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The beautiful Samos villages

Miloi

Miloi is located south of Mytilinoi and right on the banks of the river Imbrasos. It got its name due to the watermills that existed in the area and which were moved by the waters of the river. Miloi is the oldest village in Samos and was built by the …

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Mesogio

Mesogeio is located south of Pandrosos and its old name was ‘Kato Arvanites’. It was founded by some descendants of the village ‘Ano Arvanites’ (Pandrosos). The region is fascinating, although in winter is extremely cold. “The people of ‘Kato Arvanites’ can boast that bred a man ignorant and primitive, but …

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Mavratzei

North east of the village Koumaradei and west of Mytilinoi, is the village of Mavratzei. The access is possible from the Chora–Koumaradaioi road, 4 km before the village. The old name is Gaeτànkeoi from the first inhabitant, a shepherd called Gaetanos from Koumaradaioi. Years after, George Mavratzas from Chora moved …

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Pagondas

Pagondas is located west of village Milloi and at the altitude of 180 meters. The name is found in the ancient era in Voeotia. Pagondas was called the father of Pindar. Pagondas was also named, as mentioned by Thucydides, someone Voeorarchis from Thebes and other, as mentioned by Pausanias, as …

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Koumaradei

Koumaradei is located east of the village Pyrgos, in a distance of 5 kilometers from it, in the southeast slope of mount Karvounis near a ravine. It took its name from the many arbute-trees that existed there. To the east you can see the Eptastadios Strait, the peninsula of Mycale, …

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Mytilinoi

North of the village Chora and in a short distance from it, lays the town of Mytilinoi which, as its name suggests, was inhabited by people that came from Mytilene. When Kilij Allis got, by sultan Suleiman, the permission to colonize Samos, Lesvos was in terrible condition. While the poor …

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Spatharei

Spatharaioi (Spatharei) is located about 6 kilometers south of the village called Pyrgos. It was firstly inhabited by the priest Peter Spatha whom got their name from. The tradition says that priest-Spatha gave birth to 18 sons and daughters in the 18 years that he lived together with his wife. From his …

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Pyrgos

This village lies in a distance of 5 kilometers west of Koumaradaioi. The location is near a stream that originates from the mountain of Ampelos, whom the ancients called Amfilisso.  According to tradition, the first resident was from Elida, Peloponnese. East of the village and nearby, it was found a …

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Pandrosos

Pandrosos is one of the most beautiful mountain villages on the western slopes of mount Karvounis surrounded by terraces of land with dry stone walls (benches), typical of the Mediterranean landscape. In 1958, the village was renamed Pandrosos, but until then, it was called ‘Ano Arvanites’. Tradition says that two …

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Chora

The town of Chora, (as Epaminondas Stamatiadis writes in a book called “SAMIAKA”), the former capital of the island, lies to the northeast side of the plain of the country, in the plateau which starts from the old city and ends opposite the village Heraion. The part of mountain Ampelos …

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