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Rethymno travel guide, guidebook and phrasebooks, download .pdf chapters on Lonely Planet.
Rethymno is a city of approximately 40,000 people in Greece, the capital of Rethymno Prefecture in the island of Crete. It was built in antiquity (ancient Rhithymna and Arsinoe), 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. This region as a whole is rich with ancient history, most notably through the Minoan civilisation centred at Kydonia east of Rethymno. Rethymno itself began a period of growth when the Venetian conquerors of the island decided to put an intermediate commercial station between Heraklion and Chania, 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. As part of the Crete, the town was also captured by Turks in 17th century and ruled more than three centuries. Turkish version of Rethymnon is Resmo. It was sanjak centre in Crete (Girit) Province during Ottoman rule. During the invasion of Crete, the Battle of Rethymno was fought between German Paratroopers and Australian, Greek and Cretan forces. Although initially unsuccessful, the Germans won the battle after receiving reinforcements from Maleme. Today its main income is from tourism, many new facilities having been built in the past 20 years ... more on Wikipedia.The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
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