Rodia

Local community Rodia Τοπική Κοινότητα Ροδιάς
Basic data
Country	Greece
region	Crete
Regional district	Heraklion
local community	Malevizi
Parish	Gazi
Geographic coordinates	35 ° 22 ′  N , 25 ° 1 ′  E Coordinates: 35 ° 22 ′  N , 25 ° 1 ′  E
Height above d. M.	300  m
surface	21.6 km²
Residents	1785 (2011)
Population density	82.64 inhabitants / km²
LAU-1 code no.	910704
Local division	8 settlements

Rodia ( Greek Ροδιά ( f. Sg. ), Formerly Ρογδιά - Rogdia ) is a local community on Crete . It belongs to the Gazi parish of Malevizi parish .

Annunciation Church in Rodia

Venetian mansion

The Church of the Annunciation is dated to 1553. Presumably at the same time the adjoining mansion of a Venetian patrician family was built . It has arched windows with pilasters and a curved keel-arched window typical of the Venetian Gothic.

structure

The local community is formed from the settlements:

Rodia (Ροδιά), 797 pop. Agios Dimitrios (Άγιος Δημήτριος), 53 pop. Kapetanaki Metochi (Καπετανάκι Μετόχι), 86 pop. Savatiana Monastery (Μονή Σαββαθιανών), 18 pop. Linoperamata (Λινοπεράματα), 216 pop. Palaiokastro (Παλαιόκαστρο), 255 pop. Pantanassa (Παντάνασσα), 266 pop. Plaitis (Πλαϊτης), 94 pop.

Sources of income are sheep breeding and fruit and vegetable growing.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results of the 2011 census at the National Statistical Service of Greece (ΕΛ.ΣΤΑΤ) ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Excel document, 2.6 MB)
2. ^ Christian Ottersbach: Venetian villas and mansions on Crete , in: Burgen und Schlösser , magazine for castle research and monument preservation, ed. from the European Castle Institute of the German Castle Association , 1/2017, pp. 17–31, there 22