Qualla: Longanikos https://qualla.com/longanikos en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/g/longanikos-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Longanikos https://qualla.com/longanikos Longanikos: Introduction https://qualla.com/longanikos/ Photo credit User:Eparho, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1668, the Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi passed through a town he called Longanik and found it half-empty. Of its 500 houses, only 100 were inhabited; the rest had lost their residents to plague or flight into the mountains. He noted a single mosque, eleven churches, and women still spinning silk in the ruins of a community that had once been larger. The village on the eastern slope of Mount Taygetos is still there — called Longanikos now, population 404 according to the 2021 census — and it has been continuously inhabited since at least the Mycenaean period.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/g/longanikos-wp/sqxg-longanikos-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Longanikos: A Position That Commands Everything https://qualla.com/longanikos/ Photo credit User:Eparho, CC BY-SA 3.0. Longanikos sits where three prefectures — Laconia, Arcadia, and Messinia — converge without quite meeting, in the gap where Taygetos and Parnonas approach each other and create the Laconian valley of the Eurotas below. This is not an accidental village. Anyone moving armies or tr...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/g/longanikos-wp/sqxg-longanikos-a-position-that-commands-everything.mp3 0:06 2 full Longanikos: The Olive Oil That Isn't Italian https://qualla.com/longanikos/ Photo credit User:Eparho, CC BY-SA 3.0. The main industry in Longanikos today is olive oil. The extra virgin oil produced in the surrounding groves is, according to local and industry accounts, purchased by Italian premium brands, which repackage and market it under Italian labels. It is a quietly ironic trade relation...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/g/longanikos-wp/sqxg-longanikos-the-olive-oil-that-isnt-italian.mp3 0:06 3 full Longanikos: The Golden Greek of Lynn, Massachusetts https://qualla.com/longanikos/ Photo credit User:Eparho, CC BY-SA 3.0. A particular concentration of Longanikos emigrants settled in Lynn and Lowell, Massachusetts, both historically gateway cities for immigrant communities in the northeastern United States. The most famous person connected to Longanikos was Harry Agganis, known as the "Golden Greek...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/g/longanikos-wp/sqxg-longanikos-the-golden-greek-of-lynn-massachusetts.mp3 0:06 4 full Longanikos: Fir Slopes Above the Valley https://qualla.com/longanikos/ Photo credit User:Eparho, CC BY-SA 3.0. Longanikos is at 37.233°N, 22.248°E, roughly 30 kilometers north of Sparta on the eastern flank of Mount Taygetos. From altitude, the village is visible as a cluster of stone and whitewashed buildings on a green slope above the valley, with the fir-covered upper ridges of Taygeto...

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