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Mires (Greek Μοίρες (f. pl. ) ), With 6,379 inhabitants, the largest city of the fertile Messara on Crete. It is the administrative seat of the municipality of Phaistos. The weekly market of the agricultural town of Mires is the largest in the region. The city is located on a busy highway, which crosses Crete from Heraklion to Tymbaki on the south coast in north-south direction.

By 2010, Mires was an independent municipality, which included approximately 10,600 with suburbs inhabitants in an area of 182 km ², raised in 1949 for the borough ( dimos ) and was last 1997 considerably increased by incorporation of many neighboring communities. On January 1, Mires went into the newly created municipality on Phaistos, where it has since formed one of three municipal districts.

For area of Mires heard both the Cape Lithino (Greek Ακρωτήρι Λίθινο ) and the small harbor town of Kali Limenes ( Καλοί Λιμένες ), the most southerly of the island of Crete. The Agiofarango Gorge, which opens out between the Cape and the harbor to the Libyan Sea, has become a popular destination for day trips. Because of the remoteness of the gorge they had become the home of Christian hermits from the early Middle Ages, which supposedly gathered to worship in the located at the bottom of the canyon chapel of Agios Andonis only once a year. The last phase of construction of the chapel - the transept - was probably completed in the 14th or 15th century.

Structure

The present district of Mires is divided into the following localities ( Greek name and population of the census in 2011 in brackets):

• Mires ( 6496 )
• Alithini ( η Αληθινή, 142)
• Andiskari ( το Αντισκάρι, 579 )
• Galia ( η Γαλιά, 805 )
• Kastelli ( το Καστέλλι, 328)
• Kouses ( ο Κουσές, 155)
• Peri ( το Πέρι, 71)
• Petrokefali ( το Πετροκεφάλι, 790)
• Pigaidakia ( τα Πηγαϊδάκια, 454 )
• Pombia ( η Πόμπια, 1061 )
• Roufas ( ο Ρουφάς, 130)
• Skourvoula ( τα Σκούρβουλα, 423 )