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Tsimandria Community

TSIMANDRIA (Village) LEMNOS (LIMNOS)
Tel: +30 22540 51344
  The village of Tsimandria is referred to as Simandria in 1569. According to tradition, the region once belonged to the Byzantine emperor Ioannis Tsimiskis. The phrase "at the mandres of Tsimiskis" became Tsimandria. Mandra in the local dialect means farmhouse. Ruins of Phtheris - the Byzantines called it Pterion or Pterin - exist in this region. It was a farmhouse belonging to the monastery of Taxiarchis Michael and later to that of Aghios Ioannis of Patmos. Thismandria was the first village in Limnos to be liberated in 1912.
This text (extract) is cited May 2003 from the Lemnos Provincial Government tourist pamphlet (1997).