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AGIOS GEORGIOS (Village) GIANNITSA
It's unspecified when the village was founded and what was its Greek
name. Turks called it "Dort Armout", that means Four Pear Trees, probably
because of the four very high trees that there were in the village. Its old position
was at the area known as "Voudolivado". On the road there was a well
known inn belonging to a Palmer from Kastoria,
where all the travelers were welcomed. Its ruins were saved until 1954, when they
were pulled down because of the land distribution. At the current position of
the church of Agios Dimitrios, used to be the lodging of the Albanian Bey and
around of it was built the village by residents of the neighboring settlements.
Because of the bey’s power, which excelled even the Turkish police, in the village
found shelter chased away Christians. Later on, thieves and hoodlums came and
they worked to bey's fields in return to their protection.
An English (1876) as well as a German traveler report the existence
of the village with the inn and the cemetery, which was the only one in the area.
The destruction of the cemetery in 1989 brought into sight a tombstone with the
date "1800" and Greek names. Old people also mention the existence of
three hills of 3 meters height, in 200 meter's distance one from the other. It
is believed that during the Byzantine Empire they were used for the transmission
of information with fire. Two of them are saved until today, of which the one
is destroyed.
200 meters from the village, there was the church of Agios Georgios,
surrounded by towering trees. During the Russian - Turkish war, Turkish reservists
of the neighboring towns, on their way to Andrianoupolis,
stayed in the village. Among the plunder they committed on their way, is also
the destruction of the church in 1877. At that time only a few families lived
in the village, because cholera had decimated the population. Founder of the village
is regarded to be Mr. Papantoniou from the village Notia
of Almopia, who in order to evade islamization went to Valtolivado together with
other Christians from Aridea
and later settled in Agios Georgios.
This text is cited May 2005 from the Municipality of Megas Alexandros URL below
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