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Rethymno (Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
: ????µ??, , also Rethimno, Rethymnon, Réthymnon, and Rhíthymnos), a city of approximately 40,000 people, is the capital of Rethymno Prefecture
Rethymno Prefecture

Rethymno is a Prefectures of Greece in the island of Crete. Its capital is the city of Rethymno.Today its main income is tourism. The countryside of the prefecture is also based economically on agriculture and herding....
 in the island of Crete
Crete

Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the List of islands in the Mediterranean largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km? ....
. It was built in antiquity (ancient Rhithymna
Rhithymna

Rhithymna or Rithymna or Rhithymnia , was an ancient town of Crete, Greece, which is mentioned by Ptolemy and Pliny the Elder as the first town on the north coast to the east of Amphimalla, and is spoken of as a Cretan city by Stephanus of Byzantium, in whose text its name is written Rhithymnia; Stephanus gives the city's ethnony...
 and Arsinoe
Arsinoe (Crete)

Arsinoe was an ancient city of Crete assigned to Lyctus, adjacent to the older city of Rhithymna. Berkelius supposes that an error had crept into the text, and that for we should read ....
), even though was never a competitive Minoan center. It was, however, strong enough to mint its own coins and maintain urban growth. One of these coins is today depicted as the crest of the town with two dolphins in a circle.

region as a whole is rich with ancient history, most notably through the Minoan
Minoan

Minoan may refer to the following:*The Minoan civilization**The Eteocretan language**The script known as Linear A**Minoan eruption**Minoan pottery...
 civilisation centred at Kydonia west of Rethymno.






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Rethymno (Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
: ????µ??, , also Rethimno, Rethymnon, Réthymnon, and Rhíthymnos), a city of approximately 40,000 people, is the capital of Rethymno Prefecture
Rethymno Prefecture

Rethymno is a Prefectures of Greece in the island of Crete. Its capital is the city of Rethymno.Today its main income is tourism. The countryside of the prefecture is also based economically on agriculture and herding....
 in the island of Crete
Crete

Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the List of islands in the Mediterranean largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km? ....
. It was built in antiquity (ancient Rhithymna
Rhithymna

Rhithymna or Rithymna or Rhithymnia , was an ancient town of Crete, Greece, which is mentioned by Ptolemy and Pliny the Elder as the first town on the north coast to the east of Amphimalla, and is spoken of as a Cretan city by Stephanus of Byzantium, in whose text its name is written Rhithymnia; Stephanus gives the city's ethnony...
 and Arsinoe
Arsinoe (Crete)

Arsinoe was an ancient city of Crete assigned to Lyctus, adjacent to the older city of Rhithymna. Berkelius supposes that an error had crept into the text, and that for we should read ....
), even though was never a competitive Minoan center. It was, however, strong enough to mint its own coins and maintain urban growth. One of these coins is today depicted as the crest of the town with two dolphins in a circle.

History

This region as a whole is rich with ancient history, most notably through the Minoan
Minoan

Minoan may refer to the following:*The Minoan civilization**The Eteocretan language**The script known as Linear A**Minoan eruption**Minoan pottery...
 civilisation centred at Kydonia west of Rethymno. Rethymno itself began a period of growth when the Venetian
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
 conquerors of the island decided to put an intermediate commercial station between Heraklion
Heraklion

Heraklion or Iraklion , is the largest city and capital city of Crete. It is also the fourth largest city in Greece. Its name is also spelled Herakleion, a transliteration of the ancient Greek and Katharevousa name, , or Iraklio, among other variants....
 and Chania
Chania

Chani? is the second largest city of Crete and the capital of the Chania Prefecture. It lies along the north coast of the island, about 70 km west of Rethymno and 145 km west of Heraklion....
, acquiring its own bishop and nobility in the process. Today's old town (palia poli) is almost entirely built by Venetians. It is one of the best preserved old towns in Crete.

The town still maintains its old aristocratic appearance, with its buildings dating from the 16th century, arched doorways, stone staircases, Byzantine and Hellenic-Roman remains, small Venetian harbor and narrow streets. The Venetian Loggia today houses the information office of the ministry of culture. The Wine Festival is held there annually at the beginning of July. Another festival is held on 7-8th of November, in memory of the destruction of Arkadi
Arkadi

Arkadi is a municipality in the Rethymno Prefecture, Crete, Greece. Population 5,644 . The seat of the municipality is in Adele....
 Monastery.

Rethymnon Harbour At Night
It has a large Venetian castle called the Fortezza, one of the best preserved castles in Crete
Crete

Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the List of islands in the Mediterranean largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km? ....
. Other monuments include the Neratze mosque (St. Katherine's Catholic Church), the Great Gate (megali porta, Porta Guerra), the Piazza Rimondi (Rimmondi square) and the Venetian Loggia. Today its main income is from tourism, with facilities that have been built the past 20 years. Agriculture is also notable, especially for olive oil and other Mediterranean products. It is also the base of the Philosophical School and the University Library of the University of Crete
University of Crete

'The University of Crete' is the principal higher education institution on the island of Crete, Greece.The University of Crete, is a multi-disciplinary, research- oriented institution, located in the cities of Rethymnon and Heraklion....
 and the School of Social and Political Sciences having 8000 students on its University Campus per annum at "Galos", where the Academic Institute of Mediterranean Studies is situated.

Notable people of Rethymno

  • Marcus Musurus
    Marcus Musurus

    Marcus Musurus was a Greeks scholar and philosopher born in Rethymno, Crete. The son of a rich merchant, he became at an early age a pupil of John Lascaris in Venice....
     (1470-1517) scholar and philosopher
  • Ahmed Resmî Efendi
    Ahmed Resmî Efendi

    Ahmed Resm? Efendi , also called Ahmed bin Ibrahim Girid? , was a Cretan Turks statesman, diplomat and author of the Ottoman Empire in the 18th century....
     Ottoman statesman, author and ambassador
  • Nick the Greek
    Nick the Greek

    Nicholas Andreas "Nick the Greek" Dandolos was a professional gambler and high roller.Dandolos was the son of wealthy parents. He attended the Greek Evangelical College and earned a degree in philosophy....
    , poker player
  • Nikolaos Sifounakis
    Nikolaos Sifounakis

    Nikolaos Sifounakis is a Greece politician, former Minister for the Aegean and Island Policy and ex-member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the Panhellenic Socialist Movement ticket and sat with the Party of European Socialists group....
    , politician, Member of the European Parliament, *1949


See also

  • Amari
    Amari

    Amari is a province on the island of Crete in Greece. Much of the history of Crete took place near the Psiloriti Range within Amari. One of the major geographic features of Amari is the Amari Valley, a landform of high elevation known for olive cultivation....
  • List of settlements in the Rethymno prefecture
    List of settlements in the Rethymno prefecture

    This is a list of settlements in the Rethymno Prefecture, Greece....
  • Plakias
    Plakias

    Plakias is a village on the south coast of the Greece island of Crete, in the Rethymno Prefecture, about 30 kilometres south of the city of Rethymno....
    , a village in Rethymno prefecture
  • Xiro Horio
    Xiro horio

    Xiro Chorio , a hamlet of approximately 170 residents, which is part of the city of Rethymno, capital of Rethymno Prefecture in the island of Crete, Greece....
    , a hamlet in Rethymno prefecture
  • Apodoulou, an archaeological site in Rethymno prefecture
  • History of Crete
    History of Crete

    The History of Crete encompasses the ancient Minoan civilization, which used its own system of script, Linear A and B. After this civilisation was destroyed by natural catastrophes, Crete developed an Ancient Greece-influenced organization of city states, then successively became part of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Venetian...
  • Cretan Turks
    Cretan Turks

    The Cretan Turks , Turco-Cretans , or Cretan Muslims were the Muslim inhabitants of Crete and their descendants in Turkey.After the Ottoman Empire conquest of Crete , Turkish people colonization and a high rate of local conversions makes the island a unique case in Ottoman history Some sources prefer to use the term Cretan Mus...
    , many of whom lived in Rethymno until 1922
  • Battle of Crete
    Battle of Crete

    The Battle of Crete was a battle during World War II on the Greek island of Crete. The battle began on the morning of 20 May 1941, when Nazi Germany launched an Airborne forces of Crete under the code-name Unternehmen Merkur ....


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