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Prefecture: Heraclion
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Amourgeles
Amourgeles is located at a distance of 38 km from Heraklion and is built on the road axis Alagni-Panorama-Stironas-Amourgeles, in the east side of Amigdalokefalo hill.
We meet for the first time the name of the village as Amurgielle in a document of the Venetian archives. Since then it is recorded in all the consequent censuses.
In the period of Ottoman occupation, the village had exclusively Muslim residents and seems to have been one of those villages whose inhabitants were forced to become Muslims in order to keep their properties.
With the exchange of populations between Turkey and Greece that took place in 1922, and the abandonment of the village by its Turkish population, many refugees from Asia Minor were installed here, bringing their own cultural habits and way of life with them. They cultivated vines making the production of raisins and grapes the main product of the village.
Today Amourgeles produces also olive oil, livestock, and horticulture in the irrigated gardens and fields of the village from the natural springs that are scattered all around the countryside.
A river tributary, Nispitas, one of the main streams of Anapodiaris River, accumulates most of its water from here and from the surrounding countryside.
Text: www.arkalochori.gr
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The settlement is Armanogia in the municipal district of Metaxohori located at an altitude of 380 meters and distance from Heraklion 38 km southwest a short distance from the monastery of Epanosifi.
POPULATION: 123 (Census 2001)ALTITUDE: 380m.DISTANCE FROM HERAKLION: 38km.Recommended routes: A)-Heraklion Knossos-Spilia-Kounavoi-Peza-Kalloni-Ag. Vasileios-Partheni-Houdetsi Armanogeia. B) Heraklion-Skalani-Peza-Kalloni-St-Basil-Partheni-Houdetsi Armanogeia. (Via the new national road Heraklion-Viannos). C)-Heraklion Knossos-Spilia-Patsides-Arhanes-Vathipetro-Partheni-Armanogeia.
This settlement like many others in the central and southern prefecture of Heraklion claim the credit for its rich music tradition. Many singers, lyre-players and Cretan rhyme-makers (mantinades/mantinadologoi) masters of the Cretan dialect, have their origin in that region.
The plain in the region provides fertile soil, which is cultivated by the people and produces wine grapes and olive oil without coming behind on livestock products. A large and important project for - and not only - Armanogeia is the construction of the dam that was completed recently.
The amount of water is enough to gather the crops and to maintain the newly established flora and fauna. Hundreds of local and migratory birds rush here all day and along with the dominant inhabitant, the turtle, give a special beauty to the landscape.www.endoxora-irakleiou.gr
POPULATION: 123 (Census 2001)ALTITUDE: 380m.DISTANCE FROM HERAKLION: 38km.Recommended routes: A)-Heraklion Knossos-Spilia-Kounavoi-Peza-Kalloni-Ag. Vasileios-Partheni-Houdetsi Armanogeia. B) Heraklion-Skalani-Peza-Kalloni-St-Basil-Partheni-Houdetsi Armanogeia. (Via the new national road Heraklion-Viannos). C)-Heraklion Knossos-Spilia-Patsides-Arhanes-Vathipetro-Partheni-Armanogeia.
This settlement like many others in the central and southern prefecture of Heraklion claim the credit for its rich music tradition. Many singers, lyre-players and Cretan rhyme-makers (mantinades/mantinadologoi) masters of the Cretan dialect, have their origin in that region.
The plain in the region provides fertile soil, which is cultivated by the people and produces wine grapes and olive oil without coming behind on livestock products. A large and important project for - and not only - Armanogeia is the construction of the dam that was completed recently.
The amount of water is enough to gather the crops and to maintain the newly established flora and fauna. Hundreds of local and migratory birds rush here all day and along with the dominant inhabitant, the turtle, give a special beauty to the landscape.www.endoxora-irakleiou.gr
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