Listed 28 sub titles with search on: Information about the place for wider area of: "MYLOPOTAMOS Province RETHYMNO" .
ANGELIANA (Village) GEROPOTAMOS
For church enthusiasts, the Byzantine church of Agios Antonios in
the village of Aggeliana 24km east of Rethimnon, near Perama, will be of interest.
ANOGIA (Small town) RETHYMNO
Anogia is a village high in the Psiloritis Mountains. It is 54km east
of Rethimnon on the Rethimnon - Panormon - Perama - Anogia road. Anogia is 36km
from Iraklion on the road Iraklion - Tilisos - Sklavokambos - Anogia. Because
of the village's isolation, local customs, dress, and dialects have been preserved.
Recently Anogia has become a popular stop for tourists. It is one of the major
handicraft and cottage industry centres on Crete. Many workshops are open to the
public and it is possible to see cloth being woven on large looms. There are many
tavernas, cafes, restaurants and also limited accommodation. Anogia took part
in all of Crete's struggles for liberation, the men of the area are reputed to
be fierce fighters. During World War II it was a major centre for the resistance
movement and it paid dearly for its involvement. In 1944, resistance fighters
kept the kidnapped German General Von Kreipe prisoner here before smuggling him
into Africa. In retaliation, German forces razed every building except the church
and killed all the men they could find.
This text is cited Dec 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains images.
APLADIANA (Village) KOULOUKONA
AXOS (Village) KOULOUKONA
The village of Axos is 46km southeast of Rethimnon on the Rethimnon
- Panormon - Perama - Mourtzana - Axos - Anogia road. Axos is above a fertile
valley north of Psiloritis where there is an abundance of water; a public fountain
is still in use dating from the Middle Ages. Axos was an important ancient Greek
city probably built at the time that the Dorians came to Crete (around 1000 B.C.).
Its harbour was in Bali and there was a large wall around the city. Axos was also
important during Byzantine times as the large number of Byzantine churches in
the area testify. There were 46 churches in the area and nine of them survive
today.
This text is cited Dec 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains image.
BALI (Port) RETHYMNO
The village of Bali is 37km from Rethimnon on the Rethimnon - Iraklion
highway, on the northern coast of Crete, and it is a pleasant village with a small
harbour, a beach, a monastery and an old fountain nearby.
Bali was the seaport for the classical city of Axos, but no physical
evidence remains. There is a small fishing harbour there now.
CHELIANA (Village) KOULOUKONA
Heliana is a village 41km east of Rethimnon between the Psiloritis
and the Kouloukonas Mountains. In the village of Heliana there is the Byzantine
church of Agios Georgios.
KALAMAS (Settlement) GEROPOTAMOS
The village of Kalamas is 35km southeast of Rethimnon, directly south
of Perama. In the village of Kalamas is the Byzantine church of Agios Georgios.
KASTRI (Settlement) GEROPOTAMOS
The village of Kastri is 35km southeast of Rethimnon and south of
Perama. It can be reached by the Rethimnon - Iraklion highway, exiting at Panormon.
It is an old village that took its name from a Venetian castle that used to be
up in the mountains. To reach Kastri you will go through some villages which still
maintain traditional village characteristics. The area of Kastri contains several
Byzantine churches.
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MARGARITES (Village) GEROPOTAMOS
The village of Margarites, which is located 27km southeast of Rethimnon,
near ancient Eleftherna, is an old village known for its pottery production. The
pots are handmade using techniques dating back thousands of years. Various village
shops sell the local pottery. The village has several remains from older eras
and several Byzantine churches. Walking around the village one can
see ornate doors and walls dating from the Venetian era. These features, as well
as the narrow alleys, retain certain aspects of traditional Cretan village architecture.
This text is cited Nov 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains images.
MELIDONI (Village) GEROPOTAMOS
The village of Melidoni is 28km east of Rethimnon near the highway
to Iraklion, and the village of Perama. Route: Rethimnon - Panormon - Perama -
Melidoni. Melidoni is known for its cave which has archaeological and historical
significance.
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PANORMOS (Village) RETHYMNO
Panormon is a small village and harbour 20km east of Rethimnon, easily
reached by the National Highway. The area near Panormon has remains of early Byzantine
churches.
During the 1800s, Panormon was a busy commercial centre and a steamship
line travelled from here to Rethimnon and Iraklion. The Venetians also used the
harbour and there was a fort and a castle here. No evidence of these remains now.
Panormon is a pleasant stop because of its good beach and reasonable level of
tourist accommodation and tavernas overlooking the harbour.
ZONIANA (Village) KOULOUKONA
The village of Zoniana is 47km southeast of Rethimnon on the Rethimnon
- Panormon - Perama - Mourtzana - Axos road. Near the village of Zoniana is the
Spileo Sendoni (Sendoni Cave).
ALLARIA (Ancient city) GEROPOTAMOS
Eth. Allariates. A city of Crete of uncertain site, of which coins are extant,
bearing on the obverse the head of Pallas, and on the reverse a figure of Heracles
standing.
AXOS (Ancient city) KOULOUKONA
Axus (Axos: Axus), a city of Crete (Herod. iv. 154), which is identified
with Oaxos (Steph. B. s. v.), situated on a river (rapidum Cretae veniemus Oaxen,
Virg. Ecl. 166), which, according to Vibius Sequester (Flum. p. 15), gave its
name to Axus. According to the Cyrenaean traditions, the Theraean Battus, their
founder, was the son of a damsel named Phronimne, the daughter of Etearchus, king
of this city (Herod. l. c.). Mr. Pashley (Travels, vol. i. p. 143, foll.) discovered
the ancient city in the modern village of Axus, near Mt. Ida. The river of Axus
flows past the village. Remains belonging to the so-called Cyclopean or Pelasgiewalls
were found, and in the church a piece of white marble with a sepulchral inscription
in the ancient Doric Greek of the island. On another inscription was a decree
of a common assembly of the Cretans, an instance of the well known Syncretism,
as it was called. The coins of Axus present types of Zeus and Apollo, as might
be expected in a city situated on the slopes of Mt. Ida, and the foundation of
which was, by one of the legends, ascribed to a son of Apollo. The situation answers
to one of the etymologies of the name: it was called Axus because the place is
precipitous, that word being used by the Cretans in the same sense that the other
Greeks assigned to agmos, a crag. (Hoeck, Kreta, vol. i. p. 397.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
VINI (Ancient city) KOULOUKONA
Eth. Benaios. A town of Crete, in the neighbourhood of Gortyn, to which it was
subject, only known as the birthplace of the poet Rhianus.
AXOS (Ancient city) KOULOUKONA
(Oaxos), called Axus (Axos) by Herodotus. A town in the interior of Crete on the river Oaxes.
PANORMOS (Ancient city) GEROPOTAMOS
A harbour on the northern coast of Crete.
ZONIANA (Village) KOULOUKONA
AXOS (Ancient city) KOULOUKONA
ASTALI (Ancient city) GEROPOTAMOS
The ancient site has been identified with the modern village of Bali (some scholars, though, locate the ancient Astali, the seaport of the ancient Axou, at the Fodele bay).
MYLOPOTAMOS (Province) RETHYMNO
A titular see of Crete,
suffragan of Candia.
Certain historians and geographers identify this locality with the
ancient Pantomatrion. As
to the Latin residential see, its first titular, Matthew, is mentioned about 1212,
shortly after the conquest of the island by the Venetians. From 1538 to 1549 the
Diocese of Cheronesus was
joined to it; on the other hand, in 1641, the Diocese of Milopotamos was united
with Rhethymnos and after
the conquest of the island by the Turks in 1670, became merely titular. We know
the names of about twenty residential Latin bishops. Among the schismatic Greeks
the See of Aulopotamos is united with that of Rhethymnos.
The ruins of the city may be seen along the sea-shore at Castel Mylopotamo,
about twelve miles from Rhethymnos.
S. Vailhe, ed.
Transcribed by: Douglas J. Potter
This extract is cited June 2003 from The Catholic Encyclopedia, New Advent online edition URL below.
PANTOMATRION (Ancient city) GEROPOTAMOS
Milopotamos. A titular see of Crete,
suffragan of Candia. Certain historians and geographers identify this locality
with the ancient Pantomatrion mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium, by Ptolemy,
who places it between Rhethymnos
and the promontory of Dium, and by Pliny, who places it elsewhere. . .
S. Valhi, ed.
Transcribed by: Douglas J. Potter
This extract is cited June 2003 from The Catholic Encyclopedia, New Advent online edition URL below.
ALLARIA (Ancient city) GEROPOTAMOS
A Minoan and Graeco-Roman settlement about 12 km E of Rethymno. The
site seems to have been first occupied during the Middle Bronze Age, and occupation
in the Late Bronze Age, Geometric, and archaic periods is suggested by pottery
recovered from the site. More intensive occupation, and most of the surviving
and visible remains, however, belong to the Hellenistic and Roman eras.
The main Graeco-Roman city was situated on the rising ground E of
the modern course of the stream and just above the shore. Apart from Roman house
walls visible in the cliff face by the shore, there is little to be seen of the
city itself. Tombs belonging to its cemeteries during the Roman period, however,
can be seen to both E and W. A third cemetery area lies to the SW where groups
of rock-cut chamber tombs and rock-cut graves can still be seen.
Outlying remains of some interest include traces of a Late Minoan
sanctuary, which continued to be used as a sacred site during the archaic and
Classical periods, situated on the hill of Kakavella, 400 m SW of the city.
Material from the site is stored both in Rethymno and the Herakleion
museums, and there are also some interesting finds in the collection of Khamalevri
School.
K. Branigan, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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