Dimini – Paliouri
Origin placename:
There are two versions about the etymology of the word Dimini.
One is the "two months", the two months that you lived in as Kalyvitis, farmers who had their homes Makrinitsa.
Although experts consider this scenario prevalent, just thirty years ago, scribes heard and "Ntimin Kalyvia" as the name of the region, which reinforces the view that one of Kordatou Ntimin Pasha, bequeathed his name to the village.
Brief Chronology
Dimini is a continuation of large prehistoric settlement including the Neolithic settlement, hilltop and the later prehistoric settlement, -southeast- in lowland.
The Primary School was established between Dimini 1868 -1870, worked as a community until the liberation of Thessaly, it 1881, and belongs to the municipality Makrinitsas.
The Zosimas Esphigmenitis indicate the operation of two grammatodidaskaleion village, it 1887. Since 1907 school enrollment and girls. It 1the Comprehensive School Dimini functioned in a rented house until the earthquake of 1957. Once the 1958, begins the construction of the school was great.
Settlements and Dimini Paliouri be established in 19the century residents Makrinitsas. In early 20th century the area was abandoned, both were there the bandits hideout. Enlivened only when the farmers came from Makrinitsa.
Paliouri experienced a, on, short life of about a century. But village was recorded as frequent visits of representatives of religious and political authorities of the place and the existence of elementary school.
The offspring of the land and livestock development, marked seasons of prosperity to the village which was abandoned, after the Civil, because it lacked basic infrastructure, such as transportation and the electric grid. Relocation of Paliouriton, the settlement of Dimini, completed in 70s.
On the road to Volos, there is a small settlement of Sampanaga (the name of a Turkish landowner place name) Lamia. There is the church of the Assumption.
Sesklo
Origin placename:
Sesklo owes its name to the plant Swiss chard, public Pazios. Wild Pazios everywhere around the village and especially the archaeological site. The Tsountas writes that the name of the village and chard.
Brief Chronology:
The prehistoric settlement of Sesklo developed over the hill “Kastraki” and the area around the current Sesklo. The area was first inhabited in the mid 7thχιλιετίας. The striking findings in the area have allowed archaeologists to study one of the oldest communities in prehistoric Europe.
The first mention of the name of the village is the Monastery Dushan Trikala. Among the donors, entered in a special register, There is someone Seskliotis. The recording allegedly made about 1600.
In the narthex of the Church of the Archangels (Ai Commander is the patron of the village) there is a column labeled "August aps ...". Since the data mean the aps ... 1700, it is obvious that the temple was built during the 18the century. It is therefore certain that, than those mentioned by the traveler Leake, there was a thriving settlement in 18the century.
The Leake however, states, first, being decadent settlement in the area: "Twenty dilapidated houses with only one Christian resident, representative of Ali Pasha, a special mission ".
Argyris Philippides, A few years later, it 1815, visits the village and writes 150 homes, talking about the rise and decline of the place. "It's as if his older homes Volos, But today he is unhappy (village) and God will bring them to their first ".
Zechariah says that the previous being the place due to small craft processing silk.
With acne but the nearby Volos, the village begins to decline. With the entry of 19th century, transferred to the Old Grand Bazaar which were Sesklo. So, The few remaining residents "living with georgikin", by Philippides.
By 1912, Sesklo belongs to the Municipality of Feres has established Velestino. Then, because he was "in favor of the 300 residents and school elementary education ", autonomy and a separate community. This school certainly composed by 1953 from a single room. Subsequently added some cells donated by the church and, A few years later, built, on land purchased from the Community, new school was.
During the interwar, were in the village and tent-dwelling Arvanitovlachs. These people were housed in homes built in concession, the Community, plots.
After the Second World War, mainly in the decade '50-'60, The Community Sesklou dealt with water projects, Cleaning, making roads have changed the format of the site and the lives of citizens.
It 1971 founded the Football Association "Citadel" and Sesklo 1984 created by the Cultural Association Sesklou.
Across the 20the century, Sesklo dominates the reference dipole at Greki- Vlachs and the villagers are Vlachs or Karagounides descent. Older not, speak the Vlach language.
