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submitted by Maria Kominou on 01.11.2003

The origin of the name Kominos

The origin of the name Kominos goes back thousands of years, as far back as Mesopotamia. The name was then Komninos, it was changed to Kominos much later.
The Komninos family were merchants in the time of the Byzantium, and the Byzantium was where they settled. They were considered very high up in the aristocracy, and at one time there is supposed to have been one on the throne. They remained in that high position until the Turks took Constantinople, at which point those who survived scattered on the winds and ended up… in Paleochora!

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