Manesi, Achaia

Manesi (officially: Manesion) is a local community of the Municipality of Kalavryta. It includes the settlements of Manesi and Mpoumpouka.

Designation

The name of the village Manesi comes from the first-born Manesi, who came from the Manesi family, to which the name Manesi is due in many parts of Greece. There are still many families today with the name "Manesis".

History

The history of the village of Manesi dates back to 1465 AD. The first inhabitants of the village lived in the current location "Palio Manesi", where some ruins survive. "Palio Manesi" is located at the foot of Erymanthos above the springs of the tributary of Selinountas "Michni".

During the Peloponnese census by the Venetians in 1700, the village was inhabited by 12 families, which had 48 people. During the Turkish occupation, ie from 1715 to 1821, they settled in the present-day Manesi. Many militant villagers who fought in Kalavrita, Levidi, Tripolitsa, Akrata, Patras, etc. took part in the Revolution. Manesi is home to Nikaia and Papadimitraia who excelled during the "Holy Struggle".

After her release in 1928, she had a full Greek school, with 56 students.

In 1914, after the dissolution of the Municipalities, when it became a Community, it had 562 inhabitants. It had a transitional court, a police station, a post office, a telegraph office, a rural doctor's office. There were also 5 grocery stores, 2 cheese shops, 2 ironworks. In general, everything needed for the good living of the inhabitants.
Administrative history

After the liberation, when the Municipalities were founded during the reign of Otto, Manesi was the capital of the Municipality of Lapathon, which included 18 villages. It was the richest municipality in the province of Kalavrita [citation needed]. Today Manesi is a local community of the Municipality of Kalavrita. It includes the settlements of Manesi and Bubuka.
Holy Monastery of Agios Georgios

Near the village is the beautiful small monastery of Agios Georgios, which was built in 1824 by an agitated Ithaca, named Eugenios, also called "Agiopatera" or "Papoulaki", which had a glorious and tragic end with the sword of Ibrahim Pasha. , in Tripotamas three years later. The life of the Monastery was short. Faithful women, however, have recently renovated and operated it. Today the small katholikon and its precinct as well as various temple ruins are preserved.

Manesi today

Today Manesi is a large village in the Municipality of Kalavrita. It maintains a primary school, a kindergarten with children and the surrounding villages, a recently renovated rural doctor's office, the Holy Temple of Agios Nikolaos and many chapels. There are two steakhouses, one of which is a grocery store. It has sports facilities for young people to play sports. There are also rooms for rent all year round. It is 20.5 km from Kalavrita, and 52.1 km from Patras.
Demographic development
Chronology Population
2001 270 [1]
2011 201 [2]
Area

The village covers an area of ​​17,860 acres.
References

ESYE. - Permanent Population of Greece. Census 2001

EL.STAT. - Permanent Population of Greece. Census 2011

Sources

Results of the 2011 Population-Housing Census concerning the Permanent Population of the Country, Government Gazette of the Hellenic Republic, vol. 2, p. 3465 (December 28, 2012).
ESYE. - Permanent Population of Greece. Census 2001, Athens 2004. ISBN 960-86704-8-9.
George Papandreou, Kalavrita Yearbook: ie a treatise on the history of the province of Kalavrita, Publisher Michael I. Saliveros, In Athens 1906.
Manesi of Kalavrita, Cultural Association
Manesi of Kalavrita
I.M. AGIOU GEORGIOU [dead link]

Bibliography

Theodoros I. Louloudis, Achaia. Settlements, settlers, self-government, Prefectural Enterprise for Cultural Development NA. Achaia, Patras 2010.

External links
VRES.GR Manesi