Angariones

Angariones or Agaryones (Greek: Αγγαριώνες), accented forms: Angariónes and Agaryónes is a village in the Greek island of Limnos, and is the seat of Nea Koutali. Its 2001 population was 138 for the village and the municipal district.

Nearest places

*Livadochori, northeast
*Nea Koutali, east
*Neo Pedino, southeast
*Portianou, south
*Agios Dimitrios, northwest

Population

Location

Angariones is connected with a paved and a poor road that is 2 km from Pedinobetween 12 and 13 km east of Myrina and is connected with the southern branch road linking Myrina and its airport.

History

Byzantine period

The village was first mentioned in 1396 and was known as Kariones (Καριώνες), its origin of the name may come from the walnuts but there are no walnuts in the area.

As Agrionis which was known by Conze under the map and paper of 1858. The location fo the village in a small height which has a nice view of the Moudros Golf which sat in an outer watchtower that were used by the Byzantines.

The name

On a small hill, the "Paliokastro" fortress survives several rubbles of the tower which had arms during the Orlov Revolt in 1770, the fortresses Angariones Vigles ( Αγγαριώνες Βίγλες). The next, its name derives from the "angaron pyr" ("άγγαρον πυρ") the lime fire. which moved the locals in orfer to receive mainly those stuff.

In the communal writings of the 19th century and afterwards, the village was recognized as "Angariones" and until 1940 was known as "Agkaryones" (Αγκαρυώνες).

19th century

Together with the runnung of the village and the education of the residents, the student Angelis Mihelis said:

"The village that was represented from those during the fall scared the population of Palaiokastro"

Except for Laktovoidi, Turkish cifliks which bought the island traders that had in the area: "Kentra" (owned by G. Dimitriadis), "Paliokastro", (passed to the municipality), "Kolynara" [] (a portion as a municipality, owned by Apolistolis Angarionitis) and "Koukos" (a shop of Emm. Kokkinaras).

From the communal archives that were known in 1854, Angarionas was councilled as a settlement. It had 25 families in 1862, it slowly rose to 28 in 1874, it has a small population growty, the saem time had 31 houses and was descended from the town hall of Kontias. It has a small population.

Modern history

Angariones was finally joined the rest of Greece after the Balkan Wars in 1913. In 1918, Angarines did not countil a community other than the settlement of the community of Tsimandria and in 1919, Porianou. It was declared an independent community in 1928 with only 15 inhabitants, the remainder of the population with the settling of the refugees and .

It grew to 45 in 1945. It ran works, planted trees and so on. A beautiful springs was created in 1924 from the red rock with the coat of Karpassino, Tsepeli, etc. It opened its first school in 1923 and ran as a one-grade system until the 1980s. It built its first doctorate in 1924 with the work of its inhabitants and the expence of the state and the relatives in the USA by Georgios and Haralambos Vrontsa or Tsakizou.

During the late 1960s, the village saw a rise as well as the cotton industry. It built a new school building in 1962.

It grew to 242 in 1951 and lost to 202 in 1961. Emigration occurred in the village after World War II and the Greek Civil War, its 2001 population was 138. It runs tavers which has several bedrooms today.

ee also

*List of places in the Lesbos prefecture
*Administrative divisions of the Lesbos prefecture

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"

External links

* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=8125 Angariones at the GTP Travel Pages]
*Map and aerial photos:
**Street map information from: [http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=39.894&longitude=25.16&zoom=6 Mapquest] , [http://local.live.com/mapz.aspx?&lats1=39.894&longs=25.1546&alts1=35 LiveLocal] or [http://maps.google.com/maps?||=39.894,25.16 Google] or [http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?lat=39.894&lon=25.174&mag=2 Yahoo! Maps]
**Satellite
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*Kontias coordinates are: coord|37|53|45|N|21|10|36|E|type:city(138)_region:GR