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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Retimo Latin: Dioecesis Rhithymnensis) was a Roman Catholic diocese located in the town of Rethymo (modern day Rethymno) on the north coast of the island of Crete. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was established around 1250 AD.
Very shortly after the town of Rethymno was conquered by the Ottomans, they demolished the church and built the mosque, dedicated to Sultan Ibrahim I in 1648, with a large, imposing dome. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The complaed became property of the city of Rethymno in 1971; it was restored between 2002 and 2004 by the Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, and ...
[1] [3] Another date of erection suggested is 1683. [3] Today it is preserved in its entirety in good condition, save for its minaret, of which only the base survives. [ 2 ] It has been restored by the Greek Archaeological Service , and is being considered to be made into a museum about the Ottoman architecture of Crete.
Capital of the new municipality is Rethymno. When discussing Myli we refer both to a village built in the early 1970s (“new Myli”) and to two deserted small villages with the same name (or referred as “ano Myli” and “Kato Myli”), remains of which can be found within the Gorge of Myli.
On 23 September 2024, HRT announced that the filming of the first season had been finished. [11] Croatian web portal Dnevno reports that the total expenses for the production of the first season, which consists of ten episodes, amounted to 915,793.25€. [16] On 19 February 2025, HRT announced that the series has been renewed for a second season.
After the conquest of Rethymno by the Ottomans, the monastery was turned into a mosque, which was known as the Mosque of Gazi Hüseyin Pasha or the Neradje Mosque. Following the 1923 population exchange between Turkey and Greece and the departure of the Muslim population of Crete in 1924, the building was turned into a music school .
It consists of the unification of the pre-existing municipalities Arkadi, Lappa, Rethymno and Nikiforos Fokas of Rethymno Prefecture. The extent of the new municipality is 396.256 km 2 (152.995 sq mi), [3] and it had a population of 57,216 inhabitants at the 2021 census. [2] The seat of the new municipality is the town Rethymno. [4]
The oldest historical reference to the mosque can be dated back to 1654, just a few years after the Ottoman conquest of the town; a document from 1671 mentions its dependence on the Valide Sultan Mosque in Bahçe Kapısı, in Constantinople (now Istanbul). [1]