Administrative Region : Crete
Regional unit : Chania
Kamisiana (Καμισιανά ) Chania
Kamisiana is a village and the seat of the homonymous community of the municipality of Platanias in the regional unit of Chania, Crete. It belonged to the Kissamos District. It is located 20 km west of the city of Chania at an altitude of 30 m.[1].
General Information
During the Ottoman census of 1881, Kamisiana, which at that time belonged to the Kissamos district, was a purely Greek village with a population of 283 inhabitants[2]. Correspondingly, in 1894, the Greek army officer, Nikolaos Kalomenopoulos, reports that 30 Greek families lived in the settlement[3]. According to the 1900 census conducted by the Cretan State, Kamisiana was inhabited by 336 people[4].
After the liberation of Crete, it remained administratively in the Kissamos province, being the seat of the homonymous community to which the village of Rapaniana also belonged. During the interwar period, the settlement produced oil, wine, grain and livestock products[5].
In 1957, the settlement was renamed Elaionas but in 1965 it regained its original name[6]. Ecclesiastically, Kamisiana falls within the boundaries of the diocese of Kissamos and Selinos. The central church of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary is a building from 1950[7].
Population Censuses
Census 1881 1900 1913 1928 1940 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011
Population 283[2] 336[4] 488[8] 283[5] ; ; 273[9] ; ; 435[10] 540[11] 557[1]
Administrative data
See: Community of Kamisiana
They are officially mentioned in 1925 in the Government Gazette 27A - 31/01/1925 as being the seat of the newly founded community of the same name.[12] According to the 2011 census, 557 residents were registered.
References
Creta Voice:Detailed data from the 2011 census for the prefecture of Chania Archived 2014-10-15 at the Wayback Machine..
Crete Anthropogeography, Patris newspaper insert, February 2008, volume B', p. 130.
Crete Anthropogeography, 2008, volume B', p. 150.
Crete Anthropogeography, 2008, volume B', p. 164.
Modern Encyclopedia Eleftheroudakis, volume 13th, p. 166.
Administrative changes of settlements of local governments.
Parish of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, Kamisiana [dead link].
Kingdom of Greece, Ministry of National Economy, Directorate of Statistics, Census of the inhabitants of the new provinces of Greece in the year 1913, p. 76.
Modern Encyclopedia Eleftheroudakis, volume 9, supplement, p. 53.
Official Gazette of the Government of the Hellenic Republic, issue two, December 6, 1993, issue no. 882, p. 9617.
Census 2001, p. 328.
«EETAA-Administrative Changes of Settlements». www.eetaa.gr. Retrieved on April 8, 2022.
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