. It ran a one-system public school in 1919 and its residence in 1924 with bedrooms for students. In 1972, it united the Kaminia school in 1972.
In Athina runs the Agia Sofia Union with important contributions with several works in the running of traditional things, as is with the four Rachiotes Myloi.
[edit] Paradeisi
In the area of the village, the Paradeisi (Greek, Modern: Παραδείσι) is a hill of 286 m elevation, in southeastern Lemnos. In its banks finds several rocky tree barks, it has honeycombs, it was kept by bunnies and others. For that large part, it had mostly in the protected areas. From the top where it has many views of the entire eastern Lemnos up to Cape Plaka.
It was known as the Hermaeon Mountain () during the Homeric times in which it was elevated with fire during the fall of Troy and from there onto mainland Greece.
The mappers and sourcers which mentioned the hill as the Poseidon or Neptune hill (Colle di Nettune) (Porcacchi, 1572), Neptunius Collis (Ortelius, 1589 and Mercator, 1607 and 1630). The name Paradeis' (Paradis) was first mentioned on a map of Joseph Roux (1764) and later on a map by Conze (1858). Hauttecoteur (103) and Fredrich (1904) and mentioned separately as the two hills of Panagia (273 m) and Paradeissi (286 m).
[edit] See also
[edit] Sources
- Antonis Diakoumos O tops pou pligosame (Ο τόπος που πληγώσαμε)
- Belitsos, Theodoros, Lemnos and its villages by Th. Belitsos 1994.
- Lemnos/Limnos Province CD Rom (Cdrom Επαρχείου Λήμνου = CD Rom Eparcheiou Limnou): Lovable Lemnos
- Belitsos, Theodoros: Historic route in Lemnos: Livadochori, Lemnos Newspapers, p 531 (June 10, 2008).
