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APLADIANA (Village) KOULOUKONA
AXOS (Village) KOULOUKONA
The village of Axos is 46km southeast of Rethimnon on the Rethimnon
- Panormon - Perama - Mourtzana - Axos - Anogia road. Axos is above a fertile
valley north of Psiloritis where there is an abundance of water; a public fountain
is still in use dating from the Middle Ages. Axos was an important ancient Greek
city probably built at the time that the Dorians came to Crete (around 1000 B.C.).
Its harbour was in Bali and there was a large wall around the city. Axos was also
important during Byzantine times as the large number of Byzantine churches in
the area testify. There were 46 churches in the area and nine of them survive
today.
This text is cited Dec 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains image.
CHELIANA (Village) KOULOUKONA
Heliana is a village 41km east of Rethimnon between the Psiloritis
and the Kouloukonas Mountains. In the village of Heliana there is the Byzantine
church of Agios Georgios.
ZONIANA (Village) KOULOUKONA
The village of Zoniana is 47km southeast of Rethimnon on the Rethimnon
- Panormon - Perama - Mourtzana - Axos road. Near the village of Zoniana is the
Spileo Sendoni (Sendoni Cave).
AXOS (Ancient city) KOULOUKONA
Axus (Axos: Axus), a city of Crete (Herod. iv. 154), which is identified
with Oaxos (Steph. B. s. v.), situated on a river (rapidum Cretae veniemus Oaxen,
Virg. Ecl. 166), which, according to Vibius Sequester (Flum. p. 15), gave its
name to Axus. According to the Cyrenaean traditions, the Theraean Battus, their
founder, was the son of a damsel named Phronimne, the daughter of Etearchus, king
of this city (Herod. l. c.). Mr. Pashley (Travels, vol. i. p. 143, foll.) discovered
the ancient city in the modern village of Axus, near Mt. Ida. The river of Axus
flows past the village. Remains belonging to the so-called Cyclopean or Pelasgiewalls
were found, and in the church a piece of white marble with a sepulchral inscription
in the ancient Doric Greek of the island. On another inscription was a decree
of a common assembly of the Cretans, an instance of the well known Syncretism,
as it was called. The coins of Axus present types of Zeus and Apollo, as might
be expected in a city situated on the slopes of Mt. Ida, and the foundation of
which was, by one of the legends, ascribed to a son of Apollo. The situation answers
to one of the etymologies of the name: it was called Axus because the place is
precipitous, that word being used by the Cretans in the same sense that the other
Greeks assigned to agmos, a crag. (Hoeck, Kreta, vol. i. p. 397.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
VINI (Ancient city) KOULOUKONA
Eth. Benaios. A town of Crete, in the neighbourhood of Gortyn, to which it was
subject, only known as the birthplace of the poet Rhianus.
AXOS (Ancient city) KOULOUKONA
(Oaxos), called Axus (Axos) by Herodotus. A town in the interior of Crete on the river Oaxes.
ZONIANA (Village) KOULOUKONA
AXOS (Ancient city) KOULOUKONA
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