The village of Tsimandria is referred to as Simandria in 1569. According
to tradition, the region once belonged to the Byzantine emperor Ioannis Tsimiskis.
The phrase "at the mandres of Tsimiskis" became Tsimandria. Mandra in the local
dialect means farmhouse. Ruins of Phtheris - the Byzantines called it Pterion
or Pterin - exist in this region. It was a farmhouse belonging to the monastery
of Taxiarchis Michael and later to that of Aghios
Ioannis of Patmos. Thismandria was the first village in Limnos
to be liberated in 1912.
This text (extract) is cited May 2003 from the Lemnos
Provincial Government tourist pamphlet (1997).
