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MYTILINI (Ancient city) LESVOS
Methymna, the second town in Lesbos, was under a democracy, Mytilene under an oligarchy
CHIOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
Pherecydes says concerning this seaboard that Miletus and Myus and the parts round Mycale and Ephesus were in earlier times occupied by Carians, and that the coast next thereafter, as far as Phocaea and Chios and Samos, which were ruled by Ancaeus, was occupied by Leleges, but that both were driven out by the Ionians and took refuge in the remaining parts of Caria.
Abantes from Euboea came to the island
LEMNOS (LIMNOS) (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
Expelled from Lemnos by Pelasgians. As the greater part of the Argonauts were descended from the Minyae, they are themselves called Minyae. The Minyae founded a colony in Lemnos, called Minyae, whence they proceeded to Elis Triphylia, and to the island of Thera
MYTILINI (Ancient city) LESVOS
The greatest and most famous and most visited precinct is that which is called the Hellenion, founded jointly by the Ionian cities of Chios, Teos, Phocaea, and Clazomenae, the Dorian cities of Rhodes, Cnidus, Halicarnassus, and Phaselis, and one Aeolian city, Mytilene.
SAMOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
It is cited that the first inhabitants of the island were the Carians and the Leleges. Settlers were the Cephallenians or the Ithacias under the leadership of Angeus. The Ionians from Athens under the leadership of Nileus banished in the 11th c. B.C. the old inhabitants and colonized the island.
Pherecydes says concerning this seaboard that Miletus and Myus and the parts round Mycale and Ephesus were in earlier times occupied by Carians, and that the coast next thereafter, as far as Phocaea and Chios and Samos, which were ruled by Ancaeus, was occupied by Leleges, but that both were driven out by the Ionians and took refuge in the remaining parts of Caria.
LESVOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
In Lesvos, the customs and the traditions are undoubtedly connected with religion. In all religious celebrations, old customs revive: traditional dishes and sweets are prepared, carols and other songs fill the streets and other traditional festivities are organised. In fact all significant events in people’s lives such as birth, wedding and baptism are linked to one or another custom. In the recent years local cultural societies offer a lot to the effort to record and revive old customs since they are an indistinguishable part of the Lesvian identity.
This text is cited May 2003 from the Prefecture of Lesvos URL below, which contains images.
Lesvian music, songs and dance were influenced by the Greek inhabitants of the Asia Minor. Folk music groups accompanied by dancers dressed in traditional costumes - even today - give a unique tint of joy and authenticity to all Lesvian celebrations: at festivities and local fetes, at weddings, and national holidays. It’s worth-noticing that even today the traditional musical instrument “santouri” (a type of dulcimer), present in every local musical composition, is still made in Lesvos. Typical traditional dances are the “Lesvian”, the “Mytilenean” and the ”Ballos“ and they all display the spirited makeup of the Lesvian soul and its love for free expression
This text is cited May 2003 from the Prefecture of Lesvos URL below, which contains images.
The visitor of Lesvos can see typical samples of the local costume at many Folk Art Collections on the island. A characteristic element of the Lesvian costume - both male and female - is the "vraka" (large breeches). The male costume is completed by a white or black shirt, a black vest, black cap - "katsoula"- and black shoes. The female one, in which the colourful "vraka" could be replaced by a long silk skirt, is completed by a shirt and vest, while on the head the colorful "tsemberi" (Kerchief) is worn. In festive days dresses embroidered in golden thread or hand woven silks were used. Heavy fur coats (patatoukes) and woolen jackets were typically worn in winter
This text is cited May 2003 from the Prefecture of Lesvos URL below, which contains images.
VAROS (Village) LEMNOS (LIMNOS)
Around 1916, a sudden illness struck Varos. It was named plaque and
many people died. During this great confusion a woman of the village dreamt of
Saint Charalambos who advised her to spin thread in one day from cotton which
was cultivated in the area and to use this thread to surround the village. The
next day, all the women of the village did exactly what the Saint said and the
village was saved from the epidemic. From then on, every year during Lent, the
women gather in a large area, spin thread which is made in triple pieces and make
thirteen balls of thread. The procession starting from the church is led by the
minister of the village and a woman holding the balls of the one-day thread. At
the small church of Saint-Charalambos they stop first for prayers and they continue
by surrounding the village with the thread.
(From Lemnos Newspaper)
CHIOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
The Chians, also, say that the Pelasgians from Thessaly were their founders. But the Pelasgian race, ever wandering and quick to migrate, greatly increased and then rapidly disappeared, particularly at the time of the migration of the Aeolians and Ionians to Asia. (Strabo 13.3.3)
LESVOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
Their leader was Xathus, king of Troizen.
IKARIA (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
CHIOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
On Chios and Tenedos a man was torn in pieces as a sacrifice to Dionysos
Indeed, after the Lacedaemonians, the Chians are the only people that I have known who knew how to be wise in prosperity, and who ordered their city the more securely the greater it grew. (Thucydides 8.24.4)
MITHYMNA (Ancient city) LESVOS
Methymna, the second town in Lesbos, was under a democracy, Mytilene under an oligarchy
SAMOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
The three greatest works of all the Greeks were engineered by them (Samians).
The third Samian work is the temple, which is the greatest of all the temples of which we know; its first builder was Rhoecus son of Philes, a Samian.
(Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) 3.60.1)
Perseus: Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley, 1920)
LESVOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
In the 14th c. B.C. Their leader was Macaras, whose daughters gave their names to important cities of the island and also his son-in-law, Lesvus, gave his name to the island.
During the Troyan War. By that time Achilles conquered the island and took with him Diomede, daughter of Phorbas, king of the island.
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