Administrative Region : Crete
Regional unit : Heraklion
Miamou (Μιαμού ) Heraklion
Miamou is a village in the province of Kainourgiou in the plain of Messara and the seat of the homonymous Municipal District of the Municipality of Gortyna, in the Prefecture of Heraklion. Among other things, it has a regional clinic. Remarkable are the churches of Agios Georgios and Agios Ioannis the Theologian, in the village, as well as Agia Marina, with a spring believed to be the source of healing water, Agios Eleftherios, Agios Ioannis Prodromos, Agia Sofia. , Agia Paraskevi, Agios Spyridonas and Agios Georgios. When it was a community, the settlement of Krotos as well as Lentas belonged to Mimos. There is a primary school in Miamos and Krotos.
M .D.. Miasmos
With a total population of 398, according to the 2001 census, the Municipal District of Mimosas are (in anchors their population in 2001) today:
Miaamou, seat [122].
Agia Marina [0], uninhabited.
the Westerner (formerly the name: the Westerner) [15].
Krotos [120], on the southern slopes of the Asterousia Mountains, about 69 km from Heraklion. The inhabitants are engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. Early vegetable growing is cultivated on the coastal areas. In the village there are the holy temples of Agios Dimitrios and Agios Georgios, while a short distance from the beach in a cave there is a small church dedicated to Zoodocho Pigi, where a big festival takes place on the Friday of Diakainisimos.
Lentas [119]. In the settlement is the church of Agios Ioannis the Theologian.
Papadogiannis [22]
Historical data
The residents believe that it was inhabited by the inhabitants of the settlements of Agios Eleftherios, Fotini, Haraka, Apidiana, Agia Marina, whose ruins can be seen next to the neighboring village. However, settlements with these names are not mentioned in well-known texts. In the area there is a small cave in which the archeological findings reveal its use as a human residence, from 3500 BC.
In 1583 Miamú is mentioned with 204 inhabitants (Kastrofylakas, K 103). Krotos is also mentioned under the name Crothó by Basilicata (Spanakis S., Monuments of Cretan History, V, 120) and in the Turkish census of 1671 Crotho with 17 engravings (Cretan Chronicles, AD, 104). This village is not mentioned in Kastrofylakas.
Bibliography
Heraklion and its Prefecture, Heraklion Prefecture Publication.
| Municipal unit Gortyna |
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| Community Agios Kyrillos |
| Άγιος Κύριλλος, ο |
| Γερόκαμπος, ο |
| Community Agioi Deka |
| Agioi Deka (Άγιοι Δέκα, οι) |
| Vourvoulitis (Βουρβουλίτης, ο) |
| Community Ampelouzos |
| Ampelouzos (Αμπελούζος, ο) |
| Community Apesokari |
| Apesokari (Απεσωκάριον, το) |
| Community Vagionia |
| Vagionia (Βαγιονιά, η) |
| Koumasa (Κουμάσα, η) |
| Λούκια, η |
| Community Vasiliki |
| Vasiliki (Βασιλική, η) |
| Κανδήλα, η |
| Community Vasilika Anogeia |
| Vasilika Anogeia (Βασιλικά Ανώγεια, τα) |
| Φλαθιάκαι, αι |
| Community Gagales |
| Valis (Βαλής, ο) |
| Γκαγκάλαι, αι |
| Community Mitropoli |
| Mitropoli (Μητρόπολις, η) |
| Community Miamou |
| Agia Marina (Αγία Μαρίνα, η) |
| Dyskos (Δυσκός, ο) |
| Krotos (Κρότος, ο) |
| Λέντας, ο |
| Miamou (Μιαμού, η) |
| Papadogiannis (Παπαδογιάννης, ο) |
| Community Platanos |
| Platanos (Πλάτανος, ο) |
| Trypita (Τρυπητά, τα) |
| Community Plora |
| Plora (Πλώρα, η) |
| Community Choustouliana |
| Choustouliana (Χουστουλιανά, τα) |
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