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Modern Description: After 30 km from Limni you come to Prokopi, whose often busy activity centres on the large church of Aghios Ioannis Roussos, ‘St. John the Russian' – the town's miracle-working patron saint. ‘ Up until the arrival of the refugees, Prokopi was known by its Ottoman name, ‘Ahmetağa'. Its recent history is closely intertwined with the Noel family, relatives of Byron, who purchased the surrounding land in the 1830s and whose manor-house – in a curious hybrid of Greek, colonial, hacienda, and English suburban styles – overlooks the village from a wooded hill to the northwest.
DARE: 29452

Info: McGilchrist's Greek Islands

(From McGilchrist’s Greek Islands, © Nigel McGilchrist 2010, excerpted with his gracious permission. Click for the books)

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