| Agios Ypatios Άγιος Υπάτιος |
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Agios Ypatios
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| Country: | Greece |
| Region: | North Aegean |
| Regional unit: | Lemnos |
| Municipality: | Lemnos |
| Municipal unit: | Moudros |
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| - Population: | 13 |
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| Time zone: | EET/EEST (UTC+2/3) |
Agios Ypatios (Greek: Άγιος Υπάτιος) is a settlement in the Greek island of Limnos, it is in the municipal unit of Moudros and the community of Kontopouli. The population was 13 in the 2001 census. It is located ENE of Myrina and is connected with a road linking to the southern, central and western portions of the island. The Alyki Lagoon is to the south
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Close to Repanidi at an elevation of 800 to 1,000 m, is Anypatis (Ανυπάτης) or Aypatis (Αϋπάτης), as many call it Agios Ypatios during the name change. the village is built on a deep field east of Kotsinos and is located behind a few low hills that offer a view of the sea. The area is rich in a lot of waters, sourceful soil with wheat and winery and a few trees mostly groves.
Several houses remain in the settlement of which only three to four are inhabited. Most of the area are used by other countryes villages which has settlers around the agricultural area. It is part of the municipal district (then as community) of Repanidi without meaning as a separate settlement in sources, in which it does not had its only inhabitants.
During the late Ottoman Period (1650–1912), Anypatis presented its main function. It is believed it is located next to Repanidi, according to a map of Belon (1548). It was mentioned for the first time by Coval as Hagia-pate in around 1677, several years after the ruin of the Kotsinos castle by the Venetians which happened in 1656 and 1657. It had a small growth in which it washed the Limnian land and were prepared for stamp.
Several travellers mentioned the villages in several forms of the names as Haipati (1685, Choisseul-Gouffier), Aipati (Conze, 1858), Aioupati (1894, De Launay) and Aipati (Fredrich, 1904). Otherwist as much in the communal writings from 1854 as much as from Argyrios Moschidis in an article from the newspaper Neudag Nuova Giorno Nuovo Giorno Trieste (p 1349/1900) mentioned as Agios Ypatios.
It had several proceeders for the agricultural cotton production in northeastern Lemnos near Kontopouli and Plaka. Its population boomed in 1732 and built the church known as Saint Athanasius which still exist today.
In 1856, it had 107 men between ages 18 and 60 and paid 3424 gros in order to attend military service. The settlement was at its decline and had a mixture of Christian and Muslim population. In 1858, Conze founded Saint Athanasius church in an old source written in Hephaestia.
From that time, the Christian population declined as its inhabitants moved to Plaka and settled only by its same settlers in 1860 and 1865. It had 40 Christian families in 1863. It had 37 people in 1874. Its Christian population moved to Kontopouli, Romanos and Repanidi
In 1838, it had its final source for the settlement in a communal document, it had its council ran by Konstantinos Anagnostou. When Reinach visited in 1995, it had a Turkish population Friedrich founded that the village had a Turkish population during his visit to the island in 1904.
Agios Ypatios finally joined with the rest of Greece during the Balkan Wars in 1912, its Turkish population moved eastward after the Asia Minor Catastrophe in 1922.
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