Administrative Region : Crete
Regional unit : Rethymno
Kato Rodakino (Κάτω Ροδάκινον ) Rethymno
Kato Rodakino (officially Kato Rodakinon) is a village in the Community of Rodakino in the Municipality of Agios Vasilios, in the Regional Unit of Rethymno, Crete. According to the 2011 census, it has 117 inhabitants. It is 42 kilometres (26 mi) from Rethymno and is built at an altitude of 120 metres (390 ft).[2]
Etymology
It is not known where the village got its name from. The first version states that the area was dry and the fact that a peach tree grew there made a great impression and was reflected in the toponym. The second version states that the horizon of the village is shaped like a peach. A third version states that it comes from the rosy-red color of the inhabitants' skin due to the Sun. Another version states that the name comes from the ancient toponym Rikinthos, which referred to the torrent that forms the gorge between Ano and Kato Rodakino.[3] Stergios Spanakis points out that the surname Rodakino is recorded in 14th-century contracts in Crete, and thus the name of the village may derive from the surname of the first settlers.[2]
Historical evidence
Remains of a Minoan settlement have been excavated at the site of Kastellos.[4] It is not known when the two villages were built. In their place there used to be the villages of Kourkoulos, Palio Chorio, Panagia and Ai-Lias, which were probably destroyed in the early years of the Turkish occupation or by pirates. According to tradition, Rodakino was settled by an old resident of the area who had fled to Mani around 1600 and returned with his children and built the village.[3] The village is mentioned in the Ottoman census of 1659 as Rodakino, with 26 houses.[2]
In the census of 1834, which was organized by the Egyptians, the village is mentioned as Rodakino (meaning the Upper and Lower together) and had a purely Christian population and 45 families lived in it.[2] In the census of 1881, Rodakino belonged to the municipality of Foinikos and had a purely Christian population, 376 residents. In the census of 1900, it had 468 residents. In the 1920 census, Ano and Kato Rodakino were listed separately for the first time, with Ano Rodakino serving as the seat of the rural municipality of Rodakino.[2] In 1925, Kato Rodakino was annexed to the community of Rodakino. In 1940, the two villages were listed in the census as one, under the name Rodakino, but from 1951 they were again separate settlements. The community of Rodakino was preserved until the Kapodistrian administrative division, when the village was annexed to the Municipality of Finikas.[5]
During World War II, Allied ships and submarines moored in the bay south of the village, which transported munitions to the guerrillas. After the murder of a German, the Germans proceeded on 20 August 1943 to burn Rodakino and execute the inhabitants of Rodakino.[3]
Population censuses
Detailed demographic development of the village according to the censuses:
Census 1900 1920 1928 1940 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011
Population[2] 468 170 109 431 168 208 190 167 165 117
Points of interest
In the village are the churches of Agios Georgios, Profitis Elias and Agios Antonios, at the location of Kourkoulos is the church of Agios Georgios and at the top of Mount Kryoneritis, at an altitude of 1,312 meters, is the church of the Holy Spirit.[3] There is a stone bridge between Ano and Kato Rodakino. The bridge was built in 1908 and its cost was estimated at 5,900 drachmas. The bridge was designed to be 4 meters wide and 6 meters wide. The bridge carried traffic to Sfakia until 2013, when a new bridge was opened.[6]
On the road between Ano and Kato Rodakino there is a junction to the beaches of the area, such as Korakas beach, Polyrizos beach and Agia Marina beach, which is the longest.[3]
References
(Greek) Database of the Hellenic Statistical Authority.
Spanakis, Stergios (1993). Cities and villages of Crete through the ages, volume 2. Heraklion: Graphic Arts G. Detorakis. p. 684.
"Rodakino". www.agios-vasilios.gr. Municipality of Agios Vasilios. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
«ΥΑ ΥΠΟ/ΑΡΧ/Α1/Φ25/65153/2867/21-12-1993 - ΦΕΚ 86/Β/10-2-1994». listedmonuments.culture.gr. Archived from the original on 2 December 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
«K. Rodakinou (Rethymno)». Administrative Changes of Municipalities and Communities - Detailed. EETAA-Hellenic Company for Local Development and Local Government S.A. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
«Bridge-monument of the year 1908 in Rodakino». madeincreta.gr. 27 April 2013. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
| Municipal unit Foinikas |
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| Community Agios Vasilios |
| Agios Vasileios (Άγιος Βασίλειος, ο) |
| Community Agios Ioannis Agiou Vasileiou |
| Agios Ioannis (Άγιος Ιωάννης, ο) |
| Kali Sykia (Καλή Συκέα) |
| Kanevos (Κάνεβος) |
| Community Agkoulesiana |
| Agkouseliana (Αγκουσελιανά, τα) |
| Παλαιόλουτρα, τα |
| Community Asomatos |
| Asomatos (Ασώματος, ο) |
| Κάτω Μονή Πρέβελη, η |
| Πίσω Μονή Πρέβελη, η |
| Community Koxare |
| Atsipades (Ατσιπάδες, αι) |
| Katsogrida (Κατσογρίδα) |
| Koxare (Κοξαρέ) |
| Pale (Παλέ) |
| Community Lefkogeia |
| Αμμούδι, το |
| Gianniou (Γιαννιού, το) |
| Lefkogeia (Λευκόγεια, τα) |
| Σχοινάρια, τα |
| Community Mariou |
| Δαμνόνι, το |
| Mariou (Μαριού, το) |
| Palaia Taverna (Παλαιά Ταβέρνα) |
| Community Myrthios |
| Kalypso (Καλυψώ) |
| Kampos (Κάμπος, ο) |
| Kokkina Chorafia (Κόκκινα Χωράφια, τα) |
| Myrthianos Plakias (Μυρθιανός Πλακιάς, ο) |
| Myrthios (Μύρθιος) |
| Foinikas (Φοίνιξ, ο) |
| Community Rodakino |
| Ano Rodakino (Άνω Ροδάκινον, το) |
| Kato Rodakino (Κάτω Ροδάκινον, το) |
| Κόρακας, ο |
| Polyrizos (Πολύριζος) |
| Community Sellia |
| Plakias (Πλακιάς, ο) |
| Sellia (Σελλία, τα) |
| Σούδα, η |
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