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The Metochi in Athens Ioakeim A. Papaggelos 29 October 2011 In 1758 the parishioners of St Demetrius the Younger donated to the Monastery, through the Metropolitan of Athens Anthimos, the Chapel of St Kyriaka. At a later time the neighbouring plot of “300 pace...
The Monastery of the Aghioi Anargyroi near Drama Ioakeim A. Papaggelos 29 October 2011 This was located in the area of present-day Kormista, on Pangaio, and was ceded to Vatopaidi by the Emperor Alexius Comnenus in 108634. It remained in the Monastery’s possession at least until 134835....
The Metochia in Kassandra Ioakeim A. Papaggelos 29 October 2011 On this peninsula the Monastery possessed two basic dependencies: that of Aghioi Theodoroi, also known as the “land of the Lions” 29, and that of Aghios Dimitrios30. The former was most probably locat...
Souflari Ioakeim A. Papaggelos 29 October 2011 This was the property of Saul Modiano of Thessaloniki, from whom it was purchased by the Monastery in 1905. On it was built the large metochi complex - a part of it is still standing today - and the s...
Ormylia Ioakeim A. Papaggelos 29 October 2011 By 1307 there already existed the nucleus of a dependency in the locality of Ormylia, in Chalcidice. It seems that, originally, the chief function of the metochi was to provide winter accommodation fo...
Aghios Mamas Ioakeim A. Papaggelos 29 October 2011 The first known reference to Vatopaidi possessions in the village of Aghios Mamas in Chalcidice dates from 1301. Owing to the upheavals of the mid 14th century, Vatopaidi was obliged to construct a fo...
Provlakas Ioakeim A. Papaggelos 29 October 2011 This appears to have been founded in the 12th century16. It lay on the northern side of the Athos isthmus where the refugee village of Nea Roda now stands. During the 14th century it is known by the n...
Ammouliani Ioakeim A. Papaggelos 29 October 2011 The cluster of islands which lies to the west of Prosphorion (Figs 57, 58) was a metochi as early as the beginning of the 14th century14. It seems that it was used chiefly as grazing ground, despite t...
Prosphorion Ioakeim A. Papaggelos 29 October 2011 The first known reference to a Vatopaidi metochi concerns “Prosphorion”. It was located in the region of today’s Ouranoupoli in Chalcidice. Until very recently this village preserved its old name. It ...
Introduction – The metochia in Greece, Asia Minor, Bulgaria and Serbia Ioakeim A. Papaggelos 29 October 2011 A basic precondition for the survival of the Athonite monasteries was the possession of dependencies (metochia*): these were farmland, woodland, grassland and, sometimes, sea and lakes which belonged ...
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