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

 village 20 km ENE of Myrina
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...

 in the municipal unit of Moudros
Moudros
Moudros is a town 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 covers the entire eastern peninsula of the island, with a land area of 185.127 km²,...

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

. Its 2001 population was 365 people. It is located in the northeast of the 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...

. Its elevation is 30 m.

Nearest places

  • Kontopouli
    Kontopouli
    Kontopouli is a settlement in the northeastern part of the Greek island of Limnos, in the municipal unit of Moudros. Its 2001 population was 661 for the village and 703 for the municipal district. Its total area is around . The vicinity was founded from a tiny characteristic farming settlement....

    , east (distance: 3 km)
  • 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...

    , east
  • Romanos, south (distance: about 2 to 3 km)
  • Lychna
    Lychna
    Lychna is a Greek settlement 25 km ENE of Myrina in the municipality of Moudros, Lemnos island, Greece. Its 2001 population was 132 people...

    , southwest
  • Varos, west (distance: 3 to 4 km)
  • Kotsinos
    Kotsinos
    Kotsinos is a settlement on the island of Lemnos, Greece. It is part of the community of Repanidi, and the municipal unit of Moudros, and situated 25 to 30 km ENE of Myrina...

    , north (distance: 2 km)

Population

Year Population
1928 639
1981 393
1991 302
2001 365

History

The village was first mentioned as Repanidion in 1285 in a census record. Pteris (Πτέρις) or 'Pterin (Πτέριν) was a monastery in Lemnos near 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...

. Between all those had a chapel known as Odigitrias. Repanidi had a total of 28 parishes in which it had in all of Lemnos.

In 1418, Buondelmonti mentioned the village as Rapagnidi (Ραπανίδι) and was located in the outer part of the island. The next mentioning was Belon in 1548 in which he visited the island for several days and presented the realization of nearby paths in Hephaestia and the hill of the Lemnian land. It mentioned repeatedly as Rapagnidi and that mentioned on a map written in 1588. It wrote it founded a nearby port known as Ekato Kefalon (Εκατό Κεφαλών = The Hundred Heads) in which it was mentioned in a 1588 map as Ecato Cephales.

Eqaton Cephales was also mentioned in Buondelmonti in 1418 in Hephaestia hill. Its port was founded and was used during the years of Piri Reis in 1521, in which it was mentioned in the map as Limãn-i-jüz baš (Port of Ekato Kefalo). Belon tried as in Repanidi lost six rifles on Kotsinos
Kotsinos
Kotsinos is a settlement on the island of Lemnos, Greece. It is part of the community of Repanidi, and the municipal unit of Moudros, and situated 25 to 30 km ENE of Myrina...

 hill and three was a port, when he was fishing with a hook and a net.

That information that mentioned as the village was not located in a present day location and was founded near Agios Ypatios
Agios Ypatios
Agios Ypatios is a settlement in the Greek island of Limnos, it is in the municipal unit of Moudros and the community of Kontopouli. The population was 13 in the 2001 census. It is located ENE of Myrina and is connected with a road linking to the southern, central and western portions of the...

. Near the village founded its only forest in Lemnos, it contained beech and oak trees, the fruits which was used for skin production. In 1611, it was mentioned that the pirates plundered a sailboat with 13 sailors in which they were headed from Limnos to Samothrace
Samothrace
Samothrace is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. It is a self-governing municipality within the Evros peripheral unit of Thrace. The island is long and is in size and has a population of 2,723 . Its main industries are fishing and tourism. Resources on the island includes granite and...

, its information did not receive when it was raided. Several raids occurred until today in the area.

The village was also mentioned: by a doctor, Albacario, (late 16th century) as Raponidi in which he was travelling to the Lemnian land, on the map of Choiseul-Gouffier (1785), Herpagni, from Lacroix (1820) as Rapanidi and from Conze in 1858 as Drepanidi. The last one did not found the same village with Agios Ypatios, when it was mentioned in English maps of the time. Here it has the sources, even the 1858 map which was mentioned, in these old maps which mentioned even Anypati. The movine did not happen and became much older during the beginning of the 19th century.

Conze visited the port's spring of the Lemnian land and walked next to the bumps, a jar which was scaled in a rock (vine), in which left the must for boiling before it was poured into the barrel. He used in an ancient tomb-like vessel that came from Hephaestia, he asked a cafe customer in the village, Anagnostis Papasavvas. Later it was sold to the Louvres
Louvres
Louvres is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France.-References:** -External links:* * *...

. As Drepanidi which was written in the maps of De Launay in 1898 but Fredrich's 1904 map mentioned correctly as Repanidi.

Name

In older sources as Repandion and Rapanidi (Ραπανίδι), it was known from the 13th to the 16th centuries and founded in a communal census from the 19th century with its forms: Repanidi, Rapanidi, Ropanidi, Repanidi (Ρεπανήδι, with an eta in the first i) and Repanidi. Its village name derived from a plant known as a radish, it meant it derived from a plant name.

Some different sources which it had for some times stated (from creeping in a scythe of the oak) did not made it. Its alternate forms of the name which drove into erroneous etymologies, in which it said in weakness of the travellers that brought correctly the name which was known from the main parts of its inhabitants. The writer Drepanidi of Conze and De Launay drove takingly from an alternate form "st' repanid", Herpagni which was known in the map of Choisseul-Gouffier derived from an illiterate "Erpanid'" in which is famous as from other villages: "Ormanou - Romanou" and "Orospoul - Rossopouli".

19th century

From Repanidi descands Athanasios Repanidiotis in which he had an adventurous life. In the mid 19th century, the village was organized. In 1844, its local council which belonged to the city for resulted sources from the island's judge ran and counselled the village Nikolas Plafas. In the village had a school which was opened in 1830-20, mainly in the building featured a windmill and later some pots from Kotsinos
Kotsinos
Kotsinos is a settlement on the island of Lemnos, Greece. It is part of the community of Repanidi, and the municipal unit of Moudros, and situated 25 to 30 km ENE of Myrina...

. In 1875, the school building was built and in 1879, the school became communal. It was two-tear and became a five-tier in 1912.

In 1854, the village priest was named Giorgos. In 1856, 147 men ages 18 to 60 paid 4,704 gros for their enlistment in to the army, in 1863 and in 1874, 94 Christian families went under population stagnation. In 1874, it had 118 houses, its sourced was educated from a rural volume, though to the late 19th century, it mentioned ship owners from Repanidi including Meleounis (Μελεούνης).

In the final years of Turkish rule, it opened a post office in which survives a note with the date 16-9-1912 and the place name REPANIDI (MOUDOS), one of the village that belonged to the old municipality of Moudros. Repanidiotes received a member into the regional council.

Modern years

During the interwar year, the village had a small growth. In 1928, the population was 639 people and in 1931 built a new school building with the funding by the Repanidioiti Council of the USA "Agios Georgios", in which employed a pickle company by Savvas Papadopoulos and Georgios Hadjiandoniou. It ran until 1990 in which it united with the school in Kontopouli
Kontopouli
Kontopouli is a settlement in the northeastern part of the Greek island of Limnos, in the municipal unit of Moudros. Its 2001 population was 661 for the village and 703 for the municipal district. Its total area is around . The vicinity was founded from a tiny characteristic farming settlement....

. From 2006, the school building runs as a Children's Educational Factory.

The new monastery of Saint George or Agios Georgios began to be built in 1928, which was completed in 1948. It is built out of stone with marble decorative sources and the builder which was known as Vassilis Kafkis (Βασίλης Καυκής). Its residents praised Angelis Michelis in a small historic-folklore member which was written in 1934:

"Οι κάτοικοι του Ρεπανιδίου άπαντες σχεδόν είναι κτηματίαι ευσεβέστατοι, με απλούστατα και πατριαρχικά ήθη και έθιμα. Από την γυναίκα ποτέ δεν λείπει το άσπρο φακιόλι, οι δε άνδρες ονειδίζονται από τους κατοίκους των πέριξ χωρίων διότι δεν εφόρουν ζωνάρια. Οι Ρεπανιδιώται είναι εις άκρον φιλοξενώτατοι, εις άκρον διασκεδαστικοί και δεν υστερούν εις τα εθνικά δημώδη τραγούδια."

"Its residents of Repanidi... ...From the ladies which never said from the white letter... ...cultural folk music.

After World War II, immigration strangled the village, its population declined until the 1980s and it was 302 in 1991. The village has a small hotel and rented rooms. It runs a cultural council and once had a soccer club AO Repanidiou. In Athens it has a council with a remarkable actions.

From Repanidi descends the writer Kostas Zafiriou (Κώστας Ζαφειρίου), who wrote a book Paramythia gia tin Aithaleia kai alles istories (') Patras 2004, which is inspired from Limnos.

Μεταπολεμικά η μετανάστευση έπληξε το χωριό, με αποτέλεσμα ο πληθυσμός του να μειώνεται συνεχώς και το 1991 να απογραφούν μόνον 302 κάτοικοι. Στο χωριό υπάρχει ένα μικρό ξενοδοχείο και ενοικιαζόμενα δωμάτια. Λειτουργεί πολιτιστικός σύλλογος, ενώ παλιότερα υπήρχε και ποδοσφαιρικός, ο Α.Ο. Ρεπανιδίου. Στην Αθήνα υπάρχει σύλλογος αποδήμων με αξιόλογη δράση.

Από το Ρεπανίδι κατάγεται ο νέος συγγραφέας Κώστας Ζαφειρίου, του οποίου το βιβλίο "Παραμύθια για την Αιθάλεια και άλλες ιστορίες" (Πάτρα 2004) είναι εμπνευσμένο από τη Λήμνο.

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