Administrative Region : Crete
Regional unit : Chania
Daratsos (Δαράτσος ) Chania
Daratsos or Ntaratsos is a village in the municipality of Chania in the prefecture of the same name, in western Crete. According to the 2011 census, it has 4,732 inhabitants. It is located 4.5 kilometers southwest of Chania at an altitude of 70 meters. It is divided into Upper and Lower Daratsos and belongs to the municipal unit of Nea Kydonia. In Daratsos are the organized beaches of Chryssi Akti, Agioi Apostoli and Kato Daratsos. The short distance from Chania has helped the tourist development of the area, which has experienced rapid growth[1].
The beach of Agioi Apostoli
History
The name comes from the surname of the settler, the Daratsos family, a noble family from Chania.[2] During the 1821 Revolution, the Cretan-Turkish-inhabited Daratsos became a battlefield between Greek revolutionaries and Ottoman forces[3]. The settlement is mentioned in the Egyptian census of 1834 as Darazús.
In 1881, it was part of the municipality of Perivolia and had a population of 328 inhabitants, of whom 174 were Greek and the remaining 154 Cretan-Turkish[2][4]. In 1894, according to an estimate by the Greek army officer Nikostratos Kalomenopoulos, the village was inhabited by 37 Greek families and ten Turkish families[5]. On the contrary, in 1900, during the census of the Cretan State, the majority of the population was Cretan-Turkish[6].
In 1920 it was referred to as Daratsos with a population of 260. Administratively it belonged to the Municipality of Chania[2] where it remained until 1936 when it was annexed to the community of Galatas, while in 1943 it became the seat of the community of Daratsos. In 1991 the settlements of Kato Daratsos and Makry Toichos[7] were annexed to Daratsos.
Censuses
Census 1881 1900 1920 1928 1940 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011
Population 328[4] 396[6] 260[2] 419[3] 502[8] 475[8] 438[8] 376[8] 380[8] 2103[8] 3209 4732[9]
References
Daratsos
Spanakis, Stergios (1993). Towns and villages of Crete through the ages, volume B. Heraklion: Graphic Arts G. Detorakis. p. 586.
Modern Encyclopedia of Eleftheroudakis, volume 7, p. 281.
Crete Human Geography, volume B', Patris newspaper insert, February 2008, p. 130.
Crete Human Geography, B', 2008, p. 149.
Crete Human Geography, B', 2008, p. 163.
Daratsos N. Chania Administrative changes of settlements of the OTA EETAA
Stamatelatos Michael - Vamva Stamatelatou Fotini, Geographical Dictionary of Greece, TA NEA, 2012, volume A, p. 181.
"Detailed data of the 2011 census for the prefecture of Chania". Archived from the original on October 15, 2014. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
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