Livadochori, Lemnos
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Livadochori is a village in the Greek
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 island of Lesbos, 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 474.

Nearest places

  • Karpasi, northeast
  • Kallithea
    Kallithea, Lemnos
    Kallithea is a village in the Greek island of Lemnos, part of the municipal unit Nea Koutali. Its 2001 population was 234 for the village and the municipal district...

    , southeast (distance: 2 km)
  • Agios Dimitrios, west

Population

Year Settlement population Municipal district population
1928 516 -
1951  604 -
1981 266 -
1991 155 -
2001 210 454

Location and name

Livarochori is located in the central portion of the island, right in the area which crosses the road that comes from 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 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 heads into the east of the island.

It is that the name derived from the field which produced, a location that was part of the communal building Mitropolis of the Pallimniako School Office.

With the name Livadochorion and Livatochorion (Λιβατοχώριον) was mentioned in 1355. The village estate was tactically in maps or several tourists, with the name Livadochorio, sourced that indicated during the later part of the century which continued to had the same name. It was intervenously written under Buondelmonti's map in 1318, Belon's map in 1548, Thevet's map in 1554, Coronelli's map in 1695, Choiseul-Gouffier's map in 1785 and Conze's map in 1858.

Geography

Much of the area are barren, farmlands are within the village. The island's airport is 3 km northeast and 5 km by road.

Turkish rule

During the years under Turkish rule, the main village was one of the largest village on the island. Other than the Greeks, the village also had Ottoman
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 agas which relied on their agricultural estates. In 1548, the map of Belon was banked and was part of the area of voivode of the island, in which it summoned in a dinner together with the Ottoman and Greek residents of the area in which it had harmonious plans.

It was not famous that the village is located in the present location, in which the topic traditions in the older period that it was built westward between the two churches, in which an epidemic affected its inhabitants and relocated themselves into a present day location. In 1740, Le Quien mentioned it as a seat.

It was famous that from Livadochori descends the revolutionary leaders Pantelis Marinakis and Apostolos Limnios in which in 1824 and 1825 revolted in the Arcadia
Arcadia
Arcadia is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Peloponnese. It is situated in the central and eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas. In Greek mythology, it was the home of the god Pan...

-Niokastro battledield with his Vasos Mavrovouniotis
Vasos Mavrovouniotis
Vasos Mavrovouniotis was voivode from Montenegro, who played a significant role in the Greek revolution against the Ottoman Empire in 1821.-Life:...

.

In 1858, it was visited by the German archaeologist Conze it which was known it was a large village that was partly ruined. Characteristically written, that with all the village founded a treated orchard. It was the time that the Greek shipowners and revolutionaries began to sell the Ottoman estates and the Ottoman landowners began to settle in the capital Kastro
Myrina, 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 kept it abandoned houses in the village.

From the communal archives in 1854, it was a councilled village. It had 62 enlisted men and were paid 689 gros to leave the army. It had 45 Christian families in 1863 and 55 in 1874, it had 59 houses in the same year. The village was part of the municipality (koli) of Kontia and its inhabitantas received a member from the Pallimniaki provincial council.

School

The school was founded and the students helped in the school which ran by Doukas Palaiologos in nearby Sarpi
Kallithea, Lemnos
Kallithea is a village in the Greek island of Lemnos, part of the municipal unit Nea Koutali. Its 2001 population was 234 for the village and the municipal district...

 from 1868.

Lately in 1894, the school became one-graded (kindergarten) with the first student Iliogotisti Panteli-Kakiadiou (1894–1901), it had several dwellings in 1910, a cafeteria and others.

The building was built by Egyptian-Greeks Sarantis and Palaiologos in 1910 from Kornos and the school was community-run. It became public one-system in 1918 and was marked to a second-level in 1927 until 1970 before it restored its one-level system. It ran up to the 1980s and closed due to a student population decline.

Alumni included Komninos Achiladellis (1914–22), Georgios Karagiannis (1932–39), Maria Antonaki (1933–45), Haralamboa Vafeas (1939–63), Spyros Moustakas
Spyros Moustakas
-Biography:Moustakas was born in Livadochori on the island of Lemnos in 1914. He was the only child of his parents, Panagiotis and Fanio. He attended the village's public school and Lemnos High School...

 (1941, 1950–63), Stella Konstantinou (1947–70), Fani Moustaka, etc.

Between the wars

After Livadochori and the island finally joined the rest of Greece as a result of 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...

, it became an independent community in 1918, in which it intensely for some years and with the settlements of Strati (abolished from 1928) and Kourouni (from 1940, was part of the community of Lera.

In the years between the two World Wars, the village saw a small growth. It built a water spring in 192 with a house donated for 200,000 drachmas by the brothers Nikolaos and Komninos Halamandaris and Livadochori Assistane in America and Egypt and Managers of the Residents according to a written epigraph.

It had 516 inhabitantas in 1928, between the time, it had a few refugees, employed mainly in the agricultural sector and cotton production. In its fields, it produced 480,000 tons of wheat and 30,000 tons of cotton. It ran its flour and a cotton factory.

The school was a two-level system and attended 46 boys and 54 girls. From 1929, it established in the village, doctor Evangelos Komninos which it produced other than his birthplace in Kalliopi which he studied in Athens
Athens
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 in Patras
Patras
Patras , ) is Greece's third largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens...

.

In the summer of 1931 received the soccer blub Olympia Livadochori in which it had two important wins without thearea of Thriamvos Thriamvos with 3-0 and Keravnou Atsiki
Atsiki
Atsiki is a village and 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 is located in the northern central part of the island and has a land area of...

 with 3-2, with the coaches Labadarios, Stavrinos and Dandoudis.

Post-war and modern period

After the war, the village declined dramatically due to emigration to larger towns and cities as well as developed nations. It had 604 inhabitants in 1951, it fell to 26 in 1981 of which 63 were inhabitants of neighboring Poliochni, in which it was written as an independence community. Along with Poliochni in 2001, Livadochori had 474 people and had a stable population.

Other than the lack of men, the village continued to accept communicated junction, it has a gas station, an amusement park and hotels. Parallel, it has an office with cobblestone roads, the stone-built houses and a beautiful square. In 1989, it opened the Livadochori High school in which brings in students from central Lemnos.

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
  • Belitsos, Theodoros: Historic route in Lemnos: Livadochori, Lemnos Newspapers, p 531 (June 10, 2008).
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