Diapori, Lemnos
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Diapori 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.
. 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.
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.
and liberated the island.
Refugees settled in Diapori in 1923 with a few families from Tenedos
which fell to the Turks.
birds, heron
s, ducks, etc.
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
island of Limnos and the municipality of 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...
3 km south of Tsimandria
Tsimandria
Tsimandria is a village on Lemnos, a Greek island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. It is part of the municipal unit of Nea Koutali since the late 1990s. It is close to a few beaches, including Diapori and Alagomandra...
. 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 LemnosLemnos
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...
. The west coast of the isthmus features the port of Kontias
Kontias
Kontias is a village on the Greek island of Limnos, and is the seat of the municipal unit Nea Koutali. Its 2001 population was 566.-Nearest places:The Village of Tsimandria in the eastNevgatis Beach in the westDiapori Habour to the South...
, 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 KastroMyrina, Greece
Myrina is a former municipality on the island of Lemnos, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Lemnos, of which it is a municipal unit. It covers the west coast of the island, and has a land area of 82.049 km², about 17.2% of the island's...
and liberated the island.
Refugees settled in Diapori in 1923 with a few families from Tenedos
Tenedos
Tenedos or Bozcaada or Bozdja-Ada is a small island in the Aegean Sea, part of the Bozcaada district of Çanakkale province in Turkey. , Tenedos has a population of about 2,354. The main industries are tourism, wine production and fishing...
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 phoenixPhoenix (mythology)
The phoenix or phenix is a mythical sacred firebird that can be found in the mythologies of the Arabian, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Chinese, Indian and Phoenicians....
birds, heron
Heron
The herons are long-legged freshwater and coastal birds in the family Ardeidae. There are 64 recognised species in this family. Some are called "egrets" or "bitterns" instead of "heron"....
s, 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