Melambes
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Melabes or Melambes () is a village in Rethymno regional unit, Crete, Greece.
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Place details
- Locality
- Μέλαμπες
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Κρήτης
- Country
- Ελλάς
- Population
- 0
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- Greece
- Population
- 591
- Official website
- www.melabes.gr
- Image
- Μέλαμπες 2793.jpg
- Dialing code
- 2832
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- located in/on physical feature
- Crete
- Commons category
- Melampes
- postal code
- 740 53
- native label
- Μέλαμπες
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Name
- Geography
- History
- Venetian Occupation
- Ottoman Occupation
- Cretan State
- Modern Era
- Culture
- Churches & Temples
- Sports
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Melabes or Melambes () is a village in Rethymno regional unit, Crete, Greece.
== Name == The meaning of the name Melambes is not yet confirmed. It has its origin in ancient Greek and is probably related to Ancient Lappa (region in Greece). According to tradition, the name represents the brightness of the sunrise in the region.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Melambes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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