[6] Based on the codex of the monastery of Varlaam in Meteora, the village seems to have existed already in the 10th century.

[8] 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,[9] charioteer of the region of Aspropotamos, Gregorios Liakatas (1795-1825), descended from the village.