Diapori, Lemnos

Diapori (Greek, Modern: Διαπόρι), older forms: -o and -on, accented form: Diapóri is a small fishing village in the Greek island of Limnos and the municipality of Nea Koutali 3 km south of Tsimandria. Its 2001 population was 474 for the village and the municipal district.

Location and name

Diapori brings in an uncleaned Ancient Greek name dia (δια) and poros (πόρος), entrance. Situated in a narrow sandy isthmus that runs 400 to 800 m in which connects the mountainous peninsula of Fakos with the rest of Lemnos. The west coast of the isthmus features the port of Kontias, and the east the Moudros Gulf.

In 1785 on a map of Choisseul-Gouffier, the western port was known as Port Saint Antoine (Port Agios Antonios = Saint Anthony) and in the peninsula of Fakou had a mountain named Mt. Saint Antoine (Mount Agios Antonios = Saint Anthony). The mountain name was extended to the Moudros and lately as Agios Antonios predimonated to be known as Moudros Gulf in French maps including one from Villoison (1785) and Lacroix (1848). It has a church in the area of Selino (Σέλινο) in Tsimandria.

History

It was known that it was supposed to be the back of the isthmus it was not always as large as Fakos and was an island. And that part of the ground was low and one that became one of the alluvium of the torrent. It had an ambiguous relation with Riodio, sophist of Nikostratos which he lived in the 2nd century AD, that Fakos was an island with a fortress. On a map with precarious chronology that added with the Buondelmonti's work (1419), it had relation that Fakos was an island with the name S. Antoyne (Agios Antonios = Saint Anthony). Fakos was a small is and in a 1588 map, that was read in Belon's third book.

The isthmus of Diapori imagines as much captured as the 1785 map of Choiseul-Gouffied, it threw an idea that cut off the link as much as sourcing the Moudros gulf and Kontia.

Modern history

Near Kontai on the Vourlidia coast on the Moudros gulf, the landing of the Greek army which liberated Lemnos on October 8, 1912. The Greek soldiers welcomed the inhabitants in the nearby villages of Kontias and Tsimandria and lead them to the Vathy lagoon that headed to the island capital of Kastro and liberated the island.

Refugees settled in Diapori in 1923 with a few families from Tenedos which fell to the Turks.

Today

Diapori has a nearby harbour in Tsimandria. Today it is a silent port with fishing boats that has beautiful fish taverns and tourists visit the area every summer. The shallow lagoon that dries during the summer and has a remarkable water-type, and features phoenix birds, herons, ducks, etc.

See also

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

Sources

• Lemnos/Limnos Province CD Rom (Cdrom Επαρχείου Λήμνου = CD Rom Eparcheiou Limnou): Lovable Lemnos

External links

• Diapori at the GTP Travel Pages

Coordinates: 39°51′17″N 25°10′24″E / 39.85472°N 25.17333°E / 39.85472; 25.17333