Pedino ( el, Πεδινό) is a community on the

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Lemnos Lemnos or Limnos ( el, Λήμνος; grc, Λῆμνος) is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Lemnos regional unit, which is part of the North Aegean region. The p ...

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. It consists of the villages Vounaria, Neo Pedino and Palaio Pedino, and the uninhabited island Alogonisi. It is part of the municipal unit of

Nea Koutali Nea Koutali ( el, Νέα Κούταλη) is a municipal unit 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 sma ...

. In 2011 its population was 268.

Geography

Pedino is situated in the central part of the island of Lemnos, west of the gulf of Moudros. It is 1.5 km southwest of Nea Koutali, 1 km northeast of Portianou and 11 km east of Myrina. The small uninhabited island Alogonisi, in the gulf of Moudros, has an area of 286 hectares and a perimeter of 2,895 m.

Population

History

Under the older name Pesperagou (Πεσπεράγου), the village was mentioned in the late 14th century. The origin of the name is unknown. One theory is that it could come from a Turkish landowner named Pesper-Aga. But the name predates the Turkish invasion of Lemnos. In 1955 Pesperagou was renamed to Pedino after the plain in which the village is built.Name changes of settlements in Greece
/ref> In 1856, Pesperagou had 57 men who paid 782

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to avoid conscription. The village had 40 families in 1863 and 37 in 1874. In the same year, it had 44 homes and was part of the municipality (koli) of Kontias. Between 1918 and 1921, hundreds of

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s were settled in the area between Pedino and Portianou. They lived under harsh conditions, and 292 people died during the influenza epidemic of 1920-21. They are buried in a Russian- Cossack cemetery by the coast. Pesperagou became a separate community in 1919. Its population began to rise, it had 230 inhabitants in 1928 and 300 (with 60 houses) in 1938. Its inhabitants produced wheat and cotton. The islands of Lemnos and

Agios Efstratios Agios Efstratios or Saint Eustratius ( el, Άγιος Ευστράτιος), colloquially Ai Stratis ( el, Άη Στράτης), anciently Halonnesus or Halonnesos ( grc, Ἁλόννησος), is a small Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea abo ...

were struck by a severe earthquake in February 1968.Aftershocks of February 19, 1968 earthquake in Northern Aegean Sea and related problems
J. C. Drakopoulos and A. C. Ekonomides, Journal of Pure and Applied Geophysics, accessed 10 April 2008 The old village of Pedino (now ''Palaio Pedino'') was destroyed by the earthquake, and most inhabitants were resettled in the new village Neo Pedino, built nearby.

References

*''Lemnos/Limnos Province CD Rom'' (''Cdrom Επαρχείου Λήμνου'') *

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, Η Λήμνος και τα χωριά της = ''Lemnos And Its Villages'', 1994

External links

Pedino at the GTP Travel Pages
{{Lemnos div 1968 establishments in Greece Populated places in Lemnos Populated places established in 1968

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