Kaminia ( el, Καμίνια) is a village in the northeast of the island of
Lemnos,
Greece. It is a community of the municipal unit of
Moudros. From 1918 until 1998, it was an independent community. The population in 2011 was 234 for the village and 243 for the community, which includes the village Vroskopos. It is located in the southeastern peninsula of the island, 5 km east of
Moudros, 6 km northwest of
Fisini
Fisini ( el, Φισίνη) is a village and a community in the southeastern part of the island of Lemnos, Greece. It is in the municipal unit of Moudros. In 2011 its population was 57 for the village, and 107 for the community, which includes the v ...
and 7 km south of
Kontopouli
Kontopouli ( el, Κοντοπούλι) is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Moudros in the northeastern part of the island of Lemnos, Greece. In 2011 its population was 623 for the village and 634 for the community, which includes ...
. Its elevation is about 60 m. Its area is 12.847 km
2,
of which 7.60 km
2 are arable. According to the Köppen climate classification, Kaminia has a Hot-Summer Mediterranean climate(Csa).
Population
History
The village was first mentioned in 1346 in a document of the
Great Lavra monastery on
Mount Athos
Mount Athos (; el, Ἄθως, ) is a mountain in the distal part of the eponymous Athos peninsula and site of an important centre of Eastern Orthodox monasticism in northeastern Greece. The mountain along with the respective part of the penins ...
. During the Turkish rule, all of its residents were Greek. It had 90 families in 1874, and a community school was opened in that year. After the column of Kaminia was discovered in 1885, the village was visited by many tourists.
In the 1920s and the 1930s, excavations by the
Italian Archaeological School
The Italian School of Archaeology at Athens ( it, Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene (SAIA); el, Ἰταλικὴ Ἀρχαιολογικὴ Σχολὴ Ἀθηνῶν) is one of the 19 foreign archaeological institutes headquartered in Athen ...
revealed the prehistoric settlement of
Poliochne
Poliochne, often cited under its modern name Poliochni ( el, Πολιόχνη), was an ancient settlement on the east coast of the island of Lemnos. It was settled in the Late Chalcolithic and earliest Aegean Bronze Age and is believed to be one ...
. A new school building was built in 1932, which was closed in 1994. Many of its residents emigrated after World War II, mainly to
Montreal,
Quebec,
Canada. The inhabitants are mainly farmers and shepherds. At present mainly cereals and wine are cultivated, cotton was grown around 1970.
Localities
Poliochne
The
Bronze Age settlement Poliochne has been excavated near the beach of Vroskopos. It is believed to have been one of the most ancient towns in Europe.
Vroskopos
Vroskopos (also ''Voroskopos'') is a small settlement on the coast, 2 km southeast of Kaminia. It was named after the nearby promontory. A settlement at the site of Vroskopos is evidenced by tombs from the 11th to 13th century. It was first mentioned by Florentine traveler
Buondelmonti Buondelmonti may refer to:
People
*Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Italian monk and traveler
* Esau de' Buondelmonti, medieval ruler of Epirus
*Giorgio de' Buondelmonti, medieval ruler of Epirus
*Giuseppe Maria Buondelmonti, Italian poet, orator and philo ...
in 1418. A fortress was built in the 13th century. In the 15th century the coastal areas, including Vroskopos, were abandoned, but in the late 16th and 17th centuries the port was used again. The castle and the village were probably destroyed around 1656 in the
Fifth Ottoman-Venetian War. Moreover, pirate attacks forced the inhabitants to move to inland villages such as Kaminia. By the 20th century Vroskopos was settled again as the sea port of Kaminia. Tourist facilities were built, and in 2011 Vroskopos had 9 permanent inhabitants.
See also
*
List of settlements in the Lemnos regional unit
This is a list of settlements in Lemnos regional unit in Greece:
* Agios Dimitrios
* Agios Efstratios
* Angariones
* Atsiki
* Dafni
* Fisini
* Kalliopi
* Kallithea
* Kaminia
* Karpasi
* Kaspakas
* Katalakko
* Kontias
* Kontopouli
* Ko ...
*
Lemnos stele
The Lemnian language was spoken on the island of Lemnos, Greece, in the second half of the 6th century BC. It is mainly attested by an inscription found on a funerary stele, termed the Lemnos stele, discovered in 1885 near Kaminia. Fragments of ...
Sources
*Vasiliki Tourptsoglou-Stefanidou: ''Journeys and Geographic Sources of the Island of Lemnos (15th-20th Centuries)''
*
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: ''Lemnos and its villages'', 1994
*Belitsos, Theodoros: ''Kaminia in Lemnos'', 2004 A lot of people who live in Kaminia and Lemnos generally came from Egypt. Kaminia has a mild Mediterranean climate.
References
{{Moudros
Populated places in Lemnos