Administrative Region : Crete
Regional unit : Rethymno
Livadia (Λιβάδια) Rethymno
Livadia is a village and seat of the homonymous local community of the Municipality of Mylopotamos in the Regional Unit of Rethymno, Crete.[1]
Geography
Livadia is located towards the border with the Regional Unit of Heraklion, 30 km. E.-SE. from Rethymno and 42 km. W.-SW. from Heraklion and at an altitude of 630-650 meters at the foot of Psiloritis [2]. According to the Kallikratis plan, together with Mariniana and Krana, they form the Community of Livadia, which falls under the municipal unit of Kouloukonas of the Municipality of Mylopotamos and, according to the 2011 census, as a community it has a population of 20,739, while as a settlement it has a population of 21,481[3]. It is one of the largest pastoral villages of Mylopotamos, while there is a production of raisins and home textiles, mainly for tourist consumption.
History
The Church of Agia Marina: the central church of the village.
Livadia was founded during the Venetian occupation in the 13th century. The Turks never inhabited the village, but they made many raids, in fact in some of them the residents managed to kill all the Turks. Then a pasha came with a large army, burned the village, but failed to exterminate the rebels (since the previous night they had escaped to the nearby mountain peaks).
The people of Livadi took part in the holocaust of the Arkadi Monastery in 1866 and in the Cretan revolution, one of the chieftains of Crete and chieftain of Mylopotamos, Yannis Sopasis or Kouvos, came from the village. In September 1868, at the end of the 1866 revolution, the General Assembly of Cretans signed a resolution in Livadia to the Great Powers, which requested, among other things, the establishment of an autonomous state. The people of Livadi also took part in the Balkan Wars, in World War I at the Battle of Skra, in the Greco-Italian War and in the national resistance for liberation from the Germans. Also at the location of Gournolakos, south of Livadia Mylopotamos, 32 men from the wider area and from Livadia were executed as a reprisal by the Nazis for the resistance. Francis Barokios, the prominent scholar of the Venetian rule, in his Description of the Island of Chanda, records for the first time in 1577 Livadia among the villages of Mylopotamos. A few years later, in 1583, Petros Kastrophylakas in the census of the villages and settlements of Crete, as well as the Venetian engineer Francis Vasilikata in 1630, mention Livadia with a population exceeding 650 inhabitants. It is not mentioned in the 1881 census and Stergios Spanakis believes that it is incorrectly listed as Livada in the municipality of Garazos with 473 inhabitants. The village is one of the few in Crete that shows an increase in population at the end of the 20th century.[4]
Population trend according to censuses:[4]
Census 1900 1920 1928 1940 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011 2021
Population 528 608 648 710 807 772 946 1,215 1,534[5] 1,473 1,481 1,436
Livadiotes
Dimitrios Kokkinos, mayor of Mylopotamos[6]
Georgios A. Vardiampasis[7] (1865/67-1957), revolutionary and chieftain
Manolis Chnaris: Member of Parliament for Rethymno (2023- )[8]
See also
Community of Livadia
References
Encyclopedia Nea Domii. 20. Athens: Tegopoulos - Maniateas. 1996. p. 104.
«Livadia RETHYMNO, Municipality of MYLOPOTAMO | buk.gr». buk.gr. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
«Official Gazette of results of PERMANENT population», p. 10887 (p. 413 of pdf)
Spanakis, Stergios (1993). Towns and villages of Crete through the ages, volume B. Heraklion: Graphic Arts G. Detorakis. p. 477.
Stamatelatos, Michael; Vamva-Stamatelatou, Fotini (2006). Geographical Dictionary of Greece. Athens: Hermes. p. 436. ISBN 9603201332.
"Greetings of the Mayor of Mylopotamos | Mayor | Municipality | Municipality of Mylopotamos". www.dimosmylopotamou.gr. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
Michaels Troulis, Athena Bernardou (eds.), 11th International Cretanological Conference. Rethymno, 21-27 October 2011, Historical and Folklore Society, Rethymno 2011, p. 439.
Region of Rethymno[dead link]
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