Administrative Region : Crete
Regional unit : Rethymno
Agios Vasileios (Άγιος Βασίλειος) Rethymno
Agios Vasileios of Rethymno is a settlement of the municipality of Agios Vasileios of the regional unit Rethymno of Crete. According to the official 2011 census, the population of the settlement is 130 inhabitants. Ecclesiastically it belongs to the First Hierarchical District of the Holy Metropolis of Lampi, Syvritos and Sfakia.
General elements
Agios Vasileios is built at an altitude of 310 meters, 23 km from the capital of the prefecture, Rethymno [2]. The name seems to have come from the homonymous church of the village.
Reference to the settlement is already made from a Venetian census of 1583, which recorded 136 inhabitants [3]. During the Turkish occupation, the village was called "New Agios Vasileios". According to an inventory of the Ottoman authorities of 1650, it was the capital of the homonymous nahiyye and had an area of 19 houses, being at the same time a hassle of the Cretan Empire [4]. In 1670 out of the 23 landowners, nine were Muslims [3] while the village was now owned by the santzakipei of Rethymno [5]. According to the Ottoman census of 1881, St. Basil had a population of 84 inhabitants, 9 of whom were Muslims. In 1894, according to the estimate of the officer of the Greek army, Nikostratos Kalomenopoulos, 20 Greek families lived in the village [7]. In 1900, according to the official Cretan State census, there were 116 inhabitants in the village.
The gorge of Kakoperatos starts at the borders of the settlement [9]. According to one version, near the settlement there used to be a Byzantine fortress called Kato Syvritos, the location of which has not been determined.
Administratively, Agios Vasileios was from 1913 to 1997 a community of the municipality of Agios Vasileios, while from 1997 until 2011 it was part of the Kapodistrian municipality of Foinikas [10]. Based on the current administrative division of the "Kallikratis" plan, the settlement is included within the boundaries of the municipality of Agios Vasileios.
Population Censuses
Inventory 1881 1900 1928 1940 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011
Population 84 [6] 116 [8] 115 [10] 128 [10] 155 [10] 133 [10] 107 [10] 127 [10] 132 [10] 130 [11] 130 [1]
References
Government Gazette of the Hellenic Republic, no. sheet 3465, second issue, 28 December 2012, p. 51715.
Municipality of Agios Vasileios.
Marinos Sarigiannis, The ruins of Agios Vasileios after the Ottoman conquest in the collective, Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference "The province of Agios Vasileios from antiquity until today: Environment - Archeology - History - Society" (Spili - Plakias October 19-23, 2008) C1: Turkish Occupation - Modern Times, Rethymno 2014, p. 16.
Marinos Sarigiannis, Rethymno 2014, pp. 19, 28.
Marinos Sarigiannis, Rethymno 2014, p. 28.
Crete Anthropogeography, Patrice newspaper insert, February 2008, volume B, p. 131.
Crete Anthropogeography, volume B ', 148.
Crete Anthropogeography, volume B ', 166.
Kakoperatos Gorge (Agios Vasileios).
Stamatelatos Michael - Vamba Stamatelatou Fotini, Geographical Dictionary of Greece, TA NEA, 2012, Volume I, page 19.
Census 2001, p. 278.
Sources
Encyclopedia Papyrus Larousse Britannica "vol.1, p.449.
| Municipal unit Foinikas |
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| Community Agios Vasilios |
| Agios Vasileios (Άγιος Βασίλειος, ο) |
| Community Agios Ioannis Agiou Vasileiou |
| Agios Ioannis (Άγιος Ιωάννης, ο) |
| Kali Sykia (Καλή Συκέα) |
| Kanevos (Κάνεβος) |
| Community Agkoulesiana |
| Agkouseliana (Αγκουσελιανά, τα) |
| Παλαιόλουτρα, τα |
| Community Asomatos |
| Asomatos (Ασώματος, ο) |
| Κάτω Μονή Πρέβελη, η |
| Πίσω Μονή Πρέβελη, η |
| Community Koxare |
| Atsipades (Ατσιπάδες, αι) |
| Katsogrida (Κατσογρίδα) |
| Koxare (Κοξαρέ) |
| Pale (Παλέ) |
| Community Lefkogeia |
| Αμμούδι, το |
| Gianniou (Γιαννιού, το) |
| Lefkogeia (Λευκόγεια, τα) |
| Σχοινάρια, τα |
| Community Mariou |
| Δαμνόνι, το |
| Mariou (Μαριού, το) |
| Palaia Taverna (Παλαιά Ταβέρνα) |
| Community Myrthios |
| Kalypso (Καλυψώ) |
| Kampos (Κάμπος, ο) |
| Kokkina Chorafia (Κόκκινα Χωράφια, τα) |
| Myrthianos Plakias (Μυρθιανός Πλακιάς, ο) |
| Myrthios (Μύρθιος) |
| Foinikas (Φοίνιξ, ο) |
| Community Rodakino |
| Ano Rodakino (Άνω Ροδάκινον, το) |
| Kato Rodakino (Κάτω Ροδάκινον, το) |
| Κόρακας, ο |
| Polyrizos (Πολύριζος) |
| Community Sellia |
| Plakias (Πλακιάς, ο) |
| Sellia (Σελλία, τα) |
| Σούδα, η |
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