| Xinovrysi Ξινόβρυση |
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Xinovrysi
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| Country: | Greece |
| Region: | Thessaly |
| Regional unit: | Magnesia |
| Municipality: | South Pelion |
| Municipal unit: | Argalasti |
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| - Population: | 174 |
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| Time zone: | EET/EEST (UTC+2/3) |
Xinovrysi (Greek: Ξινόβρυση) is a Greek village located near Argalasti in the Pelion area in the Magnesia prefecture. Xinovrysi is connected with a road linking with Trikeri and the GR-34. Xinovrysi is part of the municipal unit of Argalasti. Its population in 2001 was 161.
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| Year | Village population | Municipal district population |
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| mid-19th century | 325 | - |
| 1981 | 306 | - |
| 1991 | 208 | - |
| 2001 | 161 | 199 |
The older name of the town was Bistinika (Μπιστινίκα) or Bestinika (Μπεστινίκα). The historian Yannis Kordatos describes the origin of the name Bistinika that comes from the Slavic word pestinik or pecnik which means oven. Other think that the origin of the previous name came from the Greek word for narrow, one of its areas are built in a narrow area that are filled with two and three hilltops.
During the Ottoman Period, Bistinika was the mahala of Argalasti. In the mid-19th century, the village had 65 to 80 homes and it had around 325 persons and lived off olive, wine, figs and other types of agriculture. The village has never lived off prosperity and it didn't had a school. The village was destroyed first during the Greek War of Independence in 1821 and 1823 which devastated the entire village by the Turks, in 1854 and in 1878.
The village finally became Greek after the liberation of Thessaly in 1881. Bistinika became a part of the municipality of Spalathra, it had an area which in Argalasti and others except for Argalasti and Bistinikas - it had Metochi, Bir [Μπιρ] (now Kallithea) and Ski [Σκι] (now Syki).
In 1994, Bistinika became an autonomous commune and opened its first school. Later, the name officially changed to its present name of Xinovrysi. The new name which comes from the name of the springs (natural spring). Th ename of the town rarely known with two ys (as Xynovrysi). Today, its nearby stream are mainly destroyed.
After the difficult wartime periods of World War II and the Greek Civil War, the population begam to tumble and decline, many of its inhabitants left for larger towns and cities including Volos and other parts of the world.
Its nearby beaches at the Aegean Sea, are Mourtitsa, Potistika, Kourites and Melani. In the 1970s, the area began its tourism by introducing hotels and restaurants. Its local school shut down in the 1990s.
In late-August 1995, the beautiful area of Xinovrysi with its olives and its pines suffered a forest fire. With the Kapodistria Law (L. 2539/1997) in 1998, Xinovrysi became a municipal district of the new municipality of Argalasti. The remaining inhabitants still live off with agriculture and revive a part of its tourism.
For a summer torp, many head to the beautiful beaches of Xinovrysis, Mourtitsa, Potistika and Melani which is located around 5 km from the village and is accessed with a paved road. Potiatika is a small settlement which works as a camping settlement. At the town square features café shops.
Xinovrysi has a church, and a square (plateia), its nearest school, lyceum (middle school) and gymnasium (secondary school) are in Argalasti.
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