Location information

LIPARO (Village) GIANNITSA
  There is based information for the existence of the settlement of Liparo in 1357 from the recording that took place in the years of the Byzantine Empire by the name Liparino and 210 houses. The settlement was in the area "Beker", where there is a tomb of the Macedonian years. In 1840 the near river Moglenitsas overflowed causing great disaster and the drowning of babies. So, the settlement was translocated in the present position of 10 metres elevation. At that time, in the village there were 15 Greek and 500 Turkish families.
  The name "Beker" is the Turkish name of the name Dimitrios. The local tradition reports that Dimitrios was a Greek christian, servant of the Turkish Bey. He was proposed to change his religion because he was said to perform miracles and there was a fear for revolution of the christians. Dimitrios refused and the Turkish killed him. They burried him in that area and untill today it is believed that the soil of his grave helps people with dermatological diseases etc.
  The time of 1928-30 there were placed into the village refugees from the Black Sea area and in 1935 Vlachs came from Aetomilitsa of Epirus. Liparo, by the name Liparinovo or Barinovo and 154 residents formed the community of Kadinovo in 28-6-1918, with the villages of Prisna, Plougar, Kariotissa, Losanovo and Kadinovo. Later, it consisted a community with the villages of Dafni and Agios Georgios, untill 1967, when it became an independent community.

This text is cited May 2005 from the Municipality of Megas Alexandros URL below

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