Mantamados

Periphery: North Aegean
Prefecture: Lesbos

Municipality Mantamados


Mantamados (Μανταμάδος) is a municipality on the island of Lesbos, in the Lesbos Prefecture, Greece. Population 3210 (2001).

Mantamados is located at the northeast corner of the island, and has a land area of 122.435 km². The municipal seat is the town of Mantamádos (pop. 1,156). Its largest other towns are Kápi (654), Kleió (551), and Pelópi (512).

Mantamados is very famous for the monastery of the Archangel Michael of Mantamados, popular among the believers of Greece, on the outskirts of the village. The canteen within its yard makes tasty traditional doughnuts (without the ring and dipped in honey and ground walnuts). The island is also famous for its cheese (Ladotyri) and for its farms. It was also one of the few places in Greece to have a mayor belonging to the Greek Communist Party until 2000.

Mantamados, Satellite image

Division of the municipality

  • Mantamados / Δ.δ. Μανταμάδου [ 1452 ]
    • Mantamados / ο [ 1156 ]
    • Agios Stefanos / ο Άγιος Στέφανος [ 31 ]
    • Aspri Plakouda (island) / η Άσπρη Πλακούδα (νησίδα) [ 0 ]
    • Aspronisia (island) / τα Ασπρονήσια (νησίδα) [ 0 ]
    • Aspropotamos / ο Ασπροπόταμος [ 36 ]
    • Lagkada / η Λαγκάδα [ 6 ]
    • Mavri Plakouda (island) / η Μαύρη Πλακούδα (νησίδα) [ 0 ]
    • Barbalias (island) / ο Μπαρμπαλιάς (νησίδα) [ 0 ]
    • Palios / ο Παλιός [ 29 ]
    • Panagia (island) / η Παναγιά (νησίδα) [ 0 ]
    • Pedi / η Πέδη [ 52 ]
    • Taxiarches / οι Ταξιάρχες [ 142 ]
    • Tsoukalas (island) / ο Τσουκαλάς (νησίδα) [ 0 ]
  • Kapi / Δ.δ. Κάπης [ 654 ]
    • Kapi / η [ 654 ]
    • Limanion / το Λιμάνιον [ 0 ]
  • Kleio / Δ.δ. Κλειούς [ 592 ]
    • Kleio / η [ 551 ]
    • Tsonia / τα Τσόνια [ 41 ]
  • Pelopi / Δ.δ. Πελόπης -- η [ 512 ]


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