The History Of The Village
Skimming over the huge book of Greek History , we are stopping in 176 AD
. It was then when Pausanias wrote a book about his tour around a part of South Greece ,
Arcadia . While he was touring , he arrives in Orxomeno , an area after Hotusa and from
there he goes to Nasoi . Nasoi must have been created on the junction of the rivers Goat ,
Malita and Dry river of Bitikomis . According to Pausanias book the inhabitants were
farmers , cattlemen , potters and were working in brickyards .
The woods around Nasous were full of oaks pine trees and fir
trees . The area was rich in fauna ( bears , wolves , wild pigs etc. ) . There was also
several species of turtles and one of them had a huge shell from which was made a kind of
musical instrument .
During the period of the Roman domain the settlement of nasoi was
destroyed and the inhabitants were leaving nomadic around the old settlement . At the end
of the Byzantine Empire an Arbanitic tribe which had the same surname , Daras , came to
live to the abandoned plain of Nasoi . This tribe assimilated the others inhabitants and
the plain was named " The plain of Dara " and the biggest town was called Dara .
After the Venetian-Turkish war ( 1684-1687 ) and the conquest of
Morias from the Venetians , Morias ( Pelloponisos ) was divided in counties . After the
first record in 1700 , the biggest county was the county of Tripoli which had 52 villages
. After the second record in 1704 in the county of Tripoli , which has still 52 villages ,
we meet the villages Agali , Dara , Bezeniko , Kandila , Kamenitsa and Lebidi . After the
conquest of Morias from the Turkey , oppressor of the county of Tripoli became the Turkish
family of Arnaoutoglou .
The beginning of the Greek fight for freedom in 1821 started in Dara
before the others Greek places . There , at the plain of Dara , the conditions were very
hard . The Turkish oppressors had lots of benefits from this plain and had to keep the
people under control . The gigantic Darei ( as the history says the people who lived in
Madinia were very strong and tall ) were feeling into their blood the wish for freedom and
the hate about the Turk Arnaoutoglou . Before Kalamata and Kalabrita , the guns were first
heard at the plain of Dara . The Greek historian Fotakos who lived in Dara after the
rebellion described all the battles of darei against the conquerors .
In 1821 , 22 of March , before the beginning of the Greek rebellion ,
there was a fight in Kapsia where Turks were beaten . In 1821 again , 14 of April , Turks
were beaten again at the battle of Lebidi where the heroism of Darei was very important .
Darei had also taken part at the fall of Paliokastrou of Argous , the battle at
Baltetsi , the battle of Derbenakia and at the fall of Tripoli .
In 1834 the area of Dara named county of Nasoi including the villages :
Dara , Komi , Agali , Panagali , Pirgaki , Giousi , Bezenikos , Diaselon , Pougaki kai
Hotousa and the capital was Dara .
Én 1840 Nasoi had 1240 inhabitants and in 1907 2312 . The capitol of the
county , Dara , had 593 inhabitants in 1840 and 1185 in 1907 .Time goes and the period 1910-1915 started the first immigrations to Europe , Usa and
Canada .The period 1920-1940 the inhabitants are 1800 and after the 2nd world war
this number is big .
Today our village has 400-500 inhabitants but there are several people who
come from Dara and visit it during vacations .