Cities, Towns and Villages in the North Aegean - Cities, Towns and Villages in the Chios Prefecture, Cities (Paperback)


Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 138. Not illustrated. Chapters: Cities, Towns and Villages in the Chios Prefecture, Cities, Towns and Villages in the Lesbos Prefecture, Cities, Towns and Villages in the Samos Prefecture, Mytilene, Agiasos, Kotsinos, Nea Koutali, Psara, Myrina, Greece, Agios Efstratios, Mithymna, Agia Paraskevi, Lesbos, Kalloni, Plomari, Evdilos, Eresos, Kalliopi, Greece, Petra, Lesbos, Oinousses, Chidira, Karlovasi, Karkinagri, Loutropoli Thermis, Vathy, Samos, Moudros, Pythagoreio, Agios Kirykos, Mastichochoria, Kardamyla, Neochori, Chios, Omiroupoli, Mantamados, Polichnitos, Eresos-Antissa, Kornos, Greece, Evergetoulas, Amani, Greece, Gera, Greece, Kampochora, Atsiki, Raches, Agios Minas, Ionia, Chios, Marathokampos, Kokkari, Faros. Excerpt: Agiasos - Pictue Of Virgin MaryThe history of the village (pop. 2,498 in 2001 census) is identified with the history of Panayia of Ayasos (the Greek word for Virgin Mary of Agiasos). Turning the pages of time 1,200 years back we pause in the Byzantine Era, toward the end of the 8th century during the time of the wars on icon. In Constantinople, Aghathon the Ephesian, priest of the Chapel of the Palaces, who was an iconophile, falls into the disfavour of Emperor Leo I and is self-exiled to Jerusalem. In the early 802 b. C. Aghathon hears that Empress Irene of Athens, who is also an iconophile, lives in exile on Lesvos island. Wishing to meet her and be nearer to Constantinople, he sets off for Lesvos, taking with him an icon of Panayia I Vrefokratousa (Madonna and the Holy Infant), a Silver Cross with wood from the True cross, a manuscript Gospel, and other relics. He arrives on the island. Meanwhile, Irene of Athens has died. Aghathon, follows the current of a stream and reaches a remote wooded area which is a safe environment in which to stay. This site in Carya where the chapel of Zoodochos Pigi (the l...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 138. Not illustrated. Chapters: Cities, Towns and Villages in the Chios Prefecture, Cities, Towns and Villages in the Lesbos Prefecture, Cities, Towns and Villages in the Samos Prefecture, Mytilene, Agiasos, Kotsinos, Nea Koutali, Psara, Myrina, Greece, Agios Efstratios, Mithymna, Agia Paraskevi, Lesbos, Kalloni, Plomari, Evdilos, Eresos, Kalliopi, Greece, Petra, Lesbos, Oinousses, Chidira, Karlovasi, Karkinagri, Loutropoli Thermis, Vathy, Samos, Moudros, Pythagoreio, Agios Kirykos, Mastichochoria, Kardamyla, Neochori, Chios, Omiroupoli, Mantamados, Polichnitos, Eresos-Antissa, Kornos, Greece, Evergetoulas, Amani, Greece, Gera, Greece, Kampochora, Atsiki, Raches, Agios Minas, Ionia, Chios, Marathokampos, Kokkari, Faros. Excerpt: Agiasos - Pictue Of Virgin MaryThe history of the village (pop. 2,498 in 2001 census) is identified with the history of Panayia of Ayasos (the Greek word for Virgin Mary of Agiasos). Turning the pages of time 1,200 years back we pause in the Byzantine Era, toward the end of the 8th century during the time of the wars on icon. In Constantinople, Aghathon the Ephesian, priest of the Chapel of the Palaces, who was an iconophile, falls into the disfavour of Emperor Leo I and is self-exiled to Jerusalem. In the early 802 b. C. Aghathon hears that Empress Irene of Athens, who is also an iconophile, lives in exile on Lesvos island. Wishing to meet her and be nearer to Constantinople, he sets off for Lesvos, taking with him an icon of Panayia I Vrefokratousa (Madonna and the Holy Infant), a Silver Cross with wood from the True cross, a manuscript Gospel, and other relics. He arrives on the island. Meanwhile, Irene of Athens has died. Aghathon, follows the current of a stream and reaches a remote wooded area which is a safe environment in which to stay. This site in Carya where the chapel of Zoodochos Pigi (the l...

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September 2010

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978-1-158-12685-9

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