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PALEFYTO (Small town) GIANNITSA
At a short distance from the current position of the village there
was the Bey's lodgings and all around it there were the shacks of the Turkish,
who were in his hire. Until 1920 Lozanovo, such as Palefyto was named, belonged
to the community of Kadinovo and it had 202 residents, mostly shepherds. In 1922
refugees from Kydia of Prousa
(Asia Minor) came to the area, chased from the Turkish, after the disaster of
Smyrna.
Tradition wants the residents of Kydia and the other eight villages
that were beside the lake, to descend from captured families of Mani. The news
that they received in 1922 for the coming of the Turkish, lead them southwest,
to the ports of Smyrna. But, at their way, happend to meet a very beautiful woman
on a horse, who prevented them to continue and so they made for Panormos.
Some said that she was the daughter of pasha of the area, others said that she
was the Virgin Mary that saved them from certain slaughter. Recent researches
confirm the existence of the Sultana, who was christian because of her Serbian
lineage.
The exchange of the population between Greece and Turkey in 1924,
led to Palefito the residents of Petrohori, a village in the Chataltza area in
Eastern Thrace. In the beggining, the conditions were unbearable and the cohabitation
was difficult. However, their common aim for survival, set aside all the differences
and the devotion of all the residents to the cultivation of this fertile land,
improved Palefyto.
This text is cited May 2005 from the Municipality of Megas Alexandros URL below
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