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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.
After the monastery's conversion into mosque in the seventeenth century, a dome and a minaret was added to it by the Ottoman Turks. [4]In the area there is also a fountain topped with a dome, which has two sides: one side facing Arkadiou Street, and the other the courtyard of the mosque.
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 .
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 ...
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 Rethymno prefecture (Greek: Νομός Ρεθύμνου or Ρεθύμνης) was created while Crete was still an autonomous state, and was preserved after the island joined Greece in 1913. As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the Rethymno regional unit was created out of the former prefecture.
The Fortezza of Rethymno has an irregular plan, and its walls have a total length of 1,307 m (4,288 ft). The walls contain the following demi-bastions: [1] St Nicolas Bastion – the demi-bastion at the east end of the fortress. It contains a Venetian-era building which was possibly originally a storehouse or laboratory. [7]
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.