Ano Viannos
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Local community Ano Viannos Τοπική Κοινότητα Άνω Βιάννου (Ἀνω Βιάννος) |
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| Country |
 Greece
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| region | Crete | ||
| Regional district | Heraklion | ||
| local community | Viannos | ||
| Geographic coordinates | 35 ° 3 ' N , 25 ° 25' E | ||
| Height above d. M. |
483 m (average) |
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| surface | 29.214 km² | ||
| Residents | 984 (2011) | ||
| Population density | 33.68 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Local division | 7 settlements | ||
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Ano Viannos ( Greek Ἀνω Βιάννος ( f. Sg. ), Also Ano Vianos ) is a Greek village in the south of the island of Crete with 774 inhabitants. It forms a local community with some surrounding villages, which is also the seat of the municipal administration of the Viannos municipality in the Heraklion regional district .
location
Ano Viannos is located on the southern side of the Dikti Mountains at an average altitude of 560 m above sea level , about 65 km southeast of Heraklion and 40 km from Ierapetra .
history
On the slope west of Ano Viannos there are ruins of ancient Biannos or Biennus. According to legend, it is here that the aloids captured the god of war Ares - the city god of Biennus. Biennus minted its own coins in the 3rd century BC.
In the Byzantine-Venetian period, today's Ano Viannos was an important city with two forts. In the fight against the Turks it was destroyed in 1822 and 1866; in the 19th century it was temporarily a bishopric.
In September 1943, the site was largely destroyed as part of the “Viannos Massacre” , in which more than 400 people were murdered by German troops, and rebuilt after the war.
Personalities
The Cretan journalist and novelist Ioannis Kondilakis (1862-1920), whose stories served as the basis for several films, was born in Ano Viannos.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Results of the 2011 census at the National Statistical Service of Greece (ΕΣΥΕ) ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Excel document, 2.6 MB)
- ↑ Hartmut Beister: Ano Viannos. In: Siegfried Lauffer (Ed.): Greece. Lexicon of Historic Places. CH Beck, Munich 1989, p. 117 f.
- ↑ David Böcking: Portrait of a Greek Nazi Victim: The German Curse. In: Spiegel Online . July 19, 2015, accessed October 7, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.imdb.de/name/nm1487162/