Mavrovo (Greek village)

Mavrovo (also Mavrobo) was a village in Greece near Kastoria on the shores of Kastoria lake which was in existence at least from 1380http://www.pahh.com/mavrovitis/ch2/chapter2b.html] and is denoted, under the name "Mavrobo", in the British Baldwin & Craddock Map of Greece which was published on 1 January 1830 (printed by a printer at 47 Paternoster Row, London).http://www.pahh.com/mavrovitis/maps/map03.html]

The name "Mavros", together with the name "Krepeni", is found in a title deed executed by Nicholas Bagas Baldovin of Serbia.Nicholas K. Moutsopoulos, Kastoria, the Virgin of Mavriotissa (Athens: Friends of Byzantine and Ancient Monuments of Kastoria, 1967), 85. Cited in http://www.pahh.com/mavrovitis/ch2/chapter2b.html]

History

In the end of the 18th century the patriarch of the Mavrovitis family moved his people from the nearby Krepeni village to Mavrovo in order to avoid a plague pandemic, and it is believed that people were frequently moving between Krepeni and Mavrovo.

The Monastery of Mavriotissa, originally named "Mesonisiotissa" (meaning "in the middle of the island"), was built near the village.

Mavrovo had a historical relationship with both the Mavriotissa monastery as well as with the nearby village of Krepeni.

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