{{Short description|Village in Thessaly, Greece}} {{hatnote|Kleinos may also refer to the Glorious in pederasty in ancient Crete.}} {{Infobox Greek Dimos |name = Kleino |name_local = Κλεινό |type = municipal unit |image_map = DE Klinovou.svg |map_caption = Location within the regional unit |periph = Thessaly |periphunit = Trikala |municipality = Meteora |pop_municunit = 1197 |pop_community = 328 |population_as_of = 2021 |area_municunit = 180.7 |elevation = |coordinates = {{coord|39|40|N|21|27|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |postal_code = |area_code = |licence = ΤΚ |website = |image_skyline = |caption_skyline = }} '''Kleino''' ({{langx|el|Κλεινό}}; formerly '''Klinovos''', {{langx|rup|Clinova}}<ref>[https://scribd.com/doc/45208296/Ioan-Caragiani-Studii-istorice-asupra-aromanilor-din-Peninsula-Balcanic%C4%83 Studii istorice asupra aromânilor din Peninsula Balcanică]. p. 124.</ref>) is an Aromanian<ref>[https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/E07437275D8338774F6A756FB3CBBA8E/S0020859020000371a.pdf/transhumants-and-rural-change-in-northern-greece-throughout-the-nineteenth-century.pdf Transhumants and Rural Change in Northern Greece Throughout the Nineteenth Century]. p. 58.</ref> village and a former municipality in the Trikala regional unit, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Meteora, of which it is a municipal unit.<ref name=Kallikratis>{{Cite web|url=http://www.et.gr/idocs-nph/search/pdfViewerForm.html?args=5C7QrtC22wGYK2xFpSwMnXdtvSoClrL8-SrPzKAEPjjtIl9LGdkF53UIxsx942CdyqxSQYNuqAGCF0IfB9HI6hq6ZkZV96FIukI0UzcPsWCK0LpLhpa7rhiWB4R5ntTnoWw7U8E1Amg.|title=ΦΕΚ A 87/2010, Kallikratis reform law text|language=el|publisher=Government Gazette}}</ref> The municipal unit has an area of 180.728 km<sup>2</sup>.<ref name=stat01>{{cite web|url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |publisher=National Statistical Service of Greece |title=Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation) |language=el |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921212047/http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |archivedate=2015-09-21 }}</ref> Population 1,197 (2021).
The Monastery of the Holy Apostles is located in Kleino. It contains a unique old inscription in the Aromanian language.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.stagonnews.gr/iera-moni-agion-apostolon-klinovou-ena-mikro-afieroma-se-ena-apo-ta-simantikotera-thriskeftika-mnimia-periochis-kalampakas/|title=Ιερά Μονή Αγίων Αποστόλων Κλεινοβού – Ένα μικρό αφιέρωμα σε ένα από τα σημαντικότερα Θρησκευτικά μνημεία περιοχής Καλαμπάκας|first=Grigoris G.|last=Kalyvas|newspaper=Stagonnews|date=29 June 2015|language=el}}</ref>
== History ==
Based on the codex of the monastery of Varlaam in Meteora, the village seems to have existed already in the 10th century.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Μελέτες για τους Βλάχους|first=Αστέριος Ι.|last=Κουκούδης|publisher=εκδόσεις Ζήτρος|isbn=|year=2000|volume=Β΄. Οι Μητροπόλεις και η Διασπορά των Βλάχων|location=Θεσσαλονίκη|page=91|quote=}}</ref> The settlement is mentioned as Klinovista in a document of 1340, so it is a settlement of the Byzantine era. In the Turkish census of 1454/55, as Klinova, it is mentioned among the honorary Trikala spahs. In Turkish sources it is referred to as Klinovos, Klinovon, Klinovous and also as Klinovopolis.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Δημογραφική διερεύνηση στη Θεσσαλία κατά τον Ύστερο Μεσαίωνα|url=https://www.academia.edu/1265619/%CE%94%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%BF%CE%B3%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%86%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE_%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B5%CF%8D%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7_%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B7_%CE%98%CE%B5%CF%83%CF%83%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%AC_%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD_%CE%8E%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%BF_%CE%9C%CE%B5%CF%83%CE%B1%CE%AF%CF%89%CE%BD%CE%B1|first=George|last=Terezakis}}</ref>
The settlements that made up Kleinovo seem to have been inhabited throughout the Turkish occupation and it is also mentioned as the place of origin of the Vlach-speaking Patriarch of Constantinople, Matthew II (1596-1602). He also mentions the Bishop of Stagios, Silivria and later of Philippou as the place of origin of Paisios II (1740-1822). During the time that Paisios was bishop of Stagios, the church of the monastery of the Holy Apostles, where we find his autobiography frescoed, as well as the churches of Agia Paraskevi and Aghios Georgios, were hagiographed under his care. In addition, the Patriarch of Alexandria Jerome Ierotheos I and the revolutionary fighter,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.vlioras.gr/1821/PaisiosP.html|title=Παΐσιος Βʹ: ο δραστήριος και φιλεκπαιδευτικός Κλινοβίτης ιεράρχης των Σταγών|website=www.vlioras.gr|accessdate=2021-09-28|archive-date=2021-09-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210928133018/http://www.vlioras.gr/1821/PaisiosP.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> charioteer of the region of Aspropotamos, Gregorios Liakatas (1795-1825), descended from the village.
==Notable people== * Hierotheus I of Alexandria (?–1845), Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria * {{ill|Grigoris Liakatas|el|Γρηγόρης Λιακατάς}} (1795–1826), fighter and klepht
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