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Periphery: Crete
Prefecture : Heraklion
Moires (Greek: Μοίρες, "Fates") is a town and a former municipality in the Heraklion regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Faistos, of which it is a municipal unit.[1] Population 10,857 (2001). Its area is 182 km². The weekly market of the agricultural town of Moires is the largest in the region. In the early Middle Ages it was the home of Christian hermits, who allegedly met only once a year to worship at the chapel of Agios Andonis, built in the 14th or 15th century.
Subdivisions
- Antiskarion / το Αντισκάριον [ 452 ]
- Moni Apezanon / η Μονή Απεζανών [ 7 ]
- Platia Peramata / τα Πλατιά Περάματα [ 90 ]
- Tzigkounas / ο Τζίγκουνας [ 50 ]
- Pigaidakia / τα Πηγαϊδάκια [ 334 ]
- Agios Markos / ο Άγιος Μάρκος [ 22 ]
- Kaloi Limenes / οι Καλοί Λιμένες [ 47 ]
- Makronisi (island) / το Μακρονήσι (νησίδα) [ 0 ]
- Mikronisi (island) / το Μικρονήσι (νησίδα) [ 0 ]
- Moni Odigitrias / η Μονή Οδηγητρίας [ 90 ]
- Trafos (island) / η Τράφος (νησίδα) [ 0 ]
- Chrysostomos / ο Χρυσόστομος [ 4 ]
- Roufas / ο Ρουφάς [ 95 ]
- Plouti / η Πλουτή [ 72 ]
References
^ Kallikratis law Greece Ministry of Interior (Greek)
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