Poliochni
| Poliochni Πολιόχνη |
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| Location | |
 Poliochni
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| Coordinates | 39°55′N 25°12′E / 39.917°N 25.2°ECoordinates: 39°55′N 25°12′E / 39.917°N 25.2°E |
| Government | |
| Country: | Greece |
| Region: | North Aegean |
| Regional unit: | Lemnos |
| Municipality: | Lemnos |
| Municipal unit: | Nea Koutali |
| Population statistics (as of 2001) | |
| Village | |
| - Population: | 272 |
| Other | |
| Time zone: | EET/EEST (UTC+2/3) |
Poliochni (Greek: Πολιόχνη) is a settlement in the Greek island of Limnos near Livadochori, it is in the municipal unit of Nea Koutali. In 2001 its population was 264.
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[edit] Population
| Year | Population |
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| 1991 | 452 |
| 2001 | 264 |
[edit] History
The origin of the name comes from a hill not far from Livadochori in central Lemnos. With the same name, there is another hill in the area of Kaspakas. None of these two hills has similarity with the archeological site of the prehistoric Poliochne which is located near Kaminia.
Poliochni in Livadochori had ruins from the medieval period. In a firman of 1796, the settlement was known as Ligkouli (Λίγκουλι) or Likoli (Λικόλι) and was ruined for many years.
In a written document of 1881, the rubble on the name Poliochni:
- The village of Likoli is deserted... and
- The area of Likoli is known as (definitely Polichni)...
Lately, Polichni (Πολίχνη) altered its name to Poliochni during the imitation of the prehistoric Poliochne which was excavated in the beginning of the 1930s near Kaminia.
The area was part of the communal estate of the farm area of Mitropolis in which in 1922 upgraded itself to the Pallimniako School Office, which still exists today.
During the interwar years in the hill, it opened a rural school in which was later shut down after the war.
[edit] Early Aegean
Poliochni is an ancient metallurgical center and is linked with many metallurgical myths.[1] The site was abandoned, with no destructive evidence, at the end of the Early Aegean II period.
[edit] Refounding of Poliochni
Posteriorly, the area was resettled and from 1981, it became a settlement of the community of Livadochori.
[edit] See also
[edit] Sources
- Tourptsoglou-Stefanidou Vassiliki, Voyages and Geographical Sources From Lemnos Island (15th-20th Centuries) (Ταξιδιωτικά και γεωγραφικά κείμενα για τη νήσο Λήμνο (15ος-20ος αιώνας) = Taxidiotika ke geografika kimena yia ti niso Limno (15os-20os eonas))
- 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).
- ^ Doumas, Christos G. "Early Helladic II and the Coming of the Greeks", Cretan Studies Vol. V, 1996, p.59
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