Administrative Region : Crete
Regional unit : Heraklion
Panassos (260 inhabitants in 2001) is a village and homonymous Municipal District of the province of Kainourgiou in the Municipality of Gortyna in the prefecture of Heraklion at an altitude of 450m. and with 260 inhabitants. It is overgrown with olive groves, vineyards and fruit trees. People are involved in olive growing and viticulture. Extremely quality cherries are produced in the village [1]. Its distance from the city of Heraklion is 35 km.
The village celebrates on July 26, the day of Agia Paraskevi and Panagia, on September 8, as well as on the last Sunday of May, when the feast of cherries. The holy temples in the village are dedicated to Agios Georgios, Agia Paraskevi, Sotira, Panagia, Agios Ioannis the Theologian and Agios Nektarios. The main problem that Panassos has been facing for the last two decades is the relocation of young people to the city, mainly from Heraklion. It has an elementary school and a kindergarten. Ecclesiastically it is a parish, maintains an agricultural cooperative and has created a Cultural Association (founded in 1982).
To the east of the village is the cave of Borothiana, which has not yet been exploited.
Historical data
The name is pre-Greek and may have come from an ancient city. with the same name, which is not mentioned by the authors. In the area of the village in the places Lenika and Loutra there are remains of ancient buildings.
It is rumored that the etymology of the place name comes from the two young lords of Crete, with the names Pan and Assos, who remained friends, although they loved the same woman.
At a distance of 500 m there is a sulphurous spring, called Vromolimni, whose water was channeled to the aqueduct in the old days. Traces are preserved from this aqueduct, at Loutra, where there were baths.
The first reference is made in a notarial document of 1280 with the name Panasso. In 1583 it is mentioned in the relevant census as Banasso, with 319 inhabitants (Kastrofylakas, K 103).
The inhabitants of the village took an active part in the Cretan Revolution of 1866 and fought in the National Resistance.
External links
Detailed historical data
References
TEI of Piraeus Archived 2007-10-10 at Wayback Machine, Heraklion Prefecture, Agia Varvara
Etymology
Bibliography
Heraklion and its Prefecture, Heraklion Prefecture Publication
| Municipal unit Rouvas |
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| Community Gergeri |
| Apomarma (Απομαρμά, τα) |
| Gergeri (Γέργερη, η) |
| Kardamiana (Καρδαμιανά, τα) |
| Mastrachiana (Μαστραχιανά, τα) |
| Raptis (Ράπτης, ο) |
| Tzaniana (Τζανιανά, τα) |
| Psalida (Ψαλίδα, η) |
| Community Nyvritos |
| Δρόσοι, οι |
| Nyvritos (Νύβριτος, η) |
| Community Panasos |
| Panasos (Πανασός, ο) |
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