Description

The Pelendri was a known settlement that existed during the Middle Ages. De Our Matri this an Pelendres or Pelondres, giving the information that the 1353 was a fief of John de Lusignan, Prince of Antioch and a member of the royal family of Cyprus. The medieval chronicler George Voustronios mentions twice the village at the time. In one case mentions that around 1461, the village lived a rich (probably trader) named satin. In this case the Voustronios speaks two Prastio (farms) in Pelendri owned Ritzos what Marino and confiscated in 1474 by Catherine Cornaro. These two farms are Kardamas (Kardama) and Filagra, were dissolved during the Turkish occupation. The Filagra but refounded with the same name.

Apart from these two settlements, according to elders narratives, said that there were still 14 small villages, which have had to be abandoned and ve joined with residents of Pelendri to feel safer. As such villages reads: Poole, in which were found important archaeological objects of the era of Alexander the Great, the oven, in which there are traces of old settlement, Troumithos, in which there is a very old mine chalcopyrite, the Tzeramis, which destroyed completely destroyed by a landslide, the Rontia, the Konnara, Kaminia, the Mazokampos, the Chalazin, the Argyrou, the Deisis, the Ais Giannis Potamoulion, the Pontikia and Kountouries.