Angariones
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Angariones is a village in the Greek
Greece
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 island of Lemnos
Lemnos
Lemnos is an island of Greece in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Lemnos peripheral unit, which is part of the North Aegean Periphery. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Myrina...

, part of the municipal unit Nea Koutali
Nea Koutali
Nea Koutali is a municipality on the island of Lemnos, North Aegean, Greece. Located in the south central portion of the island with a land area of , it accounts for about 15.9% of the island's area, making it the smallest of the four municipalities on Lemnos...

. Its 2001 population was 138 for the village and the municipal district.

Nearest places

  • Livadochori
    Livadochori, Lemnos
    Livadochori is a village in the Greek island of Lesbos, part of the municipal unit Nea Koutali. Its 2001 population was 474.-Nearest places:*Karpasi, northeast*Kallithea, southeast...

    , northeast
  • Nea Koutali
    Nea Koutali
    Nea Koutali is a municipality on the island of Lemnos, North Aegean, Greece. Located in the south central portion of the island with a land area of , it accounts for about 15.9% of the island's area, making it the smallest of the four municipalities on Lemnos...

    , east
  • Neo Pedino
    Neo Pedino
    Neo Pedino , is a new village on the Greek island of Lemnos, Greece founded in 1968. It is located northeast of Myrina. Its 2001 population was 108 for the village and 331 for the municipal district.-Settlements:*Palaio Pedino...

    , southeast
  • Portianou
    Portianou
    Portianou is a village on the Greek island of Lemnos, located northeast of Myrina. Its population was 276 in 2001.-Population:- The name :...

    , south
  • Agios Dimitrios, northwest

Population

Year Population
1920 15
1945 45
1950 242
1960 202
1981 135
1991 153
2001 138

Location

Angariones is connected with a paved and a poor road that is 2 km from Pedinobetween 12 and 13 km east of Myrina
Myrina
Myrina may refer to:*Myrina, Greece, capital of the Greek island of Lemnos*Myrina , ancient city on the coast of Mysia *Myrina , name of several female characters in Greek mythology...

 and is connected with the southern branch road linking Myrina and its airport.

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 of 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
Byzantine Empire
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.

The name

On a small hill, the Paliokastro fortress survives several rubbles of the tower that had arms during the Orlov Revolt
Orlov Revolt
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 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 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 running 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
Balkan Wars
The Balkan Wars were two conflicts that took place in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe in 1912 and 1913.By the early 20th century, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia, the countries of the Balkan League, had achieved their independence from the Ottoman Empire, but large parts of their ethnic...

 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 expense of the state and the relatives in the USA
United States
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 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
World War II
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 and the Greek Civil War
Greek Civil War
The Greek Civil War was fought from 1946 to 1949 between the Greek governmental army, backed by the United Kingdom and United States, and the Democratic Army of Greece , the military branch of the Greek Communist Party , backed by Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania...

, its 2001 population was 138. It runs tavers which has several bedrooms today.

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
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