HISTORY

The Goths (396 A.D.) the Slavs (6th century) the Saracens, the Franks (1204 A.D.) and the Turks (1428) leave their traces as they pass through, but they do not manage to change its personality.

The local inhabitants become frightened, abandon their homes and ascend to Mt Pelion. They are forced to accept foreign toponymies, they go through repeated «Babylonian captivities» but they do not submit.

During the years of the Turkish domination Pelion enjoys some freedom. It is under the protection of the queen, Valide Soultana. Thusits inhabitants develop activities, they cultivate letters and create a civilization.

Anthimos Gazis

The great and renowned clergymen and Teachers of the Race Anthimos Gazes, Daniel Philippides and Gregory Konstantas were born and reared in Milies. Regas Velestinlis, sets out from his homeland, Velestino, in order to stir up the enslaved Greeks and becomes the forerunner of the great brave men, Kostas Garefis from Milies, Stergius Basdekis from Lambinou, Ìarigo Skenderanis from Pouri, Margaret Basdekis from Makrinitsa etc. who were distinguished for their struggle against the Turks along with thousands of other strugglers known and unknown. All of them under the shadow of the Cross fight for the freedom. Their aim is «for the cross to shine over the land and the sea» as Regas will chant in his «Thourio». And they are granted to see this aim of theirs come true.