Arsinoi is situated on the west of the Eva Mountain and on the south
of the
Ithome Mountain, at
an altitude of 330m, at a distance of 2km from
ancient
Messini. It is a small traditional village with several stone houses. Around
746, farmers and stockbreeder inhabited it. Τhe original name of the village is
unknown. Several years later, Arvanites from the villages of Soulima, Trifylia
settled in the village and they were the first to give it the name Syriza, a distortion
of which later gave the name Simiza. The first official appearance of the name
Simiza is in the census carried out by the Venetians in 1700. Based on that census
19 families with 31 men and 29 women lived in the village.
Arsinoi contributed to the 1821 War for the Independence two great
fighters, Yiannis Tsiros and Yiannis Lekkas or Lekopoulos who served as an officer.
Up to 1833 it belonged to the province of Implakia. In 1836 it became part of
the newly founded municipality of Ithome. In the beginning of the 20th century
and up to 1927 it was part of the community of Mavromati and had 238 inhabitants.
From that moment on it became a separate village with 241 inhabitants, until 1998
when it was incorporated in the Municipality of Ithome.
The Primary School of Arsinoi that operated since 1937 moved to a
new building in 1952. The village was linked to the water network in 1958. The
church was built in 1970, which was also the year the community office was built
and the remodeling of the village square begun.
This text is cited April 2003 from the
Municipality of Ithomi tourist pamphlet.
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