Limnos Tourist Guide

According to the local tradition the place name Panagia predates the village and came from an old monastery. By the mid-19th century on the northeast Limnos between the village Kontopouli and the cape Plaka there wasn’t any villages. There were only a few isolated huts that belonged to the Turkish agads of Anypati . Panagia was founded around 1865 by residents of Agios Ypatios and Kontopouli who had estates in the area. As the first settlers are considered , Katogoudis Comninos , Ioannis Lagos , Emmanuel Paximadas , Dimitrios Tsagdis and Ioannis Kechagias. The site “Panagia” was chosen, where it was the old Byzantine monastery at the foot of the hill " Alepotrypes ' , probably because it was approximately the same distance from the western and eastern coasts, thus providing greater security.

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