{"id":5831,"date":"2021-11-01T10:22:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T08:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melanesnaxos.gr\/?page_id=5831"},"modified":"2024-04-13T23:11:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T20:11:59","slug":"stagones-istorias","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/melanesnaxos.gr\/en\/stagones-istorias\/","title":{"rendered":"Drops of History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 1835, with 275 inhabitants (65 families), it was annexed to the newly established municipality of Vivlos in the province of Naxos, based in the settlement of Galanado.<\/p>

In 1912, it was decided that the settlements, which have more than 300 inhabitants and an elementary school, would become independent communities. The settlement of Melanes is separated from the municipality of Vivlos.<\/p>

In 1997, with the implementation of the \"Kapodistrias\" Program (law 2539\/97), the settlement was annexed to the Municipality of Naxos, while it was also the center of the homonymous Municipal Department. With the implementation of the \"Kallikratis\" Program in 2010 (law 3852\/2010), the settlement became part of the Municipality of Naxos. Together with the settlements of Agios Thaleleos (106 inhabitants), Kourounochori (105 inhabitants) and Mylos (27 inhabitants) they constitute the Local Community of Melanes (652 inhabitants).<\/p>

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In 1944, on the days of liberation, 123 years after the revolution of 1821 and 34 after the revolt of the peasants in the Thessalian plain (Kileler) against the \u2018tsiflikades\u2019 (landlords), the feudal structures of the Frankish rule still exist in Naxos, and especially in Melanes. This situation worsened during the Occupation with the support of the Italian occupiers.<\/p>

In the villages of Melanes, the situation is unbearable and the peasant farmers groan under the yoke of the Frankish feudal lords. In the early summer of 1944, three people begin discussing the idea of occupying the estates by the oppressed Melanes people and planning the operation. They are the teacher of the village, Ioannis M. Korres, the President of the community of Melanes, Frangiskos Anevlavis and the university student Dimitris Katsonis, an educated young man, from Zagora, Pelion, with progressive ideas, who was married to Melanes. These three will initiate in the case together with other villagers, the village priest Stefanos Vasilakis, the members of the community Michalis Flerianos and Stathis Korakitis and many peasants.<\/p>

\"\u0395\u03b9\u03baOn October 12, 1944, word spread throughout the island that the Germans were leaving. The organizers of the uprising believed that the time had come to implement the plan to occupy the estates and decided to act. On October 13, 1944, at dawn, and while the siege against the Germans had begun in the castle of Chora, Katsonis rang the bells of the church of Agioi Apostoloi. More than 300 villagers (men, women and children) gathered in the churchyard. The 300 with the flag, held by Dimitris Katsonis, and the priest, the teacher, the president in the front line, shouting the slogan of the Greek-Albanian Front \"AERA\", start a dynamic march towards the Demari estate, the center of the Franks' land, a large building complex, which was located on the slope opposite the village. In the process, grenade launchers were heard, remnants of the Italian occupation, which were thrown to intimidate the Franks. Before the march approaches Demari, the Franks flee in fear to the Tower of Kourounochori for more security. The occupation of the estate took place without difficulty. A guard team of the estate was appointed by the leaders.<\/p>

The next day, October 14, 1944, at noon, the three-member Administrative Committee of the Melanes Community met and decided to request with a memorandum from the Prefect of Cyclades and the National Government the expropriation of the property of the Catholic Church and the Catholic Association \"Timios Stavros\" its distribution to the landless farmers of Melanes.<\/p>

At the same time, a group of Apiranthos animal thieves attempted to occupy Kalamitsia, the most fertile and largest estate in the area, along with the huge building complex. The Melanes people noticed them and with the help of soldiers of the Ieros Lochos arrested them, disarmed them and transported them to the Melanes. There, the angry inhabitants savagely rebuked them and drove them away.<\/p>

The Melanes people uprising was the beginning of the forced expropriation of 5,000 acres of arable land in favour of the landless farmers of the area and among them were the fertile estates of the Holy Cross and the Catholic Church. The relevant legislative decree was passed by the Parliament on April 3, 1947.
The uprising of the Melanite peasants can be described as the Kileler of Naxos. It is a great historical event, an important pan-national anniversary.<\/p>

The revolt of the Melanes people can be characterized as the Kileler of Naxos. It is a great historical event, an important Panaxia anniversary. On the initiative of the Cultural Association of Melanes KOUROS, o Ellinas is celebrated every year in the courtyard of the church of Agioi Apostoloi, where it started and its protagonists are honored.<\/p>

Text: Nikolaos Levogiannis, Philologist.<\/em><\/p>

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