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Pedino () is a community on the
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island of
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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.


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
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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-
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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 (), colloquially Ai Stratis (), anciently Halonnesus or Halonnesos (), is a small Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea about southwest of Lemnos and northwest of Lesbos. The municipality has an area of 43. ...
were struck by a severe earthquake in February 1968. 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.


See also

*
List of settlements in the Lemnos regional unit This is a list of settlements in Lemnos (regional unit), Lemnos regional unit in Greece: * Agios Dimitrios, Lemnos, Agios Dimitrios * Agios Efstratios * Agkaryones * Atsiki * Dafni, Lemnos, Dafni * Fisini * Kalliopi, Greece, Kalliopi * Kallithea, ...


References

*''Lemnos/Limnos Province CD Rom'' (''Cdrom Επαρχείου Λήμνου'') *
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, Η Λήμνος και τα χωριά της = ''Lemnos And Its Villages'', 1994 {{Lemnos div 1968 establishments in Greece Populated places in Lemnos Populated places established in 1968