- Dimosia, Lemnos
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Dimos(s)ia (Greek: Δημοσιά), accented form: Dimo(s)siá was an agricultural settlement in the Greek island of Limnos, in the municipality of Moudros and the municipal district of Kontopouli. It was mentioned in the Byzantine times.
History
Dimossia is located north of Kontopouli, slightly northward from the agricultural village of Agios Alexandros. It was mentioned in 1415 as ai Dimosiai (αι Δημοσίαι).
It was later ruined and into the mid-19th century, it was inhabited along with the northern part of the island, north of Kontopoulo. In 1858, the German traveller Conze founded a farmed area in a large part of the fields between Kontopoli and cape Plaka without any settlement. It had only isolated groves, the remainder were administered by a ciflik and the whole fields were part in residents of Agios Ypatios and Kontopouli.
When the estates passed into Christian ownerships, several resettle into new settlements. One of them was Dimissia. For the first time listed on Fredrich's 1904 map. Several years later, it had some people, in 1961, it was an independent settlement of the former municipality of Kontopouli with 15 people.
The settlement was deserted in 1981 and became a part of the settlement of Agios Alexandros
Today, it has two chapels, Saint George and Saint James.
See also
- List of places in the Lesbos prefecture
Sources
- Vassiliki Tourptsoglou-Stefanidou: Journeys and Geographic Sources of the Island of Lemnos (15th-20th Centuries)
- Belitsos, Theodoros, Lemnos and its villages by Th. Belitsos 1994.
- Lemnos/Limnos Province CD Rom (Cdrom Επαρχείου Λήμνου = CD Rom Eparcheiou Limnou): Lovable Lemnos
Municipal unit of Atsiki Municipal unit of Moudros Fisini · Kalliopi · Kaminia · Kontopouli · Lychna · Moudros · Panagia · Plaka · Repanidi · Roussopouli · Romano · SkandaliMunicipal unit of Myrina Municipal unit of Nea Koutali 
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