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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

• http://www.dimos-meg-alexandrou.gr/english/pale_is...