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Gazi (Greek: Γάζι), Crete, is a town and a former municipality in the Heraklion peripheral unit of Crete in Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Malevizi, of which it is a municipal unit.[1] It lies 6 km west of Heraklion, on the north coast of Crete. With 8,018 inhabitants (2001 census), it was the seat of the municipality of Gazi (Δήμος Γαζίου), which comprised several nearby villages with a total population of 13,581 and an area of 95.8 km².
Villages of Gazi municipal unit, by community:
Gazi (28.2 km²): Gazi, Agia Marina, Agios Dimitrios, Agios Panteleimon, Ammoudara, Council-Houses, Kavrochori, Kefalogiannis, Koluvas, 62 Martyres, Xiropotamos, Kalessa.
Rodia (21.6 km²): Rodia, Kapetanaki Metochi, Linoperamata, Pantanassa, Palaiokastro/Paleokastro, Savatiana Monastery.
Fodele (24.3 km²): Fodele, Agios Panteleimon Monastery, Fodele beach.
Achlada (21.6 km²): Achlada, Agia Pelagia, Lygaria, Made.
Kalesia: Ano Kalesia and Kato Kalesia
Municipality of Gazi (older Form Gazion) with a population of 13581 in 2001:
- Gazion / Δ.δ. Γαζίου [ 9.637 ]
- Gazion / το Γάζιον [ 8.018 ]
- Agioi Theodoroi / οι Άγιοι Θεόδωροι (τ. ο Κεφαλογιάννης) [ 337 ]
- Agios Georgios o Methystis / ο Άγιος Γεώργιος ο Μεθυστής [ 41 ]
- Agios Dimitrios / ο Άγιος Δημήτριος (τ. το Καραμανλή Μετόχι) [ 546 ]
- Kavrochorion / το Καβροχώριον [ 267 ]
- Kollyvas / ο Κολλυβάς [ 267 ]
- Skafidaras / ο Σκαφιδαράς [ 83 ]
- Timios Stavros / ο Τίμιος Σταυρός [ 78 ]
- Gazion / το Γάζιον [ 8.018 ]
- Achlada / Δ.δ. Αχλάδας [ 1.080 ]
- Achlada / η Αχλάδα [ 119 ]
- Agia Pelagia / η Αγία Πελαγία [ 553 ]
- Ammoudi / το Αμμούδι [ 36 ]
- Lygaria / η Λυγαριά [ 144 ]
- Mades / ο Μαδές [ 90 ]
- Mononavtis / ο Μονοναύτης [ 38 ]
- Xirokampos / ο Ξηρόκαμπος [ 100 ]
- Achlada / η Αχλάδα [ 119 ]
- Kalesia / Δ.δ. Καλεσιών [ 896 ]
- Kato Kalesia / τα Κάτω Καλέσια [ 596 ]
- Ano Kalesia / τα Άνω Καλέσια [ 300 ]
- Kato Kalesia / τα Κάτω Καλέσια [ 596 ]
- Rodia / Δ.δ. Ροδιάς [ 1.326 ]
- Rodia / η Ροδιά [ 801 ]
- Agios Dimitrios / ο Άγιος Δημήτριος [ 57 ]
- Kapetanaki Metochi / το Καπετανάκι Μετόχι [ 22 ]
- Linoperamata / τα Λινοπεράματα [ 162 ]
- Moni Savvathianon / η Μονή Σαββαθιανών [ 21 ]
- Palaiokastro / το Παλαιόκαστρο [ 105 ]
- Pantanassa / η Παντάνασσα [ 135 ]
- Plaitis / ο Πλαϊτης [ 23 ]
- Rodia / η Ροδιά [ 801 ]
- Fodele / Δ.δ. Φόδελε [ 642 ]
- Fodele / το Φόδελε [ 540 ]
- Moni Agiou Panteleimonos / η Μονή Αγίου Παντελεήμονος [ 3 ]
- Paralia Fodele / η Παραλία Φόδελε [ 99 ]
- Fodele / το Φόδελε [ 540 ]
Fodele is claimed as the birthplace of El Greco, but this is disputed.
The ruins of a Venetian castle are at Palaiokastro ("Old Castle").
Agia Pelagia is a seaside resort village.
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