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Neohori is, like the name says, a "new" village (neo hori = new place). In former times, the region was settled completely from the Aegean side up to the Pagasitikos gulf. Neohori however was built in the Middle Age by inhabitants of the surrounding settlements as well as by settlers from the Aegean side and from northern Greek. The history of the region around Neohori is very old. It started already in the ancient world; we know about the myths of Afetai, the myths of the kingdom of Lai and existing reports, talking about Minoan settlements, as well as settlers at Aghio Dimitrios (Neohori) and Cape Clossou, which is named in many old maps as "Knossou". The historians Strabo and Herodot wrote reports about Afetai.
The eastern side, the Aegean side of Neohori, is scattered with remainders of old settlements and fortresses, so e.g. in the places Lai, Aghio Dimitrios and Plaka. On some excavations, which were accomplished 1906 in Lai by the British archaeological school; A. J. B. WACE in its work "The Topography of Pelion and Magnesia" (1906) reports and describes that remnant/ruins of an early Christian church - a Basilica from the end of 5. century was found -, just as remnants of graves, fortresses, houses, coins and Amphora from the Byzantine time.
This was also mentioned by the French traveller M. MEZIERES in his diaries "Mémoires" (Paris 1954) and the Greek A. ABRAMAEAS "Thessalia" (Athens 1974). They wrote about ruins in Aghio Dimitrios and remnants of Byzantine fortresses, graves as well as coins of the emperors Justinian I. and Johanni Tsimiski.
