Manioten.adj.

a1661 R. Bargrave Trav. Diary (1999) 69 At last we were faine to anchor in a Bay at the backside of the Cape, in the land of the Manniots, on the Continent of Morea.

1687 R. W. tr. P. M. Coronelli Hist. & Geogr. Acct. Morea ii. 85 In the year 1659 there was a very strong and numerous Garrison, who hindred Six thousand of the Magnotes who performed the Greek Rites.

1693 F. Vernon Let. in J. Ray Coll. Curious Trav. II. v. 26 The Mountains on the West side of it very high, the highest I have yet seen in Greece; the Maniotes inhabit them.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. liii. 474 In the time of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, they had acquired the name of Mainotes... Their territory, barren of corn, but fruitful of olives, extended to the Cape of Malea.

1830 W. M. Leake Trav. Morea I. 239 Like the Albanians, the Maniátes seldom venture to face their enemy in the field, but fire from behind houses, rocks, and trees.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 431/2 The Mainotes claim to descend from the Spartans, and probably represent the Eleuthero, or free, Laconians who were delivered by Rome from the power of Sparta.

1953 Speculum 28 134 The Maniotes..left the Peloponnesus about the time Crete was completely subdued by the Turks (1669) and..settled first in Paomia (1676) of Corsica.

1985 P. Greenhalgh & E. Eliopoulos Deep into Mani i. 49 This castle was critical for the defence of Frankish Laconia from the Maniátes of the peninsula to the south.

1824 D. Argyri Scenes in Morea iv. 193 He began to relax in his sentiments..as being the first Mainiote chief whose men were as effective on the plain as in their..mountains.

1914 L. M. J. Garnett Greece of Hellenes i. 5 Within their loopholed walls the clansmen still take refuge during the terrible blood-fueds that still from time to time arise between Mainote families.

1953 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 13 405 In the rugged highlands of the southern Morea or the Mainote peninsula, in the poorer villages of Epirus, the food of the peasant is neither wheat nor maize but galambochy or sorghum.

1988 R. Ward in Best of Sunday Times Trav. (BNC) 50 The feuding Maniot families of the eighteenth century bombarded each other with musket, cannon and rock.