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Place Names
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Monastiraki
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Monastiraki {Μοναστηράκι} was named after the "Great Monastery of Pandanassa Madonna" {Μέγα Μοναστήριον τής Παναγίας Παντανάσσης} which was founded in the 10th, or 12th, century. The monastery was in fact a nunnery and the nuns used to weave the "ampades" {αμπάδες}, that is to say thick and cheap fabrics which they sold. Later it became a glebe (a piece of land owned by a Christian Orthodox monastic society) of the Penteli {Πεντέλη} and Kesariani {Καισαριανή} monasteries.
02-25-2004